PVC Pipe Test Cap with Knockout-39101 - The Home Depot You can get them in sizes from 3/4" up through 4" and I find them to be super useful in beekeeping for everything from ventilating and feeding to ant proofing. If you want to use round vent holes then an easy plug is one of these: Oatey 2 in. I make my telescoping covers with longer skirts than standard so the skirts hang down below the vents, protecting them from wind. The ones that I made after this one have 1/2" slot vents. The pictured Vivaldi has vents that are too large. The taller Vivaldi boards can also house a round rapid feeder. ![]() Here is the photo of my Vivaldi with 2" XPS from this thread Quilt box vents necessary? This is one of the 4" high converted quilt boxes. Somewhere I have a picture posted (I miss the old forum photo library) I'll try and find it and add the link.Įdit, found it. I buy a yard and a half of 46" batt burlap, fold it in half twice by width and then in half twice by length and it goes over the screen. In the winter I place folded burlap over the screened box. In the summer I flip the box over to block the bees from coming up through the hole. ![]() I can fill that space with granulated sugar for emergency feeding. Mine have 2" XPS foam perimeter with an 8x8 central cutout filled by a screened box that is 2" high. You could screw the inner cover to the the shallow super for permanent four seasons use. That is basically a two piece Vivaldi board. Or you can use your inner cover as the floor of your Vavaldi board and simply add a shallow super with vents. One of the summer time advantages of a Vivaldi is that it serves as a ventilated buffer between the sunshine and the hot hive cover and the hive chamber, helping keep the hive chamber cooler. If you use it all four seasons then it isn't really an extra piece of equipment. The Vivaldi board is so named for the composer's most known work, "The four seasons." A Vivaldi board can be left on the hive year round and take the place of the inner cover. The ones I purpose built are 5-1/2" deep, the width of a 2圆. My Vivaldi boards that are converted from quilts are four inches deep. I also made some Vivaldi boards from scratch, made the same way. I cut 1/2 thick plywood to fit inside the box, set shims on the table to hold the plywood up, placed the box, inserted the plywood, and then pocket screwed the plywood insert in place. I liked Vivaldi boards so much that I converted my quilt boxes to Vivaldi boards. ![]() The hive is 1.5" minimum wood sides and a 2" thick bottom and 2" of pink foam under the metal covered lid, that covers a 3/4" inner cover. My hive is nothing special, it does differ from the norm as it is well insulated for my area (ag zone 8b ). ![]() The problem is not humidity in your boxes, it is condensation that is allowed to form in a non-insulated hive. There is nothing wet inside my box, dry sugar doesn't rock up, no staining or mold. The lowest is 64%, so the bees are holding humidity in a 10% range, while the outdoor range has gone from 60% to 100% The bees are controlling the humidity in the box, outdoor humidity is 100% inside humidity is 75% and that is the highest level I see. I have a BroodMinder in the box and the humidity is consistently lower inside the hive than it is outside. I'm in the Pacific North Wet, I do not use an upper entrance or vent, I have a floor level opening 5" X 1/2" 1/2 taped up during winter.
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