With the tremendous variation in color, size, and style, chimney pots are equally at home in modern or traditional, residential or commercial architecture. They look great on contemporaries, but we also find that many customers buy them when they are trying to restore an older home to its original self. Similarly, they have become popular among architects, builders, and homeowners who are building new homes that follow a particular period style.

The kilns used to fire chimney pots are nearly as different as the chimney pots themselves and range from coal-fired (like those used in previous centuries) to state-of-the-art kilns where the chimney pots move through on conveyor belts, not unlike pizzas in a pizza oven.  Firing and cool down can take several days.

The pictures shown here are coal-fired beehive kilns. Many of the chimney pots we sell are fired in the kiln above, and receive a salt glaze, so called because salt is literally added into the kiln during the firing process. The door is sealed shut with clay so that the heat inside is kept as even as possible.