September, 2010 | peak-hives.co.uk

Metalwork for Brood Boxes and Supers are sold seperately. Please select from the bottom of the left hand column.

Bottom bee space is standard. If you prefer top bee space then please advise.

National Standard Floor

Made from Cedar or Red Deal with a ply floor and timber lipping. Comes with entrance block.

Assembled Cedar £24.02 Assembled Red Deal £18.55

National Varroa Floor

Comes with Yellow Correx slide out tray for Varroa inspection and entrance block.

national hive open mesh floor with slide out tray

Assembled Cedar £27.52 Assembled Red Deal £24.76

National Brood

Assembled Cedar £48.52 Assembled Red Deal £34.89

Flat Pack National Brood

Cedar £35.96
Red Deal £25.56

National Super

Assembled Cedar £34.96 Assembled Red Deal £24.21

Flat Pack National Super

Cedar £24.65
Red Deal £15.30

National 4" Roof

Assembled Cedar £43.97 Assembled Red Deal £31.50

Flat Pack National 4" Roof

Cedar £32.22
Red Deal £27.52

National 6" Roof

Assembled Cedar £56.23 Assembled Red Deal £39.90

National Gabled Roof

Assembled Cedar £60.65 Assembled Red Deal £47.45

National Hive Stand W Splayed Legs and Large Landing Board

Assembled Cedar £34.22 Assembled Red Deal £27.86

National Hive Stand W Landing Board

Assembled Cedar £24.22 Assembled Red Deal £17.86

Flat Pack National Stand W Landing Board

Cedar £22.96
Red Deal £16.24

National 14x12 Brood Box

Assembled Cedar £58.87 Assembled Red Deal £38.54

Flat Pack National 14x12 Brood Box

Cedar £42.25
Red Deal £27.66

Framed Queen Excluder

Framed Queen Excluders suitable for both top and bottom bee space. £17.89

Apiguard Crown Board

Facilitates administration of 'Apiguard' and can be used as a Clearer Board with the supplied Porter Bee Escapes. £17.23

Crown Board

Can also be used as a Clearer Board with the supplied Porter Bee Escapes. £12.55

Polycarbonate Quilt

Transparent alternative to the Crown Board. Allows viewing bees with minimal disruption to the colony. £17.21

14x12 Eke

Used to convert a standard brood box to take 14x12 frames. Requires metal runners or castellated spacers (below)

Assembled Cedar £28.96 Assembled Red Deal £22.88

National Nucleus Hive

Suitable for 6 Hoffman frames with a higher roof to take 1/4 gallon liquid feeders. Comes with dummy board for easier inspection. Choose a timber and Assembled (Assm) or Flat Pack (FP)

National Nucleus Hive 14x12

As above but 14x12. Choose a timber and Assembled (Assm) or Flat Pack (FP)

Ashforth Feeder

Lock Jointed Cedar. Inside sealed with three coats of paint. Perspex cover over bee area. Large holds 10 litres and Nuc 5 litres.

Nucleus Stand W Splayed Legs & Large Landing Board

Assembled Cedar £26.45 Assembled Red Deal £21.12

National Nucleus Stand W Landing Board

Assembled Cedar £20.29 Assembled Red Deal £14.94

Nucleus Hive Super

Supplied with fitted metal runners.

Assembled Cedar £27.52 Assembled Red Deal £21.89

Castellated Spacers and Metal Runners

Metal Runners £1.15 per pair

Porter Bee Escapes. 95p

Hive Tools

Manufactured locally in Sheffield.

Mouse Guard

£0.89

National Entrance Block

Western Red Cedar with a small and large entrance. Made slightly overlength. Cut to fit your hive.

£2.54

Dummy Boards

Choose from National Hive Standard Brood, National 14x12 Brood or National Super

Frames

National Hive Hoffman, DN1 and SN1 Frames are now available in Flat Packs of 10 and 50. All packs come supplied with frame nails.

Nucleus Colonies

If you are interested in a top quality Nucleus Colony on 5 or 6 frames please email
nicholas@peak-hives.co.uk
and we will pass on your details to our bee breeder Helen. She's an expert with a wealth of experience and produces quality nucs with marked queens. She is also breeding now from newly arrived Buckfast Queens. The 2013 season price per Nucleus Colony is £175.00.

British National Beehives

Based in a small workshop in Tideswell in the Peak District we make British National Beehives out of 1st grade Western Red Cedar, high quality Red Deal or, when available, locally sourced Western Red Cedar according to the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) Modified National Hive Plans. Everything we sell we make here in the Peak District. The driving forces behind peak-hives.co.uk are sustainability and quality workmanship. Sustainability because, well it matters quite a bit we think and quality workmanship because customer satisfaction is paramount.

