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Aluminium tape to cover the cut edges and the whole lot given a couple of coats of Garden Shades renders PIR almost totally weatherproof...

noone in the UK, in their right minds wraps their hives. But what you should do is cut a piece of 50mm PIR (celotex) to fit snuglu...

According to our national news tonight we are dithering a bit rather than following America's lead but this may be because our new Prime...

Thank you. I often feel sadness, it is destructive emotion in big doses. However people in the frontline are in more hard conditions. I...

Good ... well done. You are probably overkilling it doing a sulphur burn monthly - if they are well strapped up and sealed then there...

Thank you for the detailed reply and recommendations . So to address point 8 , I have crush and strained the honey available from the...

Poly nuc, one frame of comb & bees, two frames of pollen & honey; dummy the rest of the space with a piece of PIR. Feed fondant (not...

There's a few 'early years lessons' you have learnt here ... Don't beat yourself up about it, it's disheartening and costly but what...

The majority of relatively vigorous adult bees do actually abscond* in most cases of varroa collapse. As the morale of the colony fades...

I was at the NHS and there was a piece about how glyphosate affects bees despite “common knowledge” that it doesn’t

Terrible idea .. with 100 bees it's pretty much doomed .. dummied down, well insulated and fed - 10 % chance but they might make it through.

I have a Katsu compact router it's a Makita look alike but has been very reliable ( I use it mounted hoizontally for decorative routing...

I do the same on any short run jobs, quicker than set up time and much easier to fine adjust for variable thickness. As for above table...

From experience .. the important bit of the router table is the router table insert and you want one that allows you to adjust the rise...

I can’t imagine how bad the situation really is. Ukraine is hurt, people are overwhelmed with emotions andgoing through very bad times...