Bakerbee
Field Bee
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2017
- Messages
- 541
- Reaction score
- 23
- Location
- Dorset
- Hive Type
- Commercial
- Number of Hives
- 5 commercials no more
This may be a silly question but i cant find an explanation anywhere. We are replacing our hive. Its a commercial and we were happy to go with another commercial. We bought a lovely cedar hive with supers frames and foundation at the same time. Weve put it all together and theres only 10 fames to each box leaving a 3inch gap! How many frames should a commercial take. Our old one which we started with was homemade from a chap and has 11 frames that fit nice n snug with correct spacing for bees. Is the way frames and hives sold the same con as a pack of 8 sausages but the hotdog buns are sold as 6. We have spare frames that is not the problem. We need to know how many to put in for the hive to be spaced correctly. My hubby suggested knocking up some dummy boards as a solution but not knowing is bugging me. Next step will be to swap old hive frames n all for new, were thinking of shook swarm as a nice opportunity to minimize varroa. But when and are we brave enough....