In this concise tutorial, Laurence Edwards of Black Mancin' Honey demonstrates how to transform a standard National wooden beehive floor into an underfloor entrance using only two pieces of wood. He explains that the design, sourced from a beekeeping forum, involves adding a thick strip of wood flush with the floor and a 9 mm plywood piece to create an 8 mm slot for bee entry. Edwards emphasizes that the critical dimension is the thickness needed to sit flush, while length and width can be trimmed to fit. He outlines the simple steps: select a suitably thick wood strip, attach a 9 mm ply, cut an 8 mm slot, then secure the assembly with nails, glue, or screws. The video showcases a deteriorated floor as an example, highlights the ease of the modification, and ends with a call to subscribe.
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In this video, I'm going to show you with just 2 bits of wood how you can convert a standard national floor into an underfloor entrance. Hi, I'm Laurence Edwards from Black Mancin' Honey. Welcome to another episode of No Nonsense Beekeeping. Little bit strange, I'm doing this one in the honey extraction room, but that's just where I am today. Really quick video, 2 bits of wood, I'm going to turn a standard national floor into an underfloor entrance. Now, my underfloor entrance is definitely not my design. You know who I got that design from? From the Beekeeping Forum. Really good, solid design. I use it on all of my hives. But I know a lot of people, when you buy your beehive kits, they come with a standard floor, so people tend to use a standard floor. I'm going to show you in this video how to amend that standard floor to turn it into an underfloor entrance with 2 Single bits of wood. Right, so here is our very old, very soon to be recycled and burnt wooden national floor. It's in a right old state. Look how ridiculously moldy and rotten it is underneath. However, good to use as an example to show you how to turn this into an underfloor entrance. Simplest method in the world: take one piece of wood. Doesn't matter how long it is. Doesn't matter how wide it is. The important thing here. is that it's thick enough to go there. Like I said, the width in this dimension, not important at all. The length in that dimension, not important at all, because you can cut it to fit. What's really important is this dimension here, and you want it to sit completely flush with the national floor. That's going to give you no problems whatsoever. So just make sure it's flush. Doesn't matter how wide it is in that dimension. Then take a 9mm piece of ply and you're going to put your 9mm piece of ply on there like that. All you need to do then is bring this piece of wood that way to enable you to get an 8mm slot in this piece of wood here. And it is as simple as that. Stick some nails in, glue it, screw it, however you want to do it. You just need to fix that into position. This dimension here is the only important dimension here. That strip needs to be 8 millimeters from there to there. Every other dimension, it completely doesn't matter. Doesn't matter how wide that is, doesn't matter how wide that is, as long as you're not blocking this entrance when you put the box on. The bees will fly in underneath there, they'll come up through this slot here. That is an underfloor entrance from a modified national floor using only 2 bits of wood. There you go. You said you wanted more beekeeping DIY. You said you wanted more hacks. That is how you modify a standard national wooden floor, turn it into an underfloor entrance using only 2 bits of wood. Hope you enjoyed that video. As always, please hit the subscribe button. Please hit the bell so you're notified of every video, and I'll see you next time.
