2024-01-27 Maintenance

Thoughts and ideas for our maintenance/shed move day.

Parking area

• ❏ Dig out drainage ditch

• ❏ Fix white fence outlining parking area

• ❏ Fix number plate signs on the main gate, so they don’t sag

• ❏ Weed existing gravel area, or weedkill?

Club house

• ❏ Clean gutters

• ❏ Paint walls outside

• ❏ Clean & restock toilet

  • Toilet roll

  • Hand soap

  • Hand towels

  • Air freshener

• ❏ Clean floor

• ❏ Clean windows, inside & out.

• ❏ Woodburner, remove ash.

• ❏ Record water meter reading

• ❏ Lubricate door latches & hinges, including fire door.

• ❏ Log store, sweap if empty.

• ❏ Septic tank???

Driveway

• ❏ Distribute dumpy bag of gravel

Apiary

• Unused wooden supers and brood boxes.

  • ❏ Sand

  • ❏ Paint

• Old brood/super frames

  • ❏ Steam clean

  • ❏ Scrape and prep for resuse

• ❏ Clean feeders

• ❏ Fix damaged equipment

• ❏ Clean & tidy container

• ❏ Sand & paint wooden shed

• ❏ Clean gutters

• ❏ Lubricate container hinges & window latches

• ❏ Replace rotten wood in some hive stands

Equipment & Tools Needed

• Ladder to access gutters

• Paint

  • Shed paint

  • Hive paint in lots of colours

• Paint brushes or rollers

• Cleaning products

  • Gloves

  • Bleach spay

  • Floor cleaner

  • Bog cleaner

  • Cloths (glass, floor, kitchen, toilet)

• Shovel/spades

• Mattock

• Wood planks 2.4m 2 by 4

• Buckets

• Trugs

• Wheel barrow

• Secateurs

• Bush cutter

• Gardening gloves

• Laser level

• Spirit level

• Tape mesaure

• Sand paper + block

• Trugs

• Dustpan & brush

• Metal scouring balls

• Washing soda

• Black rubbish sacks