Pottery Studio Water Systems - My eco-friendly at home pottery studio WITHOUT a sink!
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- How to manage water in your pottery studio! This is a vital question for anyone setting up a pottery studio at home. In this video, I will share with you my ENTIRE studio water system, how I manage a pottery studio without a sink, how to dispose of ceramic glaze responsibly, and how I reclaim my clay. Enjoy!
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(I couldn’t find a model like the one I am using, but after some research it seems like this is a popular sink trap alternative).
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0:00 - intro
0:30 - my studio ethos (simplicity & sustainability)
1:24 - reclaim
4:22 - glaze waste
7:05 - glaze disposal options
11:40 - everything else (waste water)
13:00 - gravity filter for waste water
16:12 - how to clean the gravity filter
17:53 - get the printout! 
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TIP : I gently scrap the bottom of my pots above it's glaze bucket before wiping with a sponge. The powdered glaze just falls back into it's bucket. You can use any flat surface tool, like a trimming tool, knife, etc.
Putting the buckets on rolling bases - that was an aha moment for me, thank you! Also the "Mystery glaze" - that's something I'll really enjoy trying out.
Thank you SO MUCH for this video. I am an art teacher with almost 0 ceramics experience, and I was thrown into teaching a high school ceramics class this year. There are so many videos on how to make pottery, but not enough videos about managing a studio! I can't believe it took me half a school year to find this. So anyway, THANK YOU!!!!
im glad it was helpful for you! i also couldnt believe there are not more videos on this topic. it is so important!
No way me too! I’ve been watching all her vids to teach myself. We got this!
you are a galaxy brained genius for sharing all these details!!! I am already thing of how i can adapt some of your tips for my own little studio. Thank you for sharing💖
I’m so glad you found it useful! I love systems hehe
thank you for all that do not just for the online community but for out planet
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your knowledge! What you´re doing with these videos is so helpful!
I grew up where we had to pay the fire brigade to fill a cistern for our house. So I really approve of your water systems!
That was a great video! I am setting up my studio in an independent room from my house, where there's no water connection whatsoever haha so I've been designing the water system for a couple months. One thing I recommend for your water "stinkiness" is to attach a filter on the exit of your existing gravity filter, with activated charcoal pellets or granulate; it is an excellent odor remover. :)
Wow... thank you for such thoroughness and easy to follow explanations. danke schön
Thank you very much great explanation and helping me prepare for my own home studio.
Excellent video & advice. Thank you so much 👏👏👏
Extremely helpful thanks 🙏 much appreciated
Thank you, that was so helpful to see
Mia, thank you! That was a super informative video. I don’t have a studio yet. At the moment I use a community studio where there is no limit on water use so I’d not given waste water much thought. Now I’m going to try to limit my water use there as a start.
Thank you for sharing such a Great video.
Excellent!!! I’m a new follower and I’m so pleased with you’re content!
Awesome! Thank you!
Mia, thank you! This is so informative and useful. I have a home studio with no sink so I use buckets, but I've never made it truly recyclable or functional. I'll be trying out many of your suggestions.
This is a great video! Thank you! I will try essential oil such as lemon and thyme oil to clean the waste water in the gravity filter.
Door number 2 for me, thank you. It started me thinking that the glazes then aren't such a good idea for tableware but you got to watch the whole thing to understand everything 🤗
Glad I could help!
Thank you thank you for this video!
Great video Mia & thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’ve watched a few of your vid’s and you have many buckets each with criteria, steps, process, etc, and frankly I’m all confused by the end of the lengthy video, so a request: Can you make a Summary cheat sheet that I can print out containing: A list of each bucket name; what its purpose is/contains; and the process steps to get to the purpose of the bucket? A summary will help greatly. Cheers
This video is gold!! I do pottery in my backyard so this is so helpful. I use a lot of underglazes and always wondered is there any special way to dispose of the underglaze water. Or would it just go into the waste bucket?
I couldn’t bring myself to waxing the bottoms either. But when I finally did it changed my life😅
Such a great video! This was IMMENSELY helpful as someone just getting into pottery. Quick question, though, what about underglazes or sgraffito? Do you have a special process for disposing of those?
Thank you so so much! Im watching all your videos! What do you do with the glaze water after you've fired the collected glaze or dumped it safely? In the soil?
So strange question: could you use the mop bucket sludge from your water cleaning system as a glaze? maybe give it a quick sieve for large particles and objects, stir it up in a fresh bucket as a glaze and throw some decorative ware into it? Assuming that its just from water mopping, it is probably mostly clay, than secondly it would have dirt and other organic materials from your shoes, and lastly maybe a little bit of random glaze. If that's the case, than i would think heavy organic or inorganic particles would float to the bottom quickly after stirring, leaving just clay and light dirt and organics particles in suspension along with glaze particles. So it would be like glazing in mostly slip. If the result was pointless, than it could be cut with ash or some other glaze to perhaps give it interest again. IDK about anyone else but i love the idea of turning waste into utility, so if there isn't any reason it would be unsafe to fire it, than why not find a line of wares to put it to use on, for instance making plant pots (bonsai pots in my case) but for any potter they could just make a standard "terracotta-like" Plant pot with maybe a cheaper clay and use this cheap "Sludge glaze" to turn waste into product.
What do you do with the water left in the glaze waste bucket, after scooping out the glaze that settled in the bottom? Sorry if I just missed it in the video!
Thanks for the helpful video. Can you tell me what size buckets you use?
Hello! I am wondering if you can compost the sludge you collect from the gravity waste water system. We use a composting method called Paca Digestora and it works for everything organic (even poop!). If the smelly, stinky sludge is all organic (mainly no plastics / glass / aluminium), then it's probably compostable, in which case you don't need to bag it and throw to the landfill?
