Mother Nature's Spray Booth - Where do you paint?

Mother Nature's Paint Booth: I paint both in the garage and outside but paint outside as much as possible. For sure I do all my primer work outside. (Weather and season's permitting)

I scored an industrial exhaust from a factory that closed down. The thing can **** the chrome off a trailer ball. I built a little 4 X 4 booth around it for small parts and powder coating. Run the fan on high and I can turn the whole garage into a spray room.

In the winter we paint bikes and car parts (There are two seasons in Wisconsin - Drive'em and Paint'em) The only problem is my roof has some pretty interesting colored snow on it when I'm done.

Where do you paint?

 

Driveway for now,doing a roll on paint job.

 

Outdors is perfect early spring and late fall when there are no bugs.

 

cosco tent 10x20 put it up in a hour

 

In the garage with the doors open if the wind is blowing from the north. In the dog pen with the ground wetted down if it's blowing from the south. With the dogs inside the house, of course.

 

^^^^^^ well at least you put a tarp down,not me i have paint all over the driveway,

 

In my garage.I hang plastic in all the walls and floor and tape up the seams with duck tape.I put an exhaust fan on one window and tape furnace filters in the other and get a pretty good air flow.Throw on a really good respirator and let it fly.The results are as good as some spray booth jobs I have seen.

 

In my paint booth?

 

Here is a rare peek inside the top secret cutting edge Flamedabone Color Application Studio in beautifull Goose Creek S Carolina. Here is the '39 from two years ago..



Just finished this one a few weeks ago...



All kidding aside...I'm gratefull to have my little shop to build hot rods in. There are alot of guys out there screwing stuff together in the driveway or in the dirt under a tree in the backyard. You can do it like that but it sure as hell ain't easy.

-Abone.

 

in a cheap homemade paint booth in the shop. 18x30 inside the shop with one exhaust fan in the wall.works pretty good. since we cut and buff all the paint jobs anyway a bit of dust doesnt upset me to much. still dont like it but what the hell its better than when i did them in the driveway.

 

Im painting final color in my friend's garage. The tarps will get stapled to the rafters to keep **** from falling on it. Next Sun......I hope!

 

Wherever but only in the morning before the bugs wake up and the air is its cleanest and still.

 

ive done it in car ports and my small apartment garage, in the car port i did it early and covered the other cars with plastic and went to it. Apartment complex was bad, it was a 6 attached gargaes. i pop the breaker and got stuck in there. pulled th release cord and went looking for the breaker box but didnt find it. next morning i ran into my buddy a Maintenance worker at the place and he showed me where to look. you live and learn

 

My driveway got another turn at being my paint booth. lol.

 

I put up a 10 by 20 canopy next to the garage door closed it in on the sides barn doors in the end two 1300 CFM attic fans in the pick and four 20 by 24 air handler filter in the sides. Also put a window in to keep an eye out for the hazmat suit guys. And i dont believe the bugs ever sleep around here.

 

I built a carport some years ago. Then I got the idea to close it in and I made a home made paint booth out of it......I am happy with it.....14x22