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The Warre ideal skep with base of 30cm and height of 80cm, comes out to a volume of 25 litres, assuming those are outer dimensions, and wall thickness of 1 inch. If wall thickness was negligable, you'd have a volume of 39 litres. Still surprises me what a difference that 1 inch of thickness makes.

I hope someone answers your question about average volume of a skep. I will point out some things that may be helpful: A skep about 20 inches diameter at the base and 20 inches tall, would be close to 53 litres internal volume, assuming those are outside dimensions and the skep walls are an...

Thanks for the welcome, this forum is fun to read. The woman who teaches the local beekeeping course taught that if the bees broke their winter cluster, they wouldn't go back into it again. She was against insulation, and I had just started to hear rumors of Derek's work. The rumors were so...

I tried that one year, kept my hives in the living room. Nobody was stung, but they messed everywhere. They decorated the walls with yellow rain. Never again.