Painting help needed.

[DRG]

My wife, Paula, and I live in a very small house. I have compared it to an over-fed two car garage.

Two bedrooms, smallest one is hobby room, living room, kitchen and bath. Just the two of us so it's big enough.

No garage.

When I paint something at the present I go outside to do it. Good results so far using a rattle can.

But this winter is going to pose a severe problem here in Cleveland.

Would a paint booth with an exhaust hose hung out a back window work or would I wind up with overspray on tha house.

I need some help here, amy suggestions.

Thank you.

[Cornpatch]

prg5609:

I had almost the same problem as you. Living in Iowa, painting in the winter was a problem, you cant paint in the house and the garage was just to darn cold for painting.

Here's how I solved the problem. I went out and bought myself a real nice Pace Paint Booth and installed it in the basement hobby room. It worked great except for one drawback, it doesn't take all the fumes out of the house. After painting with the rattle cans, there is that lingering paint smell in the other rooms of the house, especially the basement.

To solve that problem, I went to Hobby Lobby, used the 40 % off coupon and bought me a nice Paasche duel action airbrush. I also now use nothing but Createx airbrush ready paints, they do a nice job, have a mulitude of colors and have no smell to them. There water clean up, so no problem with making a mess. Painting in the paint booth almost eliminates any over spray, but if there is any you just wipe it up with a damp rag.

This is just the way my sons and myself solved our inside painting problems, now the wife and daughter are happy, they can use there sewing room in the basement without the smell of paint forcing them out. Now mama is happy so everybody is happy.

I know there are a lot of guys/gals here that have solved there paint problems in many different ways, but this was our way of doing it.

Jeff