Loading your kiln @ CMEZ

It is not a good idea to load your items on the bottom of your kiln, you should use some short stilts and place one shelf over the bottom and then build up your shelves to heights needed.

Try to load your kiln evenly, arranging items of the same height on each shelf. Shelves should be placed so that at least one kiln element is in between them in order to make sure heat is evenly distributed. You should leave about one inch of head room between your tallest item and the shelf above it. It is a good idea to put smaller items on the bottom shelf and the very top shelf with the larger/medium sized items in the middle. Of course, it is not a good idea to stack space bars too high as they become unstable, so if you have very large pieces, they should be on the top. Do not over crowd pieces, allow space so that the heat/air may flow freely around them. Unpainted greeware can touch if needed and you can loosely pile small items like ornaments or magnets. Glazes of course, should not touch and you should leave about 1 inch of space between them so they do not grab each other during the firing. Your glazes will bubble up and if the touch each other, they can pull each other off their stilts.

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