Paint Booth Progress!

So here are some pics of the paint booth that we have been building. To quote Greg, "Holy crap, it actually looks like we know what we are doing!" I am very impressed with the job we are doing. Most of this is due to Greg and his many years of construction experience. I know we couldn't have gotten this far this quick without him.

Anyway, the idea started a couple of months ago when Ryan and I realized that a booth was going to be necessary to properly use a spray gun and higher quality paint products. We both did lots of research and sorted through the good and bad (and some really really bad) ideas. We decided against an open face booth because the cost difference to build it fully enclosed was not that much more and we will be able to control the painting environment much better this way.

So the concept here is basically a free standing 6.5 x 8 x 8 foot room. The whole back wall is going to be washable fiberglass air filter material to filter all contaminants out of the air flowing into the booth. Then, at the front of the booth, there is a 5 x 5 foot section of 2 inch thick spray booth filter to pull all of the paint out of the air before it exhausts. We are using an 8 inch explosion proof 460 cfm fan to exhaust the booth. This will completely filter and replace the air in the booth about once a minute! The walls are all tile board so we can wash them easier and we have two four-foot flourescent lights to light the whole booth. We may add more lighting if neccesary. Anywho, that is the basic concept and here are some pics of the progress so far!