mixing foundationless with foundation?

[Michael Bush]

Perfect.  Not a problem.  Side to side is the issue.

[Brian D. Bray]

Oh and one more thing...the hives tilt slightly forward and are level from side to side.  Could this be a problem with foundationless?

With foundationless you'll find the bees to be a little more airborne than with foundation as opening the hive knocks a lot of the festooned bees free and with the open top they fly.  Once they have a few partial frames of foundation drawn this is reduced a lot.  The front to back slant won't bother anything but the side to side can make green comb bend and you can end up with a new frame of green comb being attached to a more mature frame of comb.

[Natalie]

I'm pondering installing a couple of my packages foundationless.  Anybody know exactly what i need to do?  Do i need to put wire in the frames?  Just curious to see how everybody is doing it.

I am doing foundationless too but I haven't tried the starter strips or popsicle sticks, so I can't comment on that.
I had some topbars made with the triangle cut into it all the way across and then I bought the end bars and solid bottom bars and assembled them.
They came out great.
I put them in the super with drawn foundation for them to use as guides.