> The floors we are using are made in Germany and Sweden...
> I cannot see how they would be much used if the cold caused
> problems... The floors in question...(have the) centre portion
> (approx 50%) of the floor is replaced by a mesh screen.

Years back, we had some discussion on this and I went searching.  We had a
contributor from Norway, and he used something of this sort with no top
entrance. P-O also had some good comments, as did David Eyre and others.

To find some of that discussion, go to
http://listserv.albany.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=bee-l
and use
(Norway OR Sweden) AND (winter AND bottom)
in the 'Search for:' window.
and activate the 'Substring Search' checkbox

The output of the search will be listed, with short excerpts of the articles
farther down the page and links to the full article.  I personally hold down the
'Shift' key when I follow the links, so a new page opens for each and I do not
lose my search.

If you want to continue any of those threads, you can reply right from the
archive page.  If this is the first time you have tried posting from the BEE-L
archives, I advise that you press 'Ctrl' + 'n' after you write your response
(that makes a duplicate page) and before you push the 'send' button.  On your
first post from the page, you have to identify yourself, and the first time I
did it I lost all my work on the response in the moving back and forth between
pages.  Subsequent efforts simply post without any problems.

allen
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