Debbie that configuration would be difficult to get the right slope to assist with draining the flow frames. I’m not sure why you wouldn’t have them run the same way as your Lang frames. Have a search on the forum there are a few different examples of LL with flow frames.
Adam
I was thinking of the rails inside being placed at the correct angle - but excellent point.
The reason I was thinking of this, was to still have the luxury of the three viewing windows.
Crossing the frames is one way of making it work, there may be issues for the bees in the ventilation or even the girls building cross comb to keep everything aligned. The girls normally use the centre frames for brood and the outside frames for honey. Your design only has honey frames on one side which may not get filled if it is easier for them to use the standard frames for honey on the other side.
Thank you for your input!
With the Flow frames crossed and a queen excluder between them and the other frames, would they not be inclined to do brood etc on the other side of the excluder?
My thoughts were to only open access to the Flow frames when the rest were full - treating that end as a ‘super’ if you will.
As to the ventilations- good point! That I hadn’t taken into consideration. Will have to give it some more thought. I can see me tinkering with this one for a few years until I have at least some actual hands on knowledge.
The bees will still put honey in the standard frames on the opposite side to the flow frames. Bees really do like symmetry.