Author: mrspock
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:01 am (GMT 0)

MikeA wrote:

mrspock wrote: MikeA wrote: Go with Pine, I used marine ply coated in linseed oil and within 3 months it was warping mouldy and ruined. Thank you for the tip. I think I will coat the exterior in one lcoat of raw linseed oil, and then one coat of uv-resistant exterior latex. Go with either or, as the latex paint wont stick with linseed oil under it, and the linseed would be a waste of time over the latex paint. 2 coats of Linseed and wax is the better option 20 parts linseed to 1 part wax, it will take a week to soak in per coat and give any sawn edges 3 coats

For asthetic reasons, I'm going to go with the Latex paint, with the goal of disguising my hive as a doghouse.


Is it acceptable to shingle a warre-style roof? I'm planning to build the roof in such a way that it projects a few inches over the hive on all sides, and then cover it with shingles - I expect this should go a long ways to keeping water out.

Any thoughts?

Author: BFG
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:25 pm (GMT 0)

Here's a plan of the garden:-



North is up. The buildings on the south are my house and garage. East is another building that's 20 foot high maybe, North is a neighbours garage and east is a public path, with a road next to that.

You can't really see from the plan view, but the back is a raised terrace, then there's a dwarf wall with a 5' fence on top and then the garage.

The yellow rectangles are possible sites.

Any suggestions?

Author: Gareth
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:11 am (GMT 0)

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Why do I need to get to the back? Can't I just take the roof off from the front?

Assuming that the entrances are on the front, you should always work the hive from the back or sides. If you stand in front of a hive, bees flying to and from the entrance will bump into you and show their irritation by 'sitting down' on you. In other words you'll get stung. At the side or back flying bees will ignore you (generally speaking).
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Author: mrnickmuss
Subject: Bee balm. Public liability
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:45 am (GMT 0)

Hi
I hope there is someone who has experience can help.
We as a family made various balms as Christmas presents, and gave them to friends and family, quite a few have come back to us and want to buy some to give to thier extended family and friends, this got us thinking.... could this be turned into a small cottage industry which my wife could do whilst our youngest is at preschool???
I understand that it is sensible to get public liability insurance, but does each product have to be tested? We are using a variety of essential oils as ingredients ,which I guess would have had to have been tested prior to me buying it.
The oils the same and shea butter too, the wax is a differnt matter it comes out of mine or friends hives and is not consistent.
Any thoughts would be appriciated.
Thanks

Author: MikeA
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:02 pm (GMT 0)

Go with Pine, I used marine ply coated in linseed oil and within 3 months it was warping mouldy and ruined.
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