Cleaning with Water in the Ceramics Room

Rule # 1 -- Water is the 'Universal Solvent' and you need it to clean clay off of surfaces and your hands.
Rule # 2 - As water sits (or flows) the clay particles will fall out of suspension and settle out.

SO -- we do NOT want this to happen in the drain.
WE DO want this to happen in a controlled way so we can not clog the drain and so we can reclaim the clay and re-use it.

THUS -- return any large amounts of usable to wet clay into the mixer -- No dry clay please in the mixer -- if it is too wet or too dry that clay needs to go in the bucket beside the mixer.

How do we wash things?
that which is very dirty starts in the buckets on the table. That water is emptied into the buckets by the back door -- and the clay on the bottom goes in the bucket by the mixer.

Light clay gets washed in the dishpan in the sink. That water gets emptied into the buckets by the sink. this water then goes into the buckets on the table.

Only when your hands or tool are clay free do they get washed with soap under running water. WE do this not to remove clay but to get rid of any underlying germs.