Hi all and Happy New Year, . I have a question. I have been told by a friend that I can't sell my honey and that I shouldn't use it myself because I didn't paint my hive either. I wanted it to look like 'the box next to the tree with the scaffold and the ladder and the fish stand....'. So whaen I put my hive together I painted it with HQ brand wood preservative. I was very careful to only paint the outside facings of the deep supers and honey super, the 3 outside facings of the bottom board, and the 4 outside and 4 bottom edge facings of the top cover. My friend is saying that my honey will be contaminated. Is this so? Carl [log in to unmask] ... If you turn the battery around the Energizer Bunny keeps coming and.. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20