A few drops of tea tree oil, or maybe eucalyptus or lavender in the filter? Lemon eucalyptus (Corymbia citriodora) might be nice. You wouldn't need much to keep bacteria somewhat under control. And it'd mask any residual smell.
Oil and water don’t mix. The tea tree oil would just float on the top. The bacteria in these buckets would be anaerobic and grow at the bottom of the bucket. Not sure how the oils would help?
hello, I just subscribed after seeing your video, I am very excited to learn more diligently about making ceramics because I am a beginner, I want to ask, do you need additional water glass / sodium silicate to process clay?
This is exactly how a septic tank works for a house. Once a year you have them come out and clean out the sludge.
Could you put sodium bicarb in the gravity filter to help reduce bacteria growth?
This is super helpful for me, cause I'm starting to do pottery at home and I don't want to clog the pipes. Is there something that can go to the soil? Like the stuff you take from the gravity trap, in a plot of not used garden or something? I'm thinking about those bacteria doing their job and the garden getting some soil. Or maybe putting it to dry in the sun?
lots of potters do that! just be prepared for it to affect your soil :) but an unused patch in your yard should be fine. I’ve never tried it myself though so I cant speak from experience.
@@PotterytothePeople yeah, it'd need to be an unused one that won't have plants in it. I don't think plants do well in soil with much clay.
Hi, what would your advice be for someone who just has a small desk set up at home, in terms of water management?
Question: what donyou do with the solid waist that eventually fills the gravity filter? What I mean is where do you dump it?
Also loved this video! Super helpful ❤
Update I saw the last minutes of the video hahah informed :))
Amazing video my friend!
Just a question, does your clay water, the one you keep in the bucket with a lid, does that smell?
My issue with the clay water is that it tends to smell bad quite fast, but I was not covering it with a lid..
It can smell if you leave it a long time. I used to have this problem in my Berlin studio. It can even turn black haha but it's not dangerous and will not affect your clay (besides looking dark when you use it, but it will fire out fine).
Thank you, so helpful! In which bucket do you clean your splash pan and tools? Extra bucket and the remaining clay goes into the reclaim bucket?
I was told that your throwing waste in the pan needs to go into your reclaim bucket as it is where a lot of the fines end up. You need to return the fines to the rest of the clay body to keep it stable and balanced.
Do you reuse throwing water? I use my reclaim bucket at my throwing bucket but i dont knows how sanitary it is so i pour off the water and put fresh water each time but is it necessary?
what would you do if your glaze waste bucket filled up? are you able to siphon off the water in the top or?
I dont wax my bottoms because 1, I work in a studio with a full trap system. and 2 I am really concerned about what the wax even is if it creates reactions in the kiln as it burns off and most concerning to me, what are the environmental concerns of that being burnt off and releasing into the atmosphere via air.
How do you clean your glaze brushes?
Is the clay trap necessary for reasons besides sustainability?
Mal wieder ein super hilfreiches Video! Könntest du noch ein Video machen wie du das mit der Konformitätserklärung machst? Ich hatte verschiedene Laboren angeschrieben und nur eins führte die Untersuchung überhaupt durch und der Preis war bei knapp 400 Euro. Ich hatte dann noch andere Keramiker gefragt und die machen das alle nicht. Soweit ich aber weiß ist das vorgeschrieben wenn Gebrauchskeramik verkauft wird. Kennst du dich damit ein bisschen aus oder wie handhabst du das?
Ja, das ist ein sehr interessantes Thema, aber leider ist es schwer, solide Informationen zu diesem Thema zu bekommen 🥴. Als ich das letzte Mal recherchiert habe, schien der Konsens zu sein, dass es zwar technisch vorgeschrieben ist, das Gesetz aber nie durchgesetzt wird. Außerdem habe ich gehört, dass sie nur auf sehr offensichtliche Dinge wie Blei und andere Stoffe testen, die in modernen Glasuren nicht enthalten sind (oder Töpfer sollten es besser wissen, als sie nicht in Glasuren zu verwenden), so dass das Gesetz vielleicht überflüssig ist? So habe ich es jedenfalls gehört. Ich kenne keinen einzigen Töpfer, der dies tut. 😅
@@PotterytothePeople Ah danke dir für deine schnelle Rückmeldung. Ich habe eben auch den Eindruck dass das kaum jemand macht. Kannst du dir ja nur einmal leisten bei den Preisen und dann musst du immer bei der Glasur und dem Ton bleiben, weil sonst müsstest du ja jedes mal wieder neu testen lassen.
I know the video is about water, but using wax is another product and packaging (single use plastic) that isn't really necessary, so I don't think it's a lazy thing :) . I'm curious where does your underglaze waste go?
Hey, hey. Denmark dropped off the map? That's concerning. Interesting setup, thanks for posting.
omg!!! i didnt notice that hahaha
There is also Czechoslovakia instead of Czechia and Slovakia separately :)
Its a great video, but……. Your map over the world, are missing Denmark. It’s just gone??? 😢😢😢
You should change your mop water once a weak. If you leave it for a month you mop head will get pretty stinky, and dirty, with all sorts of bacteria and other germs x
The map is out of date lol... Czechoslovakia do not exist for 30 years.
Does anyone else find it hard to concentrate on what’s being said with music in the background?
noted, thanks for the feedback! I am also curious if others agree…
Background music doesn't usually bother me at all.If it does bother me , I think it's because it's too loud compared to whatever is being said. (Not the case here.)
I didn’t even realize there was music in the background
3:35 There’s also a little bit of skin in there.