Deep frames in medium supers ?

[qabloona]

Just finished installing my first bees. Got my  used hives a couple of months ago and got my bees today. Only when I started to install them did I realize that all my supers were medium but the 4 frames in my nucs were large. I just went ahead and installed the deep frames in 2 medium supers. These deep frames are well drawn out. If I just leave things the way they are will there be negative consequences ? I am so new at this that I am not even green yet but had a great time and loved every minute :-D
Many thanks
Dave in Ottawa, Canada

[irekkin]

if you have some lumber around you could build a deep, it's not that big of a deal. if you're not in to carpentry you can order one. they're pretty cheap. if you let nature take it's course the worst that can happen is the bees building a couple more inches of comb off the bottoms of the frames. good luck.

[Eshu]

The bees will build comb from the bottom of the frames to fill in the extra space.  Having the deep frames in two mediums will complicate matters.  If I were you I would get those nucs in the correct size boxes with enough deep frames to fill in.  You can then use the mediums for everything else.

In a pnch you could add 1x4 lumber to the bottom of the medium boxes.  The result would be a half inch taller than a standard deep.  The simplest option would be to just buy a couple deeps.  By the time you get them, there may be some comb built off the bottoms of the frames that you will have to cut off.

[qabloona]

Took the simplest way out and bought a couple of deeps with frames, $46 for the pair, second hand. Turned out also I was using the escape board as a top feeder. Fortunately no harm done. Bees seem fine in spite of my screw-ups.
This is fun.

[Michael Bush]

Just make sure you have every possible space you can fit a medium frame in filled.  They will build 3" or so under the deep frames.  You can cut this off and tie it in a frame someday.  But then you could also cut any brood out of the deeps and tie it into a medium frame as well.