The season’s nearly over here in the Peak District. Time to pop some Apiguard on the hives and get things ready for the winter. We took over 200lb of honey off our 5 colonies and we’re jarring up to sell through local outlets. James and Alexandra are already planning what to buy with their ‘honey [...]
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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 FloorMade 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 FloorComes with Yellow Correx slide out tray for Varroa inspection and entrance block.
Assembled Cedar £27.52 Assembled Red Deal £24.76 National Brood
Assembled Cedar £41.52
Assembled Red Deal £27.89
Flat Pack National Brood
Cedar £33.96Red Deal £22.56 National Super
Assembled Cedar £31.96
Assembled Red Deal £22.21
Flat Pack National Super
Cedar £24.65Red Deal £14.30 National 4" Roof
Assembled Cedar £39.97
Assembled Red Deal £27.50
Flat Pack National 4" Roof
Cedar £30.22Red Deal £22.52 National Gabled Roof
Assembled Cedar £60.65
Assembled Red Deal £47.45
National Stand W Landing Board
Assembled Cedar £24.22
Assembled Red Deal £17.86
Flat Pack National Stand W Landing Board
Cedar £22.96Red Deal £16.24 National 14x12 Brood Box
Assembled Cedar £52.87
Assembled Red Deal £34.54
Flat Pack National 14x12 Brood Box
Cedar £42.25Red Deal £27.66 Framed Queen Excluder
Framed Queen Excluders suitable for both top and bottom bee space. £16.78
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 EkeUsed to convert a standard brood box to take 14x12 frames. Requires metal runners or castellated spacers (below)
Assembled Cedar £17.96
Assembled Red Deal £16.88
National Nucleus HiveSuitable 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 14x12As above but 14x12. Choose a timber and Assembled (Assm) or Flat Pack (FP)
Ashforth FeederLock Jointed Cedar. Inside sealed with three coats of paint. Perspex cover over bee area. Large holds 10 litres and Nuc 5 litres.
National Nucleus Stand W Landing Board
Assembled Cedar £20.29 Assembled Red Deal £14.94 Castellated Spacers and Metal Runners
Metal Runners 94p per pairPorter Bee Escapes. 85p 
Hive ToolsManufactured locally in Sheffield.
Mouse Guard
£0.89 National Entrance BlockWestern Red Cedar with a small and large entrance. Made slightly overlength. Cut to fit your hive.
£2.54
Dummy BoardsChoose from National Hive Standard Brood, National 14x12 Brood or National Super
FramesNational Hive Hoffman, DN1 and SN1 Frames are now available in Flat Packs of 10 and 50. All packs come supplied with frame nails.
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British National BeehivesBased 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
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webcam...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... blog...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...:-)We’re very busy!!! Lots of National Hive products being made up and sent out to PH customers. I’ve had to put the mobile phone on one side to allow me to maximise time in the workshop so apologies if I don’t answer. Best bet is to email and we’ll try to answer asap. First pic [...] Christmas comes but once a year and one of our clients has given permission to show this picture of a beautifully wrapped Peak Hives National Hive given as a present. We were very worried that they might not get it in time for Christmas but as you can see it arrived in time for some [...] After dedicating myself to getting up at 5am and finishing in the workshop at 11pm for the last week I’ve finally finished Matthew’s 23 fully assembled Cedar National Hives. That’s 23 National Hive Stands, 23 Varroa Floors, 23 National Brood Boxes, 46 National Supers, 23 Framed and Wired Queen Excluders, 23 Crown Boards with Porter [...] The idea of turning the joinery workshop into a National Hives business originally arose out of my own desire to start beekeeping and a few months ago I was lucky enough to meet Richard H who offered a couple of colonies in exchange for equipment. Last week I travelled down (in the new Peak Hives [...] Hi. Answering a few queries I’ve had about fitting metalwork to National Hive Brood Boxes and Supers here’s a quick and simple guide to correctly fitting metal rails to the woodwork. The image is more or less self explanatory but the essence of the procedure is to turn the brood/super upside down and place some [...] With the order book so full I decided to work through the Easter weekend. By Monday I had a stack of Red Deal National Supers reaching up to the rafters of the workshop! National Hive Super Stack Completely cleaned me out of Red Deal. There’s more being delivered on Thursday and luckily I’ve a [...] I’ve had quite a few requests to produce top bee space national hives. Got an order finished this morning so just before my lunchbreak I decided to ‘jig up’ for offering top bee space nationals. Basically the difference in machining requires the production of a deeper top rail for supers and brood boxes and a [...] Another listing for a national hive super on ebay….here Wednesday listing…here ebay keeps things ticking over I suppose…getting busy now though so might reduce it to one promo a week… flat pack cedar national super Sunday listing… flat pack cedar national super keeping up with the wednesday/sunday promotional postings on ebay we’ve just listed another fully assembled national hive super in western red cedar… cedar national super got a big order on for flat packed mixed national hives…part cedar and part red deal…here’s a picture of one of the red deal supers being dry assembled to test for square and fit… testing national hive super for square tomorrow, sunday…lots of national roofs and nucleus hives to work on…and perhaps a bit [...] |
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