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afternoon

I'm building some national beehives and I was wondering why they have metal roofs. I was going to put shed felt on mine unless I'm missing something.

cheers
 
That makes sense. The metal is hard wearing, the felt would rip.

I will put metal on the roof then
 
I use a mixture of felt and metal roofs. The downside to metal roofs is bees when they're wet bees get stuck to them.
I put my roofs upside down on the ground (uneven stone pavers) to stack boxes on and have never had roof felt rip yet.
 
Shed felt works well. I have one,
HEAVY, heavy, heavy.
 
I made up 10 a couple of days ago. Shed felt on top with a good helping of sheep’s wool to act as insulation.
 
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