Did someone say cheap paint?
Assuming you need to paint a few hundred bee boxes every so often while either expanding or fixing up your existing bee boxes, then paint can become a fairly expensive item on the list.
However there may be a solution, to lowering your paint expenses, this as most hardware stores may have a paint section, and especially in spring we notice that in our local hardware store (Bunnings) they happen to have loads of miss-tinted paint usually sold at a fraction of its original price. Some paint may have already been opened and partially used. In other cases the bucket may be damaged etc. But you still have a good a mount of paint for a fairly good price.
On another note, when speaking of paint we found the following paint after watching two beekeepers operating in Serbia using ECOTHERM paint. The paint is said to be able to generate 6cm worth of polystyrene like insulation with coat as little as 1 mm of the special paint. Within our operation we use polystyrene boxes hence we don't require this special paint, however in an operation utilizing wooden boxes I could imagine quite a few thermal benefits of using this product.
URL to the paint found here: https://ecotherm.com/en/home/
Youtube link where Ecotherm is used
One interesting thing we found was their experiment showing one side of a frying pan being covered with the paint while the other half is not. Then the guys put an egg into the pan, while the one side nicely fry's the egg, the other remains cold and uncooked.
This has absolutely nothing to do with beekeeping, just should illustrate the powers of this magic paint. As said we have not yet tested this paint and just have conducted some "Youtube research".
Happy painting!
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Happy beekeeping,
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