Noel Gilliam on mon 19 feb 07
Have any of you heard of venting a kiln through the kitchen sink vent? I haven't......This sounds crazy...
My kiln is located in the below ground level part of the basement near the kitchen vent. Relocating the kiln would interrupt the "flow" of work and the electrical would be expensive.
The contractor suggested the kitchen vent. He seems to know what he is talking about....but, I don't know..................figured you all would know!
Thanks,
Noel
Noel Gilliam
Palmetto GA 30268
www.impressionsatlittlehouse.com
claystevslat on wed 21 feb 07
Noel -- Kitchen sink vents are usually 1 1/2 inch pipe; and their
function is to vent sewer gasses. So, first, you probably don't
want to mess with that system, and second, it might well not have
sufficient capacity to move the gasses anyway (depends on your vent
type).
Maybe the contractor was thinking of another vent ... still not a
hyper-good solution, as you might mingle the exhausts. We always
think of exhaust going straight up the pipe and out the vent, but
sometimes it ends up backing up. Not a problem if the sweet smell
of a pizza baking gets into your kiln, but you probably don't want
glaze vapors getting into the coq au vin. Or the air you breathe in
the house.
It's a less pretty solution to vent out just above ground level as
you might with a dryer in the basement, but it might be a better
solution (and it wouldn't require digging up your entire house to
create a vent route).
JMTC -- Steve Slatin
--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Noel Gilliam wrote:
>
> Have any of you heard of venting a kiln through the kitchen sink
vent? I haven't......This sounds crazy...
>
> My kiln is located in the below ground level part of the basement
near the kitchen vent. Relocating the kiln would interrupt
the "flow" of work and the electrical would be expensive.
>
> The contractor suggested the kitchen vent. He seems to know what
he is talking about....but, I don't know..................figured
you all would know!
> Thanks,
>
> Noel
>
>
> Noel Gilliam
> Palmetto GA 30268
> www.impressionsatlittlehouse.com
>
>
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Vince Pitelka on wed 21 feb 07
As Steve Slatin pointed out, a kitchen sink vent is designed to keep sewer
gases from backing up and entering the house, and about the last thing you
would ever want to do is splice into that system. Is it possible that the
contractor meant the kitchen exhaust fan? That would still be a bad idea,
and your contractor should have known better if that was what he was
suggesting. There would be too much chance of the kiln fumes entering the
house through the kitchen vent, rather than exhausting to the outside.
There really is no way to combine your kiln vent system with any other kind
of vent without expensive and exotic HVAC aparatus, which would be
prohibitively expensive. You never ever want to have a kiln in home or
basement without a proper vent system. There has to be a way to run your
vent exhaust outside thorugh a window pane or some other avenue.
Good luck -
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
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Noel Gilliam on thu 22 feb 07
Thank you Steve and Vince,
I knew it didn't sound right to vent the kiln through the sink, but then.....what do I know!
Thanks for the reasons why. I have decided to forfeit the wood stove and use that opening for the kiln. Moving the kiln to a window or ground level just won't work. So good-bye wood stove.
Again, thanks,
Noel
Noel Gilliam
Chattahooche Hill Country
Palmetto, GA 30268
www.impressionatlittlehouse.com
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