<quote>and the Joy and excitment was a truely wonderous thing to first behold my own bees,many older Beek's seem to forget they too once felt such joy and have become blinkered in there pursuit of doing whats right by the bees and the newcomers</quote> Do you think so? I still feel the joy and excitement when I see the first foraging bees out on the snowdrops; the first spring inspection showing huge amounts of brood; the sheer beauty of a good queen; the capturing and hiving of a swarm ...
It's just the sterling board roofs that have this problem - all year round, not just in winter. The old ones are fine. The posh name for the stuff is OSB, I gather. (oriented strand board, in case it ever comes up in a trivia quiz!)
I have several roofs which are just light Correx but I have a 18" square of Polystyrene below the roof on top of the crown board and an old tyre on top of the roof to hold all in place. The crown boards seem to stay dry with this arrangement.
Didn't know - until now - that is what you call them. I suppose that in a cold winter condensation may be worse than usual. Two ways to reduce this: good insulation on top means that the roof is warmer (maybe this is what you did but the warm moist air got past this to the board?) or to maintain a decent air flow so that warm moist air does escape above the crownboard and thence to the great outdoors throught the vents in the side of the roof? Mine were dry this winter. Could have been the incomplete sealing of the feed hole. Could have been the mesh floors on most colonies. Or both.
We swapped a couple of roofs in January as they were dripping wet. Not allowing water in but containing it. Does anyone else have trouble with these new sterling board roofs?
Nice to see you contributing, LP. I can see that I'm going to enjoy reading your thoughts.
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