Do you add a rim around the top for bee space or a bottom entrance?
Stable with a tall stack of boxes on it?
While there's a 1/4" space between the top bars of my frames and the top edges of the boxes, the bottom bars of my frames hang flush with the bottom edges of my boxes...there is no space there. If I was to use a bottom board like yours without rails on the sides and back then the bottom bars of my frames in the bottom box would be flush against the screen. I would think that the bees would most likely glue things together....Huh You don't have any problem with that? I'm most likely missing something...I tend to be a slow learner. grin
QuoteWhile there's a 1/4" space between the top bars of my frames and the top edges of the boxes, the bottom bars of my frames hang flush with the bottom edges of my boxes...there is no space there. If I was to use a bottom board like yours without rails on the sides and back then the bottom bars of my frames in the bottom box would be flush against the screen. I would think that the bees would most likely glue things together....Huh You don't have any problem with that? I'm most likely missing something...I tend to be a slow learner. grinThe space above frames should be 3/16" and space under frames should also be 3/16". That's what makes the 3/8" bee space.
In mine the bottom box just sits on the screen. It doesn't get stuck any more than the boxes get stuck together. Hive tool separates them easily.