A quick way to paint supers and ekes

If you’ve got a lot of bee boxes to paint, you can make it easier by stringing them on a board suspended between two saw horses, chairs, or whatever is handy. The job goes fast because you can stand in one place and just roll the supers around the board as you paint. You can do all four outside surfaces at once, and drips don’t matter if you’re outside. On a clear day the paint dries quickly so you don’t have to keep those impatient bees waiting.

Rusty

A quick way to paint bee furniture.

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July 26th, 2011 | Tags: how-to, painting, supers | Category: beekeeping equipment

2 comments to A quick way to paint supers and ekes

• Joel

  January 16, 2012 at 7:37 pm · Reply

  Hi, Rusty. I am just finishing up building my deeps for two new hives and 16 new medium supers. I made them myself from Poplar. I am looking for a way to treat the wood without painting it…I have seen the Eco wood treatment on the Kelley website a couple times and when I drove up to their place in Clarkson last week I picked up a couple pouches of it to try out (REALLY nice people, by the way).

  According to them (they had a couple sets of hives they had put together and treated with Eco rather than paint and let weather for a couple months) it works great, no real fumes, goes on easy, and you never have to retreat…ever.

  I haven’t used it yet, and was just wondering if you had ever used it before…they seemed pretty impressed with it.

  Joel

  • Rusty

    January 17, 2012 at 3:57 pm · Reply

    Joel,

    I haven’t used it but I have heard good things about it. Many people treat the wood rather than painting it and I have no issue with that whatsoever. Many people just use linseed oil and that seems to work well too.

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