How To Keep Clay Out of Your Ceramic Studio Plumbing!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 14 січ 2024
- Working with clay comes with some risks that need to be addressed to prevent damage. One of these things is the prevention of getting quantities of clay within your plumbing of your studio. Clay within the plumbing is terribly problematic, as it can completely clog your pipes. One of the first things I knew I needed in my home studio was a clay trap to prevent sediment from going into my drain. That with my pre-rinse bucket keeps the majority of the clay sediment from settling in the pipes where it shouldn’t be. Although I don’t address it in the video, I also pre rinse all my aprons and towels prior to washing in my washing machine.
This video shows my 2 step method I use in my home studio to keep clay out of my plumbing. I use a GLECO trap under my sink to catch the sediment that makes it down my drain. But, before it makes it down my drain, I do a pre-rinse in a bucket within my sink that catches the majority of the sediment. The trap I empty into my trash, and the bucket, I empty outside. If you want to know more about gleco traps, and which one might work for your sink height check them out here. www.practicon.com/Gleco-Trap-...
Please subscribe to my channel to get the latest updates on this video series, AND, subscribe to my NEW wheel throwing playlist too! (I am keeping it as a separate list from the old wheel throwing playlist!) Here is a direct link to the new playlist! • NEW Wheel Throwing Pla...
Check out your local pottery suppliers- I love my favorite local supplier- Cornell Studio Supply in Dayton… give them a call, they’re super helpful! (And tell them I sent you!) cornellstudiosupply.com/
For the great tools, materials, and suppliers I recommend check out this link to a live searchable (control F) Googledoc I continually update with lots of my favorite tools on Amazon using my associate links! docs.google.com/document/d/1X...
I made this video for my Ceramics II, III, and independent studyI students at Mason High School. I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 33 years, over the past 27 have been specifically teaching high school ceramics.
I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; www.etsy.com/shop/KaransPotsA...
I started my UA-cam channel a few years ago, to make videos to help my students if they are absent and miss a demo, or if they would like to explore more advanced techniques independently. I have been amazed to reach such a wider audience than my own students!
Please subscribe to my channel if you would like to receive channel updates, or would like to learn more about clay and studio processes! Follow me on all social medias under KaransPotsAndGlass!
![물레로 만드는 손잡이가 있는 그릇 : Making a Pottery on the Wheel [ONDO STUDIO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1nmCFxN6TAg/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank you, Karan. It is so important to keep clay out of your plumbing and especially out of your septic. However, the chemicals in your pre-wash bucket will contaminate your creek water, especially if you dump it directly into the creek. I use the process you described earlier. Let the sludge dry and put it into the trash. Yes, it does pollute the landfill, but the ratio of chemicals is negligible.
Good point- I may start doing that a well! Currently, I just dump it in my woods- near to my creek, I have a bit of a small pile that erodes slowly with the rain- and when the creek rises it washes it away!
@@KaransPotsAndGlass thank you for considering the health of the ecology of your creek.
You can’t underestimate the importance of the gasket. Months after cleaning my trap I found water on the floor of my slop sink. I believed there may be a leak in the wall of my studio which is below ground. The water was found eight feet from the sink. After much investigation I took the trap apart and discovered a loose gasket. It is very important to make certain the gasket is firmly in place after installing or cleaning the trap. Thank you for your video!
Thanks for your insight!!!
Very helpful, thank you!
Love your videos! One suggestion I've heard for dried out glaze/slip is to put it into a bucket that seals and then (when full) drop that bucket off wherever you would dispose of hazardous materials/chemicals. With this, while the materials may be going into a landfill, they are presumably being handled and disposed of in a way that is the most environmentally safe. I don't have a water line/sink in my studio - you can imagine the number of buckets I have to allow slip/glaze/mop water to settle. It's a lot!
Thank you for the thoughtful comment! The overwhelmingly majority of the stuff in my bucket is definitely clay slip. There would be a very minimal amount of glaze residue that would be in there! Not really the hazardous chemical bucket that people are feeling it might be! But thank you for the good suggestion! I only dump this bucket about twice a year, so it’s not that much of a quantity of slip during a full year’s time putting it out in my woods!
Thanks, girl!!
So the clay water goes down the sink, then into the trap. How does it not fill up the first day? Does the water at the top of the bottle get directed to pipes that go into the septic system? It looks like gravity would make all the water accumulate into the bottle and then start backing up into the sink? Please explain? Thanks so much for your videos. I really appreciate your sharing your knowledge so generously.
Karan, can you put a link here for the Glayco Trap please?
Sure- I also have it in the video description above! www.practicon.com/Gleco-Trap-by-Practicon
Isn’t the stuff you are pouring into your creek polluting the creek? After all, there are probably chemicals in the glazes that might be in that clay water.
Why are you dumping glaze chemicals in your creek. Where do those chemicals end on their journey?
Hi - I addressed this in another comment earlier. I actually misspoke in the video- I do dump the slip in my woods- which is near-ish to a creek. Not putting it directly in. The slip bucket is overwhelmingly clay rather than any glaze. It's just contaminated enough I can't use it as slip. All sorts of yucky stuff in it when I clean my floors. The slip pile does eventually break down and go into the ground and would also get washed away in a heavy rain. If I put it in the trash, it also would eventually go back to the ground as well... I am just keeping this out of the landfill.
Not into the creek please!!!!!
I actually misspoke when I said that! I do not dump it into the creek. I dump it into the land that is wooded and it leeches through the soil there. It’s actually a good 50 yards from the creek. I have never regretted miss speaking so much as I did in this video because of the reception I have received from people! Whoops!
@@KaransPotsAndGlass Actually I got to thinking after I spoke, clay is a natural substance found in the ground, and probably in the creek. So Maybe. I was wrong. Sorry