Syper
Active Hunter
Back in November it started to get colder in my area and I noticed my painting needs were starting to get backed up. I thought about heating my whole garage and painting in there but that creates other issues like overspray everywhere you don’t want it. I started thinking about possible solutions and came up with a system that worked for me and got me painting again no matter how cold it was outside or in my garage. This solution even solved my concerns about the overspray or pain fumes. Essentially I created a cheap, temperature controlled paint booth with a vent at the rear that pulls warm air through the paint booth and also pulls the overspray and paint fumes out of the booth and out of your garage. No smelling up the place at all.
Here’s what you’ll need:
1. Household floor heater
2. Large cardboard box
3. Aluminum appliance dryer heater hose
4. Any kind of cheap fan.
5. Duct tape
6. Maybe a table or really anything to get your booth elevated and off the ground.
Nothing great to look at but this is basically it
Assembly instructions
1. Tape up the bottom half of your large box
2. Then flip it upright and cut out a large whole in the back of your box for your heater hose to fit through. Try to keep this hole I bit tight to help hold the hose in place and to keep it as air tight as possible.
3. Next push your heater hose through the hole about an inch or so and then apply duct tape from the inside of the hose out and onto the box. This should create an nice air tight connection.
4. Next place your spray booth / box next to or close to one of your garage air vents.
5. I placed my spray booth on a table close to the air vent with the least amount of junk around it.
6. At this point you will need to rig your heater hose to the fan you’re going use. I was able to attach my hose to the fan with screws but duct tape could work just fine.
7. Now place your fan with hose attached at the vent, I stacked stuff up to hold my fan in place. You could use anything you have available.
8. Ok now place your floor heater in front of and just below your box and turn it on high.
9. I placed a cheap plastic lazy Susan in my booth to turn my parts around as needed.
10. Now turn on your fan and heater.
11. Place the item being painted and paints to be used in the spray booth. Let it all heat up for about five minutes or so then you’re ready to start painting
With the heat rising up then getting pulled past what your painting, your temperature problem is solved and as you paint, all of the fumes and overspray gets pulled to the back of the paint booth and out of your garage. Depending on your situation, you could add a filter to catch your overspray but that’s up to you.Hope this keeps you working during these cold months, don’t let the cold stop you.
Plan it, Build it and have fun
(=Syper=)
Here’s what you’ll need:
1. Household floor heater
2. Large cardboard box
3. Aluminum appliance dryer heater hose
4. Any kind of cheap fan.
5. Duct tape
6. Maybe a table or really anything to get your booth elevated and off the ground.
Nothing great to look at but this is basically it
Assembly instructions
1. Tape up the bottom half of your large box
2. Then flip it upright and cut out a large whole in the back of your box for your heater hose to fit through. Try to keep this hole I bit tight to help hold the hose in place and to keep it as air tight as possible.
3. Next push your heater hose through the hole about an inch or so and then apply duct tape from the inside of the hose out and onto the box. This should create an nice air tight connection.
4. Next place your spray booth / box next to or close to one of your garage air vents.
5. I placed my spray booth on a table close to the air vent with the least amount of junk around it.
6. At this point you will need to rig your heater hose to the fan you’re going use. I was able to attach my hose to the fan with screws but duct tape could work just fine.
7. Now place your fan with hose attached at the vent, I stacked stuff up to hold my fan in place. You could use anything you have available.
8. Ok now place your floor heater in front of and just below your box and turn it on high.
9. I placed a cheap plastic lazy Susan in my booth to turn my parts around as needed.
10. Now turn on your fan and heater.
11. Place the item being painted and paints to be used in the spray booth. Let it all heat up for about five minutes or so then you’re ready to start painting
With the heat rising up then getting pulled past what your painting, your temperature problem is solved and as you paint, all of the fumes and overspray gets pulled to the back of the paint booth and out of your garage. Depending on your situation, you could add a filter to catch your overspray but that’s up to you.Hope this keeps you working during these cold months, don’t let the cold stop you.
Plan it, Build it and have fun
(=Syper=)
