National Beehive Galvanised Assembled Roof 4"(100mm) Deep - European Style by Thomas Apiculture

Excellent quality Tin roofs we have introduced into our apiary’s no painting required!!

Really love this roof. I had a gabled roof which was far too heavy for me. I was worried it would be cold in the winter but I've read that some people are putting insulation in them.

Good quality thanks Gruff

Fantastic bee hive roof. Simple and do the job. Is protecting my bee hive perfectly. I used to have a gable roof which was pretty but useless. This one does the job. Thank you!

A lot of our hives have very deep, heavy wooden roofs, great for withstanding winter storms but ‘heavy man’. Others have deep roofs made from 50mm aluminium skinned insulation which this winter, for some reason, birds have begun pecking - though never before. These metal roofs, collected in store (worth a visit as there’s a good selection of genuinely useful items there and you always get a great welcome!) seem well made and of good thickness so we’ve cut 50mm slabs of high quality insulation to slot inside which still leaves a good overhang and sits directly on the crownboard. Because they’re lightweight we strap or weigh the roofs down (three seed trays on top supply a decent weight and keep the seedlings from getting waterlogged on the ground) and the insulation will help keep the hives cooler in the summer sun too - we do get sun in mid-Wales. We do a lot of black queen breeding here each year so might cut our old wooden roofs down to make two nuc covers and then equip all our standard colonies with these, they’ll save a lot of backache over the course of a year!