Craig Fulladosa on wed 14 jun 06
I am tiling a bathroom shower for a friend/client and have been cutting a great deal of tile for a mosaic design. The tile is porcelain and ceramic commercial tile. I have been dumping the water on the ground from the wetsaw and she thinks that has killed her plants. It hasn't been a hell of a lot of tile or water, but does anyone know if that fine clay dust is bad for the plants? I figured it was dirt where it came from but I guess it can have toxic minerals in it like lead or barium depending on what is in the glazes? What about the clay is that toxic too to the plants?
Let me know so I can remedy. Till I find out I will stop dumping on ground and move the dumping next door to the neighbors garden.
Thanks
Craig
the clayman
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Richard White on thu 15 jun 06
Can you do a pH test on the wastewater? If you don't have testing material
just lying around (and only a few of us do), you could pick up/borrow
something for swimming pools or fish aquariums. There are two main styles -
a few drops of phenol test solution into a small tube of water sample and
then observe the color change to various shades of red or orange; or a
small plastic dip strip with a pad on the end that changes color when
dipped in the water and then compare to the colors printed on the side of
the package. I'm guessing here that the cutting dust in the water, though
perhaps not an EPA-registered herbicide, is pushing the pH way out of range
for those particular plants in the garden.
dw
m.mshelomi on thu 15 jun 06
Have no scientific back up.
Only what I have done for years and observed.
I dump clay water in one of my plant beds near the studio.
When I tiled the house, the slurry from the wet saw and from
cleaning tools went on the lawn near the back door.
Not a blade of grass or plant has died or even wilted.
pottermim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Fulladosa"
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Subject: tile residue killing plants?
>I am tiling a bathroom shower for a friend/client and have been cutting a
>great deal of tile for a mosaic design. The tile is porcelain and ceramic
>commercial tile. I have been dumping the water on the ground from the
>wetsaw and she thinks that has killed her plants. It hasn't been a hell of
>a lot of tile or water, but does anyone know if that fine clay dust is bad
>for the plants? I figured it was dirt where it came from but I guess it can
>have toxic minerals in it like lead or barium depending on what is in the
>glazes? What about the clay is that toxic too to the plants?
>
> Let me know so I can remedy. Till I find out I will stop dumping on
> ground and move the dumping next door to the neighbors garden.
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig
> the clayman
shaw pottery on fri 16 jun 06
Possibly it is not the content of the water that is damaging the
plants, but simply the amount? Any sudden or large change in the
amount of water a plant is accustomed to receiving can cause it
problems. Even those that love water can suffer when they get too
much.
More houseplants die from overwatering than any other cause, I have
always heard.
Just a thought,
Rita
Shaw Pottery
PS We are celebrating a bit at our home. I was just accepted into the
Santa Barbara Art and Craft Show where Joe shares his pottery with
the world passing by. But I will be showing my photography, not
pottery.
I call what I do "fiddlecraft photography" because I take digital
photos (now, thankfully, lots of expensive film before) until I find
some I love.
Then I fiddle around with them on the computer and transform them
into watercolors. But my "stage name" will probably be "Shaw
Photography" to blend in with the potter set up next to me! What do
you guys think... "Shaw Photography" or "Fiddlecraft Photography"?
What sounds better? Or a blend of "Shaw Fiddlecraft Pottery"?
>I am tiling a bathroom shower for a friend/client and have been
>cutting a great deal of tile for a mosaic design. The tile is
>porcelain and ceramic commercial tile. I have been dumping the water
>on the ground from the wetsaw and she thinks that has killed her
>plants. It hasn't been a hell of a lot of tile or water, but does
>anyone know if that fine clay dust is bad for the plants? I figured
>it was dirt where it came from but I guess it can have toxic
>minerals in it like lead or barium depending on what is in the
>glazes? What about the clay is that toxic too to the plants?
>
> Let me know so I can remedy. Till I find out I will stop dumping
>on ground and move the dumping next door to the neighbors garden.
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig
> the clayman
>
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