Made from beautiful western red cedar these hives are superb quality, machine cut for accuracy of bee space and ease of assembly.

The floors come fully assembled are open mesh with a ply varroa inspection tray and the entrance block. The rest of the hive is suppied flat pack with full assembly instructions.

Cedar is a beautiful wood that does not need painting, it will naturally turn a lovely grey colour over the years.

The full hive consists of :
Roof
1 Brood Chamber with metal frame runners
2 Supers with metal frame runners
Crownboard
Choice of Harmless plastic Queen Excluder or Wire Framed Queen Exlcuder
Open mesh floor with ply varroa inspection tray and entrance block, fully assembled

Langstroth Hive dimensions & information
External Hive Dimension 20 x 16 1/4
Brood Body Depth 9 7/16
Jumbo Brood Body Depth 11 3/4
Super Depth - 5 3/4
The brood chamber holds 10 frames giving around 62,000 cells, Jumbo would hold 75,000
Top Bee Space

Frames sizes
Top Bar length 19
Deep Side Bars (brood) 9 1/8
Jumbo Side Bars (brood) 11 ¼
Shallow Side Bars (super) 5 3/8

Foundation Sizes
Deep (brood) 16 3/4 8 5/8
Jumbo (brood) 16 3/4 x 10 3/4
Shallow (super) 16 3/4 x 4 7/8