We bisque to cone ^06 and glaze fire to cone ^6 oxidation.

These are community kilns, loaded by our techs at Ceramic Heights. We will treat your work like our own, but unfortunately, nothing is guaranteed in ceramics and sometimes pieces can get dinged or broken.

Firing is included in the price of classes or fees for studio time. Turn around time is dependent on your body of work. For instance, 8 mugs will get fired much much faster than 8 plates. If you have a tall piece, it might have to wait a little while before it has tall friends and they can all be loaded together. Every kiln load we grab a little bit from everyone to keep it as fair as possible (and moving along as quickly as possible).

What about glazing?
You are welcome to use our house glazes during classes or studio hours. Your glazes can also be used, but please test to see how much they run before you glaze a body of work. Not only does it mess up our shelves, but a runny glaze will usually break your pot, so it’s just better to avoid all around. And you will have to stop using them if it is a continued problem. If your pot looks scary to our techs (glaze falling off, too close to the bottom, heavy application) we will place a cookie under your piece as a precaution or not fire it at all.
If you are using BMix or porcelain, we recommend that you coat the bottom of your pots in alumina hydrate. This will usually protect your piece from plucking as some clays become self-glazing and stick to the shelf.

Outside Firings are Limited $15 per 12”x12” footprint
—This might be one 12” plate, 4 mugs, or 6 spoon rests, but it is whatever will lay flat (no stacking) inside of one foot squared. Both your glaze and bisque firings are included. Cone 5/6 or cone 10 clay only, please. We will ask. (For maximum confusability, Cone 06 and 6 are completely different temperatures, so if you buying online, mind the zero because we don’t accept 06 low fire clay.) You can bring your pieces in whenever we are open.