BeeCastle10-Frames Complete Beehive Kit, 100% Beeswax Coated Bee Hive Includes Beehive Frames and Beeswax Coated Foundation Sheet (2 Layer)

The IMPROVED model is WORTH EVERY penny and includes EVERYTHING needed for a bee home. If you are looking for the perfect gift anyone would love, look no further. You can easily be a hero with this. HIGH QUALITY. SMELLS amazing! I had bees inspecting it before I got finished putting it together. Your bees will LOVE their home! EASY assembly. The pre-drilled holes make it easy to attach screws by hand. AND it makes it simple to know where to put them, even if you have never built a bee hive. They even included easy to understand instructions. Doubt you will need them. Dovetail ends fit each other perfectly. This hive would be a dream come true for ANY beekeeper for Christmas or Special gift. And YES, you can get the body together in minutes. Slap a red bow and slide under the tree. You WILL be a hero. If I got this as a gift, it's so beautiful that I would put it on display on porch while I waited for bees to arrive in Spring! I originally bought the previous model in 2020, and I was not impressed. Scathing review. Nails cracked wood. You look at the pics and you can see what I mean. The prior model was a flop out of the box. I didn't know what I was doing and put nails in wrong spot, splitting wood. The old model didnt have instructions. But this NEW improved model they are selling... it's PERFECT for even a new keeper. Wax coating thicker. It's like a completely different hive. I will give the old model credit. The wax smelled great to bees. I put it on a ladder under a tree, facing driveway, and it lured a HUGE feral swarm in April 2022. The wax coating smells perfect to bees. You can watch the video of the swarm on youtube. (search for #JustBees). I will be uploading a full video of me assembling this. It takes time to edit and upload, and I didn't want a bad review sitting on the most PERFECT hive. This is DEFINITELY on the top of my wish list for my #1 ultimate gift. I want my bee yard full of these beautiful hives. Flowers is bloom, butterflies, bees, and these beautiful hives. Thank You BeeCastle for putting together something that works as good as it looks.Note: the frames inside require a hammer and the instructions recommend you glue before hammering. If this is a gift, just let the beekeeper put them together. The plastic foundation is WELL coated with beeswax. They may or may not chose to use it. They are easy and fast to assemble. 4 nails per frame. Holes are not pre-drilled but might help on frames too. Minor issue. All parts of this hive kit were interchangeable with a 10 frame standard langstroth hive.You absolutely cannot go wrong buying this. 5 stars.

The media could not be loaded. My 13-year-old son has started beekeeping as a hobby, and we couldn't have asked for a better experience with his first beehive. The assembly was straightforward, and the quality of the materials is impressive. Despite the heavy rains and extreme heat we've experienced, this hive has withstood the various environmental conditions. It still looks brand new, as if we just took it out of the shipping box. This hive offers great value and quality. Plus, it has a wonderful smell!

For what you get - two boxes, medium and deep frames, queen excluder, entrance reducer, inner & outer top, and bottom board - you can't really beat it. The wood is good quality overall. The boxes and exteriors are waxed, the frames are not. One frame side slat had a broken piece that I just glued back in place. Otherwise, everything in the shipping box checked out. I noticed that there was only one size of screws in the screws bag - unlike what some other reviewers mentioned about longer and shorter screws. Didn't seem to matter, as they all went into place without incident. I even had a honey bee flying around the deep box as I was assembling the super. ("Not yet," I told her.)This thing is not a complicated build. Putting together all the frames was tedious, but not difficult. Also, the parts only fit one way, so if something looks like it doesn't line up or fit correctly, you've got it positioned wrong. I would also recommend using glue in the frame parts connecting the top bar to the side slats, as you only get a bag of small nails for the frames. Point of emphasis here for novice nailers: Don't be "tap-tap" tentative when nailing the frames together. Be deliberate with your nail whacking and you'll get better results. To put the walls of the boxes together, I used a board and a rubber mallet to evenly knock them in place. (Don't bother with glue for the boxes, as they are waxed.) I used a power drill for the screws, here, but you could hand screw these in place.Now, the long wait for spring...

easy to install. sturdy, the bees love it. I used it at the relocation site and once the queen was in they came right in quickly. happy bees