Advantages

Normally square in cross- section

Disadvantages
Illegal if combs adhere to sides

facilitating construction.

and cannot be removed for

May be made of scrap material.

Only critical dimension is the

inspection.
Combs are very fragile
Not conductive to moving (heavy

width of the top-bar (1) which

and fragile)

must be used to facilitate

inspection.
May (in some peoples opinion) be a

Heavy lifting of boxes required as

more natural cavity for the bees

the boxes for colony growth are

to inhabit.

added on the bottom of the stack.