Fully Assembled National Hives

Customise to your requirements and choose either 1st grade Cedar or Red Deal. Standard Brood Box and Floor are included in the price. Bottom Bee Space is the National Hive standard so if you want Top Bee Space tick the checkbox. Don't forget to add on your metalwork requirements from the left hand column. We stock metal runners for Hoffman Frames and Castellated Spacers for SN1 etc. Please choose your hive options and extras below:

Supers:

Roof:

Floor:

Crown:

Stand:

14x12 Brood Box + £16.20

Framed Wired Queen Excluder + £17.89

Top Bee Space. Free.

red deal Red Deal Discount.

Total

Flat Pack National Hives

Customise to your requirements and choose either 1st Grade Cedar or Red Deal. Standard Brood Box and Floor are included in the price. Bottom Bee Space is the National Hive standard so if you want Top Bee Space tick the checkbox. Don't forget to add on your metalwork requirements from the left hand column. We stock metal runners for Hoffman Frames and Castellated Spacers for SN1 etc. Please choose your hive options and extras below:

Supers:

Roof:

Floor:

Crown:

Stand:

14x12 Brood Box + £14.53

Framed Wired Queen Excluder + £17.89

Top Bee Space. Free.

red deal Red Deal Discount.

Total

flat pack national hive in cedar or red deal

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Want to see your National Hive being made? Here's what's going on in the workshop right now. The image is updated every 10 minutes during working hours. Click to see full size...

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The rest of the centre column is an ongoing blog of what's new at peak-hives.co.uk and other items of interest...veg garden...renewables etc, but please don't let reading about the allotment distract you from placing your order...:-)

14×12 Top Bee Space National Hive in Cedar

Here’s a 14×12 top bee space National Hive in Cedar. It’s for an order but I shall also be moving my bees onto 14×12 top bee space in the coming season. I’ve just about managed OK this year with the ‘brood and a half’ I got the bees on but I have to agree with Ted Hooper that a single brood chamber has to be better (easier) to manage and any help in making the transition from beekeeping novice to beekeeper is more than welcome!

14x12 Top Bee Space National

This hive has been constructed using a mix of bought in and locally sourced Peak District Cedar.

Tideswell Dale Honey

Now we have a printer that’s working I’ve finally printed up some labels for our Tideswell Dale Honey. It’s a simple affair and doesn’t precisely conform to the honey labelling regulations etc but we’re only going to sell around 60 of these jars locally.

Tideswell Dale Honey

14x12 Nucleus Hives in Cedar

With Peak Hives Nucleus Hive Ashforth Feeders. These two will be winging their way to their new owner on Monday…along with the other two orders my slave driving partner Adriana has instructed me to make up this weekend (yes, weekend!). Still, it’s better to have work these days so no grumbling from me!

14×12 Nucleus Hives In Cedar

Here’s a shot of the last batch of Peak District Western Red Cedar now ready for machining having spent the summer air drying. I’ll be doing a post in the next few days about converting raw lumber like this into finished National Hive parts ready for our pollinating friends to occupy. I’ve been today to see another local Cedar that has to be felled in the coming weeks to stop it falling on the owner’s conservatory. Better it’s made into National Hives rather than firewood (Cedar is apparently a very poor firewood anyway so I’m informed)

WRC In The Workshop

Autumn?

I’ve not quite forgotten how to post articles onto the Peak Hives website but it has been a while…

There’s more than a couple of reasons why it’s been so quiet on here but one major reason is while we were away on hols the camera got dropped into the sea! Digital cameras and salt water don’t mix it seems and no matter how much drying time I give it it refuses to take another piccy. Took receipt the other day of a new camera and can finally take some shots to put onto the site again…One of the other reason it’s been so quiet is I’m spending as much time as possible in the workshop to make up orders.

Off the top of my head this weeks production has included…around 50 flat pack national supers, 25 flat pack national brood boxes, a dozen or so of broods and supers assembled, several Varroa Open Mesh Floors, two standard floors (yes there are still experienced beekeepers who use them), around 14 4″ roofs, 1 complete 14×12 hive in cedar and an accompanying nucleus hive (pictured) and a few ashforth feeders…phew. There’s lots more to make up though and we certainly do thank our customers for their patience.

14x12 hive and 14x12 nuc

Up here in the Peak the season’s well and truly over as regards the buzzers…they’re settling in for winter. Started with 2 colonies and looks like we’ll end with 2. Now to see how they fair in the Peak District winter…

Think I’ll give them a little help with some cut up Kingspan.

