How To Assemble A National Beehive Roof

A ventilated gabled roof is one of my favorite pieces of beekeeping equipment.

How to assemble a national beehive roof. Leave it natural and unfinished as with all the internal parts of any beehive. The following two tables present the cut lists for the crown board and the roof of a british national hive bnh. Take your other piece of ply known as a cover board lay it across the sides of the roof and nail into place. Since a summer beehive is loaded with moisture from both bee respiration and drying nectar the hive can quickly become a damp mold infested environment that is not healthy for bees or good for making honey.

Assemble the panels of the roof. Build the main frame of the roof by fixing the gable ends to the short sides the same way you did with the quilt and hive boxes. Loosely assemble all four side panels of the roof together as a test fit you re building a box. Warm air holds moisture and the warmer the air the more moisture it can hold.

As well as the buttons above there are dimensional and construction details here for the national hive. This information is by kind permission of the scottish beekeepers ass n. In the following tables each material column lists nominal dimensions and each dimensions column lists the actual final measurements. Crown board for the british national hive quantity material dimensions notes 4 1 x 6.

When making parts please remember the b s. X bottom fillet rebated on the underside to a depth of 1 4 leaving a shoulder of 1 2 th isp ac er ovd bf m ny x l w x upper surface of bottom fillet chamfered to shed the rain x metal runners fitted along the top edge of the end walls with their top edge 7 12 be low the top edges of the side walls of the box fit the end walls into the grooves in the side walls and nail into them through. In this episode we show you how to put together a national beehive brood the place where the bees store the honey. Build your own beehives with thorne.