The Beehaus

A Complete Package

The Beehaus from Omlet makes keeping bees and collecting your own honey fun and rewarding. Bees are probably the most fascinating and certainly the smallest food producing animals you can keep at home. Now you can enjoy the amazing experience of beekeeping in your own garden or even on your rooftop. The Beehaus comes complete with everything you need to get started, you'll receive all the extras such as frames and wax foundation that you need before your bees arrive.

Inspired by the way bees live in the wild and building on the classic principles of beekeeping, you will find the Beehaus a delight to use. Omlet's service and support will give you all the confidence you need to keep bees in your garden.

Beekeeping is a fun, social and rewarding hobby..

The Beehaus has two entrances, a central divider and space for two colonies.

Two Hives in One!

The brood box has two entrances - one at either end. There is enough space to accommodate 22 frames, which is double the number of frames in a traditional National hive. In spring when the queen is laying at her maximum rate your bees will be rapidly expanding in number. The extra space in the Beehaus allows you to either a) expand the hive as a single colony or b) divide the hive in two and start a second colony. This is an effective method of managing your bees’ natural urge to swarm.

Space For The Whole Colony

Modern bees need more space than they did in the past because queens have been bred to be more prolific egg layers. The Beehaus uses deep National frames (14”x12”) that allow the whole colony to live in a single brood box. This simplifies inspecting your bees and is less disruptive to the bees compared to being housed in a double brood box system. Your bees will be calmer and easier to work with.

Light and Easy To Move

The Beehaus comes with four ‘supers’ for the bees to store honey. You place these boxes on top of the hive in the spring when the bees start collecting nectar. The supers use a standard National super frame. However for easy handling, the Beehaus’ super boxes are half the size and therefore half the weight of a traditional super box.

The supers are easier to lift and handle than traditional super. No more bad backs from lifting!

Twin Wall Insulation

The innovative all-round double layer insulation helps keep your bees warm in the winter and cool in the summer. This is important as bees need to maintain a stable 35°C in the hive. They control variations in temperature by vibrating their bodies to generate heat or by using their wings as fans to circulate cool air.

Good Ventilation

The mesh floor ensures your bees have good air flow within the hive. It also allows debris and mites to fall out and this helps keep your bees healthy.

Mesh floor and inspection tray.

Twin Wall Insulation keeps your bees cool in the summer, and warm in the winter!

Pick the colour which suits your garden.

Looks Great in your Garden or on your Rooftop

The Beehaus will bring your garden to life. Its compact shape means that finding a suitable spot is easy and the large range of attractive colours will suit any garden. You can keep bees whether you live in a town or the country. Bees are kept very successfully in urban gardens and rooftops where they forage in gardens and parks. Urban honey has a delicious flavour from the wide variety of plants available. In the country bees can collect nectar from crops, orchards and wild flowers.

Comfortable Height

The Beehaus is raised off the ground on sturdy legs. You don’t have to bend to lift heavy boxes as you do with traditional hives. Having the top of the hive at a convenient height and with space alongside to rest tools makes the job much easier.

The image above shows an illustration of the Beehaus next to a national and WBC hive. You can see that the Beehaus is more spacious and set at a better working height than traditional hives

Transferring your bees to the Beehaus.

The Queen Bee

Collecting Honey!

Naturally, your bees wouldn’t expect to be able to live in such magnificent accommodation as the Beehaus rent free. You can collect an average of 50 jars of honey per year - although in a good year a colony may produce up to 100kg of honey! The amount depends on the size of the colony, the weather and the quantity and quality of the nectar near the bees. You’ll need to leave your bees with between 10 and 15kg of supplies to see them through the winter.

How to Harvest Honey

The simplest way of harvesting the honey is to uncap the comb and then scrape the honey into a colander which is sitting over a large container. The honey will drain from the wax into the container below. You can further strain the mush of wax by wrapping it in muslin cloth and the beeswax can then be used to make soap, candles, furniture polish, and a whole range of other useful things!

As the old beekeepers' saying goes, "There's nothing better than spreading thick, delicious honey onto a slice of piping hot toast - except when it's been collected by your very own bees!"

Starter Pack - Only £30 Extra

Every beekeeper needs a beesuit with sturdy gloves, a hive tool and a smoker. Omlet has the best available and you can order them as part of the Beehaus Starter Kit package for only £30! This saves you £90 over the cost of buying them separately. You can purchase additional beesuits, gloves, smoker and tools in our beekeepers supply shop.

The full-length professional Beekeeper’s suit with veil will mean you can get close to your bees in safety. It can even be washed in a normal washing machine.

Our top-quality rubber gloves with gauntlets are just the thing to give you confidence when working with your bees and can be washed clean.

No need to use a hot, dangerous smoker to calm your bees - we supply a modern liquid smoke atomiser. You receive 50ml of concentrated liquid smoke and a 600ml atomiser. Simply fill the atomiser up with water and you’re ready to go.

Our heavy-duty steel hive tool makes opening the hive and lifting frames a doddle and give you years of reliable use.