>>My question is on how to clean the frames and boxes.  Do I just toss out the foundation and all and order new?

Why do you feel you must clean the hives/frames?  Unless you find 
positive evidence of disease or infection, you can just re-stock the 
hives with new bees.

Freeze all the frames that have comb in them.  This would include frames with honey, frames with pollen, and frames with brood, in fact, any frames that have more than foundation in them.  Keep frozen for about a week and then wrap in plastic bags and thaw.  The bags keep moisture from condensing on the equipment that was in the freezer which would encourage mold and mildew.The freezing kills all pests which would destroy your good comb, like wax moth and small hive beetles.  Keep the stuff in the bags until ready to install new bees on the equipment.  You might still have some problems with honey that hadn't been dried and capped.  Even after freezing it might ferment in the comb.  Good luck

Mike in LA

       
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