Wanna build a spray booth but no room in your shop? Check this out.

Yep, I did the same. I got a bunch of old fashioned shower curtain hooks and installed them on the plastic sheets. I then installed some wires up towards the ceiling of the shop. When the "booth" is not in use, I simply slide it to the wall and secure it with a bungee cord to keep it out of the way.

 

My spray booth does double-duty as my driveway.

 

Let me state FIRST that I have never painted a car myself, BUT want to learn "someday".

That being said, I've seen too many temporary spray booths that use an EXHAUST fan instead of using filtered air on the intake side of a fan. (NASA uses this method in "clean rooms" all the time.) If you make the space a "positive pressure" room, you dont have to worry about the cracks & gaps. You will need somewhere for the air to escape, of course, but the dust & dirt near any gaps that you didn't see will be pushed OUT and won't find a way in. If you are painting inside of a house's attached garage this probably isn't the best method (because any escaping fumes and dust will be pushed somewhere else in the house, and that's bad). But if you are working in a detatched garage or even a carport, I would think that "positive pressure" with filtered intake air would work better.

Someone also mentioned using sealed motors for the fans - in a positive pressure system, the volatile fumes would never get near the motors.

 

I heart the Garage Journal. You can get lost over there digging through the gallery.

 

Thats clever and all but that is not really going to help much. I think one of the most important things you need in a spray booth is a suction fan pulling everything down. Up would work too, but it doesn't work as well.

Maybe he could run a fan on one end pushing air in and another pulling air out? Still won't work as well, but its better than nothing.

 

For my business, industrial control panels, I occasionally paint the steel enclosure. In my old shop, which I rented, I waited until everyone left the building at night and did my spraying. A little tricker in the winter, I would spray a coat of paint, open the door until the mist was clear and then shut the door until it got warm again. I had a open forced air heating system, I know, it wasn't the best set up. Last year I moved into a nice new building which I own. I didn't want the overspray getting all over and messing up the floor so I build a quickie booth.

I used 1¼ PVC pipe and a bunch of Tees and Elbows to build a 10'X10'X9'H cube. D****d thin visqueen around the sides and top. Lined the floor with heavy paper used by painters to protect the floor. I also use a 22" box fan with a heavy furnace filter. Again, I know this isn't the best, I'm trying to devise a better way. The booth cost about $125 and worked great. I had to spray two project, one with red paint which is the messiest of colors to spray. After I was done I just dis***emble the booth and stored away. One added benefit of this design is I can easily expand it and make it 10' X 20' or larger.

I didn't think of taking pictures of it before I took it down but I did make a drawing of it so I know how it goes back together.

 

How do you get in? Do you crawl through the box fan hole?

 

Have followed several diy painting projects threads and have yet to see this company mentioned, http://zipwall.com/, greatest thing ever for temp paint booth, wood work inside home etc.

 

I slightly overlapped the plastic in one corner and use it as an entrance. The booth might not be the most air tight chamber but it really helped to keep the overspray localized. When I dis***embled it I only had a very little noticeable overspray in on spot.

It took me about an hour and half to ***emble it but that was because I we designing as I went along. I would estimate it shouldn't take more than half hour or so to re***emble it. I haven't cemented any of the joints yet, except the frame for the fan, because I wanted to make sure it worked. I had to make some improvements after the first use, like adding the additional upright supports on the ends. The next time I ***emble it I think I will cement the joints on the ends but leave the full length pipes that joint the ends together loose so I can have the option to expand it. Also, I will have two flat walls I can lean up against a wall for storage.

It took about twenty minutes to dis***emble. I used cheap thin visqueen this time because I had a big roll of it and it was cheap and I wanted to make sure it worked before sticking more money into it. I am considering using heavier plastic with eyelets and hanging it like a big shower curtain. I don't want to use commercial type tarps because I haven't found any that weren't a solid color. I want all the light I can when I paint. I could hang lights but that just another ignition source I don't need.

 

My floor drain is plumbed to the hill outside my shop. I have a monster squirrel cage that ****s enough to create a downdraft in that bay.

Go read Oversprays paintbooth tech, very good.

 

Great concept. I bet there are plenty of ways it could be improved upon to make it even cheaper and easier. I like it!

 

Heres a couple of ideas for paint booths...I though were pretty cool.


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I guess you could make a smaller version of this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIokcTZZzOc

 

What size is this booth? What is a good size for doing odds n ends autos? I'm thinking about doing a 30x40 shop, and creating a 24x16 paint booth in one end......Is that a decent Size?

 

super cool, if you have a super size garage like that! and one thats not full of car parts and **** in every nook and cranny lol