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This is a crop from the "throne" of my compost toilet, made using the same stuff. No idea what the laminated surface is actually made...

Assuming I can crawl out of my pit sufficiently early tomorrow morning (I have had the lurgy since Saturday and am short of a fair bit...

Finished assembling the nuc UFEs earlier this week, adding a rim to vape through. Now I've moved on to roofs. One is a repair of a...

Clearly you've not been in a supermarket for a while :D James

Oh, hellfire! Have you any idea how many different figures are quoted for the size of a "bee space"? Especially after converting from...

Another issue may be that with the bees unable to access the real crownboard because of the correx, they'd not be able to propolise it...

Could be that he's running TBS hives, so the correx sits inside the top of the box? That might make it a pig to remove though. Or the...

I thought that ASHP heated a permanent store of water (like a heat bank) and that mains water was heated from that via a heat exchanger...

I'd need enough to floor the entire house :D James

Any kind of assistant might be helpful, but I suspect like many other beekeepers, to coin a phrase, "I work alone". James

And I imagine it's quite reassuring to know that you don't have varroa :D James

In theory, no, it doesn't. Whether it does in practice given that the seams are full of bees, I really don't know. James

I'd guess it's because the gaps over the top bars allow convection currents to form such that heat rises from the cluster, moves out...

If we carry on the way we are, that might yet happen :D James

My wife is just making a trial batch of green tomato and chile jam. Looks like it might be a good alternative to marrow (courgette)...