IUS Cross-draft Soda Kiln

This is a kiln that I built with my students at IU Southeast in 2015/2016. It is a cross-draft, natural gas fired, soda kiln on the campus of IU Southeast and is built almost entirely from scrap bricks and materials.

Laying the floor out

Beginning the walls

Building the walls up

Building the base of the chimney

Soda Kiln – leveling the door opening

Soda kiln – Building the straight walls

Soda kiln – adding insulation to the walls

Soda kiln – welding the frame

Soda kiln – making the arch form

Soda kiln – assembling the arch form

Soda kiln – finished arch form, setting the skews

Soda kiln – laying out arch formation

Soda kiln – working on the arch

Soda kiln – working on the arch

Soda kiln – prepping the key for castable

Soda kiln – just after pouring the castable key

Soda kiln – working on chimney

Soda kiln – arch form ready to take out

Soda kiln – working on chimney

Soda kiln – working on chimney

Soda kiln – working on chimney

Soda kiln – new burners

Soda kiln – installing new burners

Soda kiln – cutting door bricks and posts

Soda kiln – arch form removed, washing inside

Soda kiln – arch form removed, washing inside

Soda kiln – arch form removed, washing inside

Soda kiln – arch form removed, washing inside

Soda kiln – arch form removed, washing inside

Soda kiln – arch form removed, washing inside

Soda kiln – first load

Soda kiln – first firing

Soda kiln – first firing

Soda kiln – first firing

Soda kiln – first firing, putting soda in

Soda kiln – first firing, putting soda in

Soda kiln – finished