Preserving the wood inside the hive.

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Ziggymole

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I'm busy getting my first (ever) hive ready. The outside is being painted in exterior satin paint but what would you recommend I use inside? Do you have a particular "recipe" or use an off the shelf product?

Pros/Cons and other suggestions all gratefully recieved.

Ziggy
 
Easy, let the bees do it, they coat most with a thin layer of wax and also propolis gets used inside the hive, there is now no wood preserver approved for inside beehives, the last wast cuprinol clear but that has been altered and is not recommended for beehives
 
Hi Ziggy. If you have a cedar hive, paint isn't the best option as it seals and stops the wood from 'breathing'. Cedar has natural preserving oils. Paint does serve to protect other woods lacking in natural protection.

Bees will decorate the inside to their own preference.
 
bees will cover every available (to them) surface with a microscopic layer of propolis, so no need to do anything to inside surfaces of a hive
 
Easy, let the bees do it, they coat most with a thin layer of wax and also propolis gets used inside the hive, there is now no wood preserver approved for inside beehives, the last wast cuprinol clear but that has been altered and is not recommended for beehives

:iagree::iagree::iagree:
VM
 
bees will cover every available (to them) surface with a microscopic layer of propolis, so no need to do anything to inside surfaces of a hive

Nice concise response.:cool:

Sorted.

Chris
 
Thank you it's been quite suprising to have a unanimous response. I'll leave the bees to it, I'd read somewhere the inside was rubbed with a beeswax/linseed oil mix ??

Ziggy
 

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