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Thanks - will stick spacers on the Hoffmans to get them evenly spaced. Seems like the hoffmans are a few mm narrower, plus where hoffman meets standard they do not line up well.

Morning I have just taken delivery of a 6-frame nuc which looks in good shape. The nuc frames are standard national frames with plastic spacers, but I have Hoffman frames in the brood box. The spacing looks awkward, with the Hoffman frames closer together than the standard ones, and with 6...

Thanks for the advice all. After I switched out a couple of the frames full of stores and bruised the others they have successfully filled the rest of the frames with mostly brood, to the extent that they are now starting to build out additional comb on the bottom of the frames for brood. I am...

Thanks - do you mean replace a couple with clean frames? Also when you say "scrape" do you mean clean the stores off or just hte capping?

Afternoon Apologies if this is either a stupid question or there are numerour other threads on the subject.... 4 of the outer frames in the brood box are full of stores at the moment - I have just put the first super on and they're working well on that but how do I encourage them to replace...

The outer four frames were drawn but either empty or capped with stores - so I think 7 had brood in them. I will take another look in at the weekend (rain permitting) and see what progress is being made upstairs. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the quick replies - all of the frames in the brood chamber have been drawn out to a large extent (the two end ones are bare on their outsides but doing well on the interior faces) so I think they need the extra room but the question is whether that extra room is a brood super or honey...

Afternoon Am new to beekeeping so apologies for the daft questions... Have just installed a colony from a nuc which has been doing well for a few weeks, so have added a super to give them more room. However given the relative age of the colony plus the gerneally crappy weather I'm not sure...