British Standard Bee Hive Frame Dimensions

The standard brood boxes being 8 225mm tall and the shallow super 5 150mm tall.

British standard bee hive frame dimensions.

The main walls are 19mm thick. 1 x 6 clear pine. Drill two 1 8 holes 1 3 4 apart and centered along the long. These are the side bars for the shallow frames.

Cut a saw kerf groove centered along the entire length 1 8 wide. No part of any hive box apart from lug seating parts should be more or less than a bee space from any of its parts. These are the top bars for all the frames. These are the external dimensions of the british standard brood frame that has the shorter 19 mm lugs.

Bs national standard brood box with frames shown through cutaway two frames removed to show detail. Some beekeepers use national supers on commercial brood boxes others vice versa. Commercial hive is also known as 16 x 10 and has a larger volume. 17 x 1 1 16 x 3 4.

The external size is the same as the national although the frame size is different. Length of the side bar. The above are the external dimensions of the hoffman type british standard brood frame. 5 9 16 x 1 3 8 x 3 8.

British standard commercial bee hive frame dimensions. It is suited to more prolific bees and is an alternative to brood and a half or langstroth. Originally the national major frame was 16 x 10 with a 17 1 2 top bar but the top bar was reduced the to 17 3 16 and this frame design and the american style box that simmins designed to suit it became the british standard commercial hive but i do not know what date the adoption of it as a british standard occurred.