Paintbooth - made easy

[BOSS]

Brand new to the board, thought I'd start off my "giving" something rather than asking for something .

I build this two-room paintbooth in my 3-car garage for painting my interior pieces on a truck, and though I would share the how-to. There are two rooms, a paint room and a drying room. (I was spraying water based paint, and have never sprayed primer, but I bet this booth should work for that perfectly.) It's pretty cheap and everything can be bought at your local HomeDepot or hardware store. Happy to answer any plastic painting questions!

The cool part about this booth is you can do it all by yourself with no help to lift the joints up and staple/nail them to the ceiling sheet rock. Paint over the sheet rock when you're done, holes are minimal. For the booth itself, you want to be sure the plastic is in between the ceiling and the wooden frame so paint spray doesn't escape.

The fan I built in the pictures works good to draw out the atomized spray in the booth itself - BUT I did end up buying a 1.5 ft floor fan from Walmart and built a much larger one to clear the room faster.

Materials
-Drop plastic (you pick the size, thickness is really irrelevant here)
-Green Painters tape (best for the seams)
-Blue Painters tape (for general)
-sockets from your toolbox
-zip ties
-aluminum foil or dynamat
-fan of your choosing
-home dryer duct hose (length depends on how you build it, I used 7 ft.)

(I think that's all the parts)


Framing it out (The walls and the ceiling plastic both go under the wood frame inside the actual booth so it keeps the atomized spray from going anywhere except the exit vents , the rest of the plastic is staple gun'd to the frame pieces in the drying room)


How I installed the frame by myself with pre-rolling the plastic and sticking it on the nails first...there was literally no other way to do this by myself. I would lay the ceiling pieces and a wall piece on the same board and hoist it up myself, then let the plastic down from the zip ties....serious pain in the ass but it can be done. This was the way to guarantee the plastic would be underneath the wood frame, and thus paint would be contained in the spray booth.


Paint booth room, with heater LOL


Paint booth - back of the room


Wall seams between the booth and the drying room


Good ol' Dynamat, keeps the plastic and tape from melting


Drying room


Used sockets and a twist tie to hold down the seam between the booth and the drying room


Door between the rooms


Using a fan and washer/dryer hose from Home Depot wrapped in plastic to ventilate all the paint spray. The dryer hose is rigid so it allows the plastic to be seamed up around it easily. I ended up with (2) exit vents to a bigger fan than pictured, and 3 vents for drawing air into the paint booth. I used dryer sheets on the vent-in and the vent-out to catch the paint spray molecules and keep them from going in the garage. I was really surprised at how well it worked.



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[19,69camaro]

Welcome, and thanks for the post. Im sure this will help out quite a few of us DIY'ers. I do have to say that the whole setup kind of remembles the kill rooms Dexter sets up right before he is about to slice someone up....remind me never to tick you off