You can purchase everything for a National Hive here on a single page. If you're looking at buying a complete hive then please use the center column...for National Hive parts please use the left hand column. You can view your order at any time here...

If you have any problems ordering please email nicholas@peak-hives.co.uk and we'll reply as soon as possible.

You can also call Nicholas or Adriana on 07594 583 151 but emailing is best as it allows Nick to be more productive in the workshop and get orders out earlier. All hives / hive parts are custom made to order. Please remember that our priorities are quality and sustainability and not making a quick profit out of mass produced items.

If you have a large order (eg 10 plus hives) then discounts will be available. Please call to discuss but please remember our prices are already very competitive.

Delivery/Collection

If you're within pickup distance then we welcome collection in person direct from our workshop in Tideswell. Otherwise UK mainland delivery charges are as follows: £0.01 to £99.99 = £9.99 £100 to 199.99 = £7.99 over £200.00 = free delivery

If your order is to ship to Northern Ireland, The Channel Islands, Republic of Ireland or the Highlands and Islands please add extra postage by clicking this button...

Peak Hives is, and will remain, a small cottage industry. We have a small dedicated workshop and Nick makes all our products to order. Due to the huge increase in interest in beekeeping we are very busy at the moment. If you have a time critical order then please call Nick/Adriana on 07594 583 151 and we will always try our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that the current turn around on orders is approximately 4 weeks.

"...just wanted to say a massive thankyou for my hive, it is beautiful! I get my bees on Saturday and i'm really proud to have them in your hive! You now have a devoted customer..."

"...a truly amazing business and I will spread the word in our club. I guess that is why I would not go elsewhere quality is worth the wait..."

"...I am very pleased with both the quality of the workmanship and the manner in which the package was delivered....The bees have settled in very quickly and they appear to be happy with their new home! Thank you very much for your excellent service...."

"...thank you both for being a British company making something in a traditional way. I wish you the best of luck and will be ordering more soon I'm sure..."

"...Arrived safely. Brilliant customer service..."

"...Your hives are of outstanding quality and worth the delivery time wait..."

"...delivered the Outstanding Varroa Floor this morning. Please thank Nicholas for his efforts on making the Hive Items I ordered promptly and to the usual high quality.."

"...Thank you for sending my additional hive parts so quickly. I am very pleased with the hive which was also appreciated by a group of bee inspectors..."

"...as with my previous order, everything was beautifully made and easy and straightforward to assemble..."

"...Hi, I’ve just received my new nucleus hive and I couldn’t be more pleased. It’s far too nice to go outside, it’s more like a piece of furniture!..."

"...The quality looks really good, and I am looking forward to assembling the first one to see how they look."

"...Once again I compliment you on the top quality of your products, excellent, it's nice doing business with someone who cares..."

"...arrived and look excellent - the nuke in particular is a masterpiece"

"...really gratifying to know that there are still craftspeople in this world who can turn out high quality products, use sustainable business practices and materials, still charge an accessible price and deal with customers in a friendly manner..."

"...thanks for the hive its gone together well and is now waiting for its bees!"

"...arrived this morning, very nice, I am well pleased with it."

"...Just to say thanks for you effort to get the bee hive to us. The brother-in-law is a happy fellow..."

"...were easy to assemble and all functioning...The quality of timber is also so much better than other ones I've had..."

"...Nuc’s just arrived. Many thanks for getting it out to me before the weekend. It looks really good, can’t wait to put it together so I can split my colony and put it to some good use..."

Hive Parts

National Standard Floor

National Varroa Floor

National Brood

Flat Pack National Brood

National Super

Flat Pack National Super

National 4" Roof

Flat Pack National 4" Roof

National 6" Roof

National Gabled Roof

National Hive Stand W Splayed Legs and Large Landing Board

National Hive Stand W Landing Board

Flat Pack National Stand W Landing Board

National 14x12 Brood Box

Flat Pack National 14x12 Brood Box

Framed Queen Excluder

Apiguard Crown Board

Crown Board

Polycarbonate Quilt

14x12 Eke

National Nucleus Hive

National Nucleus Hive 14x12

Ashforth Feeder

Nucleus Stand W Splayed Legs & Large Landing Board

National Nucleus Stand W Landing Board

Nucleus Hive Super

Castellated Spacers and Metal Runners

Hive Tools

Mouse Guard

National Entrance Block

Dummy Boards

Frames

Nucleus Colonies

British National Beehives

Fully Assembled National Hives

Flat Pack National Hives

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14×12 Top Bee Space National Hive in Cedar

Tideswell Dale Honey

14x12 Nucleus Hives in Cedar

Autumn?

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