>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 02:11:13 -0500 >From: "<Mary Sellhorn>" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Honey House plans > >We are planning to build a honey house to use for storing all my equipment >and for processing our honey. We are just hobby beekeepers at this point > (only 8 hives) but planning to expand to as many as 30 hives. Does anyone >have suggestions for a honey house? My son-in-law is drawing plans and >wants to know what to include. >My husband plans to make it abou 20ft. by 10 ft with plumbing and >electricity. Anyone out there who has built a honey house have suggestions? >Mary > Mary, I second the idea to build larger if you possibly can. Depending on what you will have in your extracting set up, a pit in the floor (with drain) might be a good idea. I have such a pit in the floor of my honey house. The extractor on floor level empties into a jacketed sump sitting in the pit. Following the sump in a small honey pump with long hose to pump into strainers over drums or tanks. Jim King, Riegelsville, PA