What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[beeker]

I think you may need a tray!!!

@Ian123 @Newbeeneil now you have both got me fretting. Turned it on before I went to work this morning. I just know I'm going to get home later to a puddle of honey, probably with a fluffy cat stuck in it, and a very angry lady.

 

[Ian123]

@Ian123 @Newbeeneil now you have both got me fretting. Turned it on before I went to work this morning. I just know I'm going to get home later to a puddle of honey, probably with a fluffy cat stuck in it, and a very angry lady.

Having once scraped a bucket of honey off the newly tiled kitchen floor be assured we’ll have little sympathy

 

[Sutty]

If the angry lady is stuck in the honey I'd get the cat out 1st and clear away as much else as you can before you release her.

 

[Newbeeneil]

@Ian123 @Newbeeneil now you have both got me fretting. Turned it on before I went to work this morning. I just know I'm going to get home later to a puddle of honey, probably with a fluffy cat stuck in it, and a very angry lady.

You will probably be fine provided the heater is not too large and you have a decent fan. Mine used a 75 mm computer fan and a 500 watt fan heater. But the heater heated too quickly and melted the combs in the bottom super of the input side.

 

[beeker]

I'm safe. . Think the little tube heater might not be enough. Top box was 20⁰, middle 24⁰ and bottom 28⁰. Not sure if that's going to be enough??

 

[Sutty]

Aw I was looking forward to hearing about the cat & the angry lady!
If the tube heater is the 1ft dimplex type, they are only about 40w. 2 manage to get my fridge warmer up to 45C, but a lot more insulation.

 

[beeker]

Just for you @Sutty and @Ian123 & @Newbeeneil you can both do the "I told you so" dance.
Tried a frame, and it wasn't having any of it . So decided it needed a bit more heat so added a bulb in parallel to the 40w heater. And there you have it.
I'm now cleaning the floor, bonus is the lady found it funny, and has gone to work laughing at me "your handiwork, your mess, your problem"
and I beat the cats to the puddle. Lots of learning done and I'm just glad we don't have carpets

 

[JamezF]

Oh dear

James

 

[Garry R]

Just for you @Sutty and @Ian123 & @Newbeeneil you can both do the "I told you so" dance.
Tried a frame, and it wasn't having any of it . So decided it needed a bit more heat so added a bulb in parallel to the 40w heater. And there you have it.
I'm now cleaning the floor, bonus is the lady found it funny, and has gone to work laughing at me "your handiwork, your mess, your problem"
and I beat the cats to the puddle. Lots of learning done andView attachment 34909 I'm just glad we don't have carpets View attachment 34908

Just let it crystallise and scoop it up. Into a warming cabinet and filter with a J-cloth. Jar it up and label it "Un-pasteurised". They'll go mad for it.

Alternatively bring a floorless nuc into the house and pop it on top of it. They'll soon hoover it up and use it as spring feed. Beekeepers always have an answer to every problem.

 

[Sutty]

Bring a floorless nuc into the house and pop it on top of it. .

I reckon that would be an excellent method - of switching amused lady to angry lady!

 

[Sutty]

ring a floorless nuc into the house and pop it on top of it. .

I reckon that would be an excellent method - of switching amused lady to angry lady!

 

[Sutty]

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[Newbeeneil]

Just for you @Sutty and @Ian123 & @Newbeeneil you can both do the "I told you so" dance.
Tried a frame, and it wasn't having any of it . So decided it needed a bit more heat so added a bulb in parallel to the 40w heater. And there you have it.
I'm now cleaning the floor, bonus is the lady found it funny, and has gone to work laughing at me "your handiwork, your mess, your problem"
and I beat the cats to the puddle. Lots of learning done andView attachment 34909 I'm just glad we don't have carpets View attachment 34908

I have no desire to do a “I told you so dance”!
I still remember the hassle of trying to get honey out of a box lined with PIR which was the base of my system.
After my initial clean up I put the box under a colony for a couple of days and they cleaned it for me.
Wonderful things bees

 

[jkellum]

Banged together a few nucs Saturday. All waste from work

Great work.

 

[Wilco]

I reckon that would be an excellent method - of switching amused lady to angry lady!

Keep said nuc between self and said lady.

 

[user 819]

Buy your self some 2ft sq potting trays to stand supers/broods in.

 

[pargyle]

Oh dear

James

Most of us have learned that lesson (caused by a variety of 'I thought it would be alright' moments) the hard way. If you are lucky you learn and only have the mega clean up to do once in your beekeeping life ... it's amazing how far even a jar of honey spreads when it is allowed to interact with a floor !

 

[E&MBees]

Painted some new poly nuc brood boxes ready for the coming season. Need to build some more frames next.

 

[Mabee]

Been making up new boxes and frames as i’m planning on moving all my equipment to nationals in the spring. Currently a mix of commercial and national. I am going to try double brood but dummied down as the full boxes will probably be too heavy for me, even though i’ve started weight training .

Anyway, I bought a load of polystyrene insulation and planned to make some fat dummy frames but realised I could cut out some of the work by just cutting it to fit the dimension of the inside of the hive, so that’s the plan, hoping the bees don’t just chew it, guess i’ll see!

 

[JamezF]

Anyway, I bought a load of polystyrene insulation and planned to make some fat dummy frames but realised I could cut out some of the work by just cutting it to fit the dimension of the inside of the hive, so that’s the plan

There may of course be other reasons it won't work, but I might be tempted to put one of the poly blocks at either end to improve the insulation of both walls rather than have them both at one end.

James