Pricing
If you make pottery at home (or plan to) and need a place to fire your work send us a message! We offer cone 6 firing, $25 for a half shelf or $40 for a full shelf. For reference, each half-shelf can hold between 12-15 medium sized mugs and our price includes both a bisque and glaze firing for each of your pieces.
If your work only requires a single firing, the shelf rates will be $15 for a half and $30 for a full.
If you would like to rent the entire kiln for a large piece of work or to try a different firing program or cone temperature for your pieces, the price is $125 for each firing.
Drop Off
When your pieces are ready to be fired, bring them to us. We are located at 2607 35th Street in Vernon, BC. and you can drop off your work during the drop-in times listed on our Studio Calendar. If these drop-in times do not work for you (our hours are quiet limited sometimes) please contact us to arrange a drop-off time. We fire our kiln every Tuesday, the drop-off deadline for each kiln is always noon the Monday before as we load the kiln Monday afternoons for Tuesdays firing. Our firings alternating between bisque and glaze, in the event that there is not enough work to fill the kiln, the scheduled kiln will be pushed to the next Tuesday, which will shift the rotation between bisque and glaze. Our calendar will be updated regularly to reflect any changes so please refer to it often.
Kiln loads will be available for pick up during drop-in hours on the Thursday following each firing.
Kiln users are welcome to drop of work at any time, you don't have to wait until the day before the firing. The more stuff we get in ahead of time the sooner we'll know if the kiln will be full enough to run. If you are on our kiln user email list we will try to send reminder emails about upcoming kilns.
Please e-mail lydsceramics@gmail.com to be added to our user list!
Glazing Rules
Kiln users are required to use commercial cone 6 glazes unless you are experienced with glaze chemistry and mixing and have talked with us first. Users must also ensure all pieces are clean of glaze where they will be sitting on the kiln shelf and provide cookies for your pieces to sit on if you are working with a new glaze. Any significant damage to the kiln shelves as a result of your glaze choices will result in a shelf replacement charge of $65. Any piece deemed unsafe for the kiln or the work of others will not be fired.
Pick up
Our studio is small so please plan to pick up your work as soon as possible. Our studio does not provide glazes at this time, however if kiln users would rather not transport their wares home for glazing they are welcome to take advantage of studio drop-in's to glaze their pieces. Personal glazes and decorating materials can be brought to the studio for this and you'll just be asked to pay the $15 drop-in fee or use your punch pass.
WARNING
We are a community kiln. Your work is being fired with the work of others, and each person is allowed to fire their own clay and projects that they have worked on from home. We do our very best to make sure all clay and glazes being used meet our requirements, and we ask that you take all these requirements seriously. Using the wrong type of clay or glaze for the firing program can severely damage the kiln and the work of others. Please use our firing services with caution.
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