Jeff & Melanie Boock on wed 18 aug 99
Hello everyone,
I am currently building a hard brick salt kiln here in Minturn,
Colorado, at 8000ft. and my studio partner and I have come to the
conclusion that the old, wooden, matchstick dry shed housing the kiln
is not the safest container for this hard brick, heat radiating
beast, and he has decided that we will be tearing down the old shed
and building a new, metal oriented kiln shed. Along with the 31 cuft
salt kiln, we will be installing a prefab softbrick or fiber kiln of
approximately the same size in the new shed next to the salty one. So
my exterior dimensions of the new shed will be 16x12 ft.
Any suggestions on how to design/build this thing? Think snow, and
lots of it (350 inches a year, at least on the mountain 5 miles
away). I had considered angle iron framing, I know we will be using a
metal roof, and we will need walls of some sort.
Beyond that, I am COMPLETELY open to ideas and suggestions.
Thanks!
Jeff Boock
jeff@boock.com
p.s. Any suggestions on manufactured reduction kilns good at our
altitude, 8000ft (thinking forced air) would be great too, 25-30 cuft
stackable space.
David Hendley on thu 19 aug 99
My view, evidently not widly held judging by kiln sheds
I see in person and in photographs, is that ALL kiln sheds
should be ALL metal.
I've just heard too many stories of potter's fires, and I had my
own wake-up call when I caught my wood-framed shed
on fire 8 years ago.
If you can weld, just sink some pipes for poles, weld up a
framework of "C" and "Z" rafters, and then screw on sheet metal
roofing.
This is the stuff all metal buildings and sheds are made out of.
If you aren't up to it, just call some metal building builders
and tell them what you want. This is a tiny job and they could
have it up in a day or two.
As for the snow, just make sure the roof has enough pitch
to shed the snow. The locals will know what's needed.
As for walls, I don't really know what kind of weather
you have. If it nice half the year or more, I would suggest
removable wall sections, at least on a couple of sides.
It it's windy and cold most of the time, I suspect you really
need a building, and not a shed.
Finally, I would suggest that you consider a larger covered area.
A 16 X 12' shed for a 30 cu. ft. kiln will allow rain and snow to
blow onto the kiln, and a 16 X 12' enclosed building might
make you feel pretty cramped, competing for space with 2 kilns.
So there you go, a guy from Texas telling you how to build a
shed for a snowy area.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
hendley@tyler.net
http://www.farmpots.com
At 12:50 PM 8/18/99 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hello everyone,
>
>I am currently building a hard brick salt kiln here in Minturn,
>Colorado, at 8000ft. and my studio partner and I have come to the
>conclusion that the old, wooden, matchstick dry shed housing the kiln
>is not the safest container for this hard brick, heat radiating
>beast, and he has decided that we will be tearing down the old shed
>and building a new, metal oriented kiln shed. Along with the 31 cuft
>salt kiln, we will be installing a prefab softbrick or fiber kiln of
>approximately the same size in the new shed next to the salty one. So
>my exterior dimensions of the new shed will be 16x12 ft.
>
>Any suggestions on how to design/build this thing? Think snow, and
>lots of it (350 inches a year, at least on the mountain 5 miles
>away). I had considered angle iron framing, I know we will be using a
>metal roof, and we will need walls of some sort.
>
>Beyond that, I am COMPLETELY open to ideas and suggestions.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jeff Boock
>jeff@boock.com
>
>p.s. Any suggestions on manufactured reduction kilns good at our
>altitude, 8000ft (thinking forced air) would be great too, 25-30 cuft
>stackable space.
>
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