FIRING SERVICE

We have electric kilns to fire your precious creations

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PRICING

We prefer to fire bisque and midfire only, but we will do stoneware or earthenware on request if you have enough pieces to fill a kiln
Bisque firing (up to 1000 degrees or Cone 06) - $12 per kilo per firing
Glaze firing - earthenware (up to 1060 degrees or Cone 04) - $14 per firing

Glaze firing - midfire (up to 1240 degrees or Cone 6) - $16 per kilo per firing

Glaze firing - stoneware/porcelain (up to 1280 degrees or Cone 9) - $18 per kilo per firing
Prices include loading and unloading the kiln, equipment, materials, firing aids, programming, monitoring, and electricity.
You can use my glazes in my studio (I have many brush-on and dipping glazes to choose from)
- Glazes are charged by the weight of your piece after glazing at $7 per kg

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:

Minimum charge is $12
Work is weighed after firing.
Please pay on receipt of your invoice or when you collect your pieces.
Maximum height of pieces allowed is 35cm
Maximum width of pieces allowed is 40cm
It is essential that you know which clay you have used to make your pieces. Preferably have a photos of the pack to show us so that we can be sue we fire it to the correct temperature. W may reject reclaim clay if it contains any earthenware.
Please make sure that that you have your name/makers mark on each of your works, and let us know what your maker's mark is in the form
Drop off and pick up days and times are flexible. If I'm not here, you can leave your pieces on the table next to the kiln shed. Just text me or let me now beforehand when you want to come.
When you drop off your pieces, please fill in our form with the following information:
- Date dropped
- Your name
- Your maker's mark
- Contact details (phone and email)
- The type of clay used (brand name and temperature)
- Glazes used and temperature to fire

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GUIDELINES

Please read these guidelines carefully. When you drop your work off for firing it is understood that you have read and agreed to these guidelines.

Please try your best to deliver dry work. However, if that is not possible, then we will accept wet work, It will just take longer to dry and fire.
For glaze firings, please make sure that you have completely cleaned the bottoms of your pots. There should not be a drop of glaze on the bottom, and the glaze line should preferably be at least 5mm from the base. Otherwise there is a high likelihood that the glaze will run and the pot will stick to the kiln shelves. This will mean a destroyed pot, and incur you costs to you to repair the damaged shelf.
If it looks like there is an overly thick application of glaze or layered glazes, we may not fire your piece.
You may be required to provide kiln cookies (or setters). These are pads of clay (made of a white stoneware clay and slightly bigger than the base of the work) which protect the kiln shelf from glaze runs and contamination. We do have some, but it may help us if you provide them for your pieces if your work has any of the following:
- a runny glaze on it,
- black or blue underglaze/oxide covering the base,
- cobalt pencil or oxide as your makers mark,
- been made from iron rich clay like Buff Raku Trachyte (BRT) etc.
No large solid work will be accepted unless you can reassure us that it has been hollowed out.
Hollow work should have a small noticeable hole.
Please let us know if your work contains material other than clay – metal, paper, fabric, sponge, synthetics, etc. Some things are not suitable to be fired in a kiln and can cause damage to kiln infrastructure.
Pack your work carefully! We will mimmise the amount of handling our side will include:
- unpacking
- loading and unloading the kiln
- weighing
- repacking
If we notice that any items are broken as they are unpacked you will notified. We are very careful but it is your responsibility to ensure they make it to us intact.
We will not accept work which has been stuffed with paper or cardboard. This should be removed prior to drop off.
Please collect your work within one month of notification. Work not collected will be kept for one month. After that it becomes the property of OoPs - One-off Pottery Studio and will be repurposed or disposed of.

OTHER POTENTIAL COSTS:

Damaged kiln shelves - $15 to $50 to rectify
Ruined kiln shelves - up to $100 replacement fee
Damage to kiln infrastructure - $100
Clay melt downs will have a charge of - $100
Please call us if you are planning to fire many small items, like beads and children's pieces These may attract an additional cost as they are light, small, very time consuming and tricky to load.
If your pieces affect someone else's during firing (like glaze flashing), you might need to cover their firing too.

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Firing Pottery is a tricky, unpredictable (but exciting) affair!

DISCLAIMER

Please bear in mind that ceramics and kilns can be a bit unpredictable and surprising at times! But that is what is exciting and fun about ceramics. There will always some risk when you send your pieces to us. But don’t worry, we will treat your creations like our own! We’ll handle and fire your work with lots of care, but One-off Pottery Studio isn’t responsible for any breakages or glaze mishaps.

If the kiln has fired correctly and the faults are due to issues in your making process (like S-cracks, fine hair cracks, dunting, or warping, crazed or uneven glaze) then we will not be held responsible for them.

If we underfire something, we’ll let you know and refire it for free. If it gets overfired by mistake, (this can happen if the thermocouple or elements malfunction) – we won’t charge you for that but the work is likely to be damaged.

If the kiln causes any damage, like a rare case of a stack collapse, we will refund your firing costs. But we won't be liable to replace any lost work.

And one last thing, if your work missing, that’s on you to pick it up on time.

Thanks for understanding!