marianne kuiper milks on tue 2 aug 05
Greetings,
i hope I have the name right: I accidentally erased
the message page! Charles Moore's suggestion was on
that I contact you.
My kiln is a new 4 burner, top-loading gaskiln from
Olympic: 4 rings plus an extra (5"?) "dummy". We have
propane.
I am about to finish setting up my gas kiln. It is
already placed in the 10x 8 wooden shed. Three sides
are wood (uninsulated) and the fourth has 3'
fieldstone at the bottom (outer wall of the garage).
The floor is new cement, about 1' thick.The sidewalls
(3 sides) do not touch the ground and are open, about
10", to the ground. In the 10' section we made ceiling
to floor 4'x8' vents that open down/out to the ground
when firing.On the short side is a 5x3' vent opening
upward (closes, about 3', from the kiln)The opposite
wall has an unclosed entrance of about 6x8 feet.
Today the propane co. came by to figure where the
tanks will be and how the line will run.They were very
nervous about the proximity of the wooden wall above
the stone (which also reaches above the kiln) and the
wood ceiling.I explained that we are having a hood
made, large/wide enough to have clearance when we open
the kiln, to which we attach a stack of 9 feet, double
insulated/3 layers.In addition we are considering
adding a 4x8 sheet of fire-retardant board on the two
walls by the kiln.
Charles Moore said he uses a fan, directed at the
wall, to cool it off. That sounds logical to me as
well.
Do you have any suggestions that does not turn this
into Clayart's Best, but that makes sense and makes
life safer?
We can work on it really hard, but I do have a dealine
problem: we have a deaf boy from Germany here who came
to us for 4 weeks to do pottery. We each have to bring
20 bisqued pieces to our class at Peter's Valley
August.....12?
Your advice before was really good. I truly hope you
can tell me something that satisfied Eastern Propane
as well as us.
Have a great day. marianne kuiper Milks
They want to see, on paper (email is fine) what the
recommendations are - from any professional on
clayart. This is not a "now you are responsible"
thing. I can even cut the name etc off.
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