Spray booth?

[muddermilitia]

For you guys that don't have access to a professional shop, what have you done as far as prepping your space for painting?

Has anybody built a small paint area like in a shed in your backyard? Or maybe created a room in your basement for painting smaller items? What do you do in your garage when it's time to paint? How about painting an entire car?

I'm just thinking ahead here. I am starting to get into painting. We are setting up an 80 gallon air compressor in my cellar that is under my garage. I have a fairly standard size 2 car garage attached to my house (I don't have dimensions handy) Cold weather is already here and my 1952 Dodge is getting really cranky starting in the cold temps, so I have covered the whole car with a tarp instead of pulling it outside while I paint. My 59 Apache is taking the other car space and it is not mobile.

Lately I have been prepping and taping off my work piece in my basement, carrying it into the garage to spray, then carrying the piece inside my house or down into the basement to let it cure, then back and forth to the garage for the next coats. Larger stuff that can't be brought inside the house, I just crank up the furnace in my garage and then shut the furnace off while I paint and leave it off the rest of the day.

Last winter I was painting the whole frame of my 59 Apache. The paint fumes were getting into the house. So the next day when I was ready to paint more, I brought like 6 box fans from work. Got the garage real warm, shut off the furnace and then opened the garage door just high enough for the box fans to fit under it and turned them on while I painted. That worked good, but I gotta come up with something better

 

[yellowK20]

Lots of plastic , a box fan with some furnace filters and wet the floor down to prevent dust and dirt from the floor going air borne , has worked for me many times.

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At my place in NM I set up a paint booth on my back patio , plastic to cover the wall and sliding glass door , and plastic over the poles that held up the roof to create “walls”

I used a box fan to evacuate fumes , but what I did to create positive pressure in the booth ( and to keep fumes out of the house ) was to turn on my swamp cooler ( with water turned off) and all the doors and windows in the house closed . I then cracked the sliding door open to pressurize the booth . It worked great we painted my buddy 71 duster in there and then a 78 f150 . Both turned out really good no fisheyes, no dirt , no bugs , and most importantly no fumes in the house!

 

[imiceman44]

Lots of plastic , a box fan with some furnace filters and wet the floor down to prevent dust and dirt from the floor going air borne , has worked for me many times.

Edit:

At my place in NM I set up a paint booth on my back patio , plastic to cover the wall and sliding glass door , and plastic over the poles that held up the roof to create “walls”

I used a box fan to evacuate fumes , but what I did to create positive pressure in the booth ( and to keep fumes out of the house ) was to turn on my swamp cooler ( with water turned off) and all the doors and windows in the house closed . I then cracked the sliding door open to pressurize the booth . It worked great we painted my buddy 71 duster in there and then a 78 f150 . Both turned out really good no fisheyes, no dirt , no bugs , and most importantly no fumes in the house!

Especially important, wet the floor like he said, it makes all the difference for clean paint

 

[Bowtie85]

I’ve Poly’d off the walls and used a box fan to spray stuff in my garage.

Also I’ve painted stuff in the driveway first thing in the morning, got some strange looks from the neighbors though

First truck I sprayed in a lean to with a dirt floor, turned out not bad.

Like said above make Sure the floor is wet down.

 

[diesel4me]

I've seen some very nice paint jobs done in typical household garages over the years,several "backyard body shop" guys used to buy paint I mixed at the parts stores--they had nothing fancy,they just wet everything down good before pulling the car in,and the biggest problem most of them had was BUGS getting in the wet paint!--mosquitoes,flies,etc,get attracted by the bright flood lights they used,and many cars that were left to dry overnight had to be wet sanded the following day to remove all the bug corpses..

One guy used one of those tent garages (Shelter-Logic) type things,he cut a hole for an exhaust fan in the tarp on the rear end,and made a screened opening for the front...he had painted several vehicles in his two car house garage built under his home in the past,but the fumes adversely affected his wife and kids--one of his sons had a disease similar to MS and he blamed himself for it,said he figured the paint with hardener was what caused it..

 

[HankScorpio]

I have done it a few times now. Built a frame for the booth out of 1x4. Plastic over it all. Box fans with furnace filters on one end, opening for fresh air on the other. Tarp on the floor. LED work lights hanging in the corners and on the floor. Works excellent.

 

[76zimmer]

Down draft....filtered air coming in from above and a box fan to blow it out at ground level.
Sweep the ceiling w a shop vac and staple up plastic on the walls so there is no wrinkles.
Seal off every point of air entry so the only air coming in is filtered.
Heat the booth up to temp...(read your reducer/thinner for temps), and heat up the parts too.

 

[ramack]

For you guys that don't have access to a professional shop, what have you done as far as prepping your space for painting?

Has anybody built a small paint area like in a shed in your backyard? Or maybe created a room in your basement for painting smaller items? What do you do in your garage when it's time to paint? How about painting an entire car?

I'm just thinking ahead here. I am starting to get into painting. We are setting up an 80 gallon air compressor in my cellar that is under my garage. I have a fairly standard size 2 car garage attached to my house (I don't have dimensions handy) Cold weather is already here and my 1952 Dodge is getting really cranky starting in the cold temps, so I have covered the whole car with a tarp instead of pulling it outside while I paint. My 59 Apache is taking the other car space and it is not mobile.

Lately I have been prepping and taping off my work piece in my basement, carrying it into the garage to spray, then carrying the piece inside my house or down into the basement to let it cure, then back and forth to the garage for the next coats. Larger stuff that can't be brought inside the house, I just crank up the furnace in my garage and then shut the furnace off while I paint and leave it off the rest of the day.

Last winter I was painting the whole frame of my 59 Apache. The paint fumes were getting into the house. So the next day when I was ready to paint more, I brought like 6 box fans from work. Got the garage real warm, shut off the furnace and then opened the garage door just high enough for the box fans to fit under it and turned them on while I painted. That worked good, but I gotta come up with something better

When I was a teenager, I painted my '67 Chevelle SS in my Gpa's garage/shed. A week or so before I was going to paint, I hosed off all the walls after sweeping the floor, let it dry out, swept the floor again, then painted. I did have some bugs get on the paint, but that was an easy fix. You don't need much fancy stuff, KISS it.