Plastic frames

[Frenchie]

Hello,my local bee supplier is selling plastic frames,has anybody used these and are their any advantages/disadvantages?Price is about the same as wooden frames.Thanks.

 

[REDWOOD]

can you disinfect them with a flame, probably not and do you think plastic is a natural thing to have in a hive, just my opinion

 

[Nightynight]

can you disinfect them with a flame, probably not and do you think plastic is a natural thing to have in a hive, just my opinion

how would the plastic get infected? and with what that would be washed off with soap and water... not advocating plastic just I can see (if its the right material) they could have bennifits

 

[Meg]

They distort if you try to boil them up to clean them (or put them in a solar wax extractor). Wooden ones don't. They look great new and are easy to insert foundation, but a real bugger to clean up to use again. Atleast, that's how I have found them.

Meg

 

[the naked beekeeper]

They distort if you try to boil them up to clean them (or put them in a solar wax extractor). Wooden ones don't. They look great new and are easy to insert foundation, but a real bugger to clean up to use again. Atleast, that's how I have found them.

Meg

True, unless you wire your own frames. Fiddly at first, but you only have to do it once. Then re-waxing is easy. No messing about with side bar grooves.

 

[Frenchie]

Thanks everyone,think I will stick to wooden ones.

 

[Mike a]

I've tried both one piece frames and plastic foundation sheets. The one piece frames can be a problem as they warp badly but the plastic foundation sheets are excellent.

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=205515&postcount=18

 

[drstitson]

apparently wrt the one piece frames it's best to stick to super frames which distort less.

 

[JohnF]

Thanks everyone,think I will stick to wooden ones.

Why not try one super with them?
I use about 50% of supers with them, they don't get damaged when extracting, easy to clean.
They need a coating of wax which is done with a roller and some melted wax, good description of how to use at pierco.net

 

[drstitson]

"good description of how to use at pierco.net"

or one could hop over to the MB website where there is a nice video of someone who looks suspiciously like our very own Rooftops doing his very bestest Dexter impression.

 

[Red Bee]

I've tried both one piece frames and plastic foundation sheets. The one piece frames can be a problem as they warp badly but the plastic foundation sheets are excellent.

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=205515&postcount=18

They look good!

Where can you buy these sheets?

Cheers