Uniting when supers are involved

[Glenviewbee]

One of my colonies has been busy piling in the nectar and has filled a few frames of a super with capped honey. However I am pretty sure the colony is queenless - the history of this colony is that it was the brood plus QC side of an AS back in mid May. QC emerged but it seems the VQ got lost/mated poorly and now, 6 weeks later I am at the point of wanting to unite it with another colony that has got a laying queen.
I have put a test frame into the Q- colony today to double check with the idea of uniting if they have started to draw QCs when I check in 4 days.
The queenright colony does not have any super on - so I was thinking of having Q+ colony, then unite with newspaper with Q- on top, including the super. I know that this means quite a lot of hefting of boxes around but is that a problem for the unite?
And how soon can I go in to reorder the brood frames into 1 box after the unite?
Thanks

 

[Davelin]

Sounds a good plan to me.
Once they have chewed through the paper and integrated you can resort the frames.
I tend to leave them a week, but think they probably do it quicker than that.

 

[Arfermo]

24 hrs is usually enough.

 

[Glenviewbee]

Thanks for the replies D and A - am patiently sitting on my hands before checking on the state of play on Sat