Wax Dipping

Enhance and Protect Your Wooden Hives with Long-Lasting Wax Treatment

In recent years, for our own wooden hives, we have abandoned all paints and wood treatments. and now wax dip (or more accurately wax fry) all our wooden boxes and floors, new and old alike, in a specially formulated blend of paraffin and microcrystalline waxes.

This preserves the wood, said to be for at least 20 years, and can be redone as often as you wish. Leaves no traces of chemicals that can contaminate the hive and leaves a natural looking hive that generally appeals well to landowners.

We perform the treatment at 160C which gives the boxes a waterproof exterior yet does not leave them waxy as lower temperatures can. Also 160C effectively sterilizes all the used boxes with no need for use of a blow torch, and is said to be effective against both EFB and AFB.

We offer the dipping as an optional extra on all wooden boxes and floors…on other hive parts it is not generally done as it is not required, and the heat can make plywood parts warp.

To choose the wax dipped option please simply request it on your order. You will find the Wax dipping in the Shop > Beekeeping Equipment > Wax section of our shop. Alternatively, click on the link below.

A stack of light-coloured, newly constructed wooden beehive boxes with clean, smooth surfaces, showing the handles cut into the sides.

Before dipping - dry white wood.

A close-up of light-coloured, newly constructed wooden beehive boxes with some wax residue visible on the surface

Box still very hot from the dipping and drawing in the wax. The box to left is from a previous dip and already looks dry with no surplus wax visible. Just looks like dry wood ... until it rains and it sheds the water perfectly.

A pile of wooden beehive boxes stacked haphazardly, showing the natural wood grain and construction details.

Boxes after being dipped in wax.

Wooden beehive boxes covered in droplets of water, stacked outdoors in a damp environment

Old boxes after wax dipping and a night outside in the rain….no water soaking in at all

Wooden beehive boxes being dipped into a large metal container filled with hot wax as part of a preservation process, with a person observing in the background.

A rack of floors going into the hot wax.

Same rack after finishing.

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  • Wax Dipped Boxes

    Wax Dipping

     Price range: £2.50 through £3.50 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page

We can Wax Dip your existing equipment

A row of beehives suitable for Wax Dipping
Wax dipping of your old equipment can be done by arrangement subject to appropriate bio security arrangements. Please inquire by calling 07736 115559, or by using our Contact Form. Wax Dipping your existing equipment costs the same price as for new items.
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