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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: bailey on January 15, 2013, 12:18:50 pm
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Does anybody other than me use a 4" paint roller to paint woodenware?
I tried this method and love it. For tops and bottoms its a quick easy method.
For boxes I stack them upside down and I can get the inside do the handles pretty easily.
This has saved me a lot of time when compared to a paint brush!
I love my mini roller!!! :-D
Bailey
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Thanks for the info, I plan on trying it, I have lots of boxwx to paint.
Jim
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I usually spray the boxes but a good layer takes 4=5 coats.
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Scott
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You using an airless sprayer Scott?
Thought about using one but hate the noise and I'm deaf enough as it is.
The roller does pretty good with 2 coats. One to seal wood then another to thicken the paint layer.
Glad your back online and hope your luck turned to the better!!
Bailey
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I also spray paint but then I let everything sit for at lease a month with two weeks outside. No reason for the drying process just that what I do. (I like to get the sun on the new paint before the bees get to into them.) -Mike
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I roll and bush. Just depends on my mood and just how much I have to paint.
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I absolutely hate painting bee hives. I use a brush.
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Man Scott, all those things sound the same. Pile them up and have at it. I dial mine down so they don't run. So then I have to get them a couple extra coats. It helps to have a cooler close by too.
I do try to wear a mask, where's yours?
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In the past I painted with a roller, but this year I am planning to spray them. When I painted with a roller and didn't have something to separate them they would get glued together. Do you have similar problems when spraying? Or you have a trick that works slick.
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BabcockFarms, when I spray I put a toothpick in each corner for separation. I have had some minor amount of paint on the top and bottom of the boxes but no paint has ever gone inside or even half way (note I spray up and down, never directly at the cracks.) -Mike
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I see I'm not the only one to discover the little rollers. I don't have alot of hives, but not a fan of painting.
Using the small roller does a super job in no time at all. In my case, I spend more time in preparation than I actually do painting.
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Yeap, me too I use a roller and hit the hand holds with a brush. A couple of coats and put them up until needed, usually 2 to 3 months. Not always but try to have some ready to use.
Joe
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I absolutely hate painting bee hives. I use a brush.
Ditto. The only thing I've found that makes the process easier is to buy a good quality paint and forget about the $5 cheapo mis tints.
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How about good quality mis tints?
I scored some $7.00 a gallon exterior that normally sells for $28.00. It's a nice light color.
I prefer stain and would really like to set up a dipping station someday.
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I would also like to set up a dipping station, a wax dipping station. Do it once and you are done.
Jim
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Mikecva
Toothpicks is what I used last year. My mistake was not driving into town to pick some flat ones. I used the box of round ones I had in the kitchen and the hive bodies were going all over the place like a circus act. LOL Lesson learned
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New at the whole Beekeeping thing but have been a contractor for years. In my experience, go with a 4" cigar roller to get the paint on and then have someone else come right behind you to brush it out... Its called laying it down. Makes a smoother finish, but i wouldnt use my sprayer because although it coats it fast, it does not obtain the same MIL thickness as a roller will....It would take two or three coats with the sprayer to get the same protection that the roller will give. Roller= longer life for your boxes. 8-)
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Jim if you get the dipping station going let me know. I would pay you to let me dip my boxes. I have 40 to start on tomorrow I normally use a 4in roller. I take a long 4x4 and put it on some saw horses. Then put the boxes through the 4x4 so you can just turn the boxes to get all four sides. On a nice day by the time I get to the end the first one is ready for the next coat.
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New at the whole Beekeeping thing but have been a contractor for years. In my experience, go with a 4" cigar roller to get the paint on and then have someone else come right behind you to brush it out... Its called laying it down. Makes a smoother finish
Hahaha :-D
For five summers I worked helping painting and wallpapering when I was in school.
Still cant stand it when I see that some one has not brushed out there paint and it looks like a stormy sea. :drowning: Not that i really maters on my poly hives, the painting is just sunscreen, but I still have to do a good job :brian:
mvh edward :-P
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He you can see a way to paint boxes without bending and getting paint, on your hands, multiple boxes and boards will make it easy to spin them around to paint all sides. A roller might speed things up.
mudsongs: How to Paint Beehives (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoRFd3EwFM#ws)
mvh edward :-P
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Jim if you get the dipping station going let me know. I would pay you to let me dip my boxes. I have 40 to start on tomorrow I normally use a 4in roller. I take a long 4x4 and put it on some saw horses. Then put the boxes through the 4x4 so you can just turn the boxes to get all four sides. On a nice day by the time I get to the end the first one is ready for the next coat.
Hi John,
The biggest hold up is I don't have enough wax. It will take a few more hives to get enough wax to do this. Right now Judy is using all of my light colored wax for candles. I will be keeping a look out for a dipping container.
Will you be at the meeting on Monday?
Jim
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Yes, I'll see you there.
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OK, great John.
Have you started to raise queens. Caught a swarm last week and it was full of drones.
Jim