My new, new setup. New spray booth, almost done

[Quick GMC]

I posted a week or so ago in the questions section and there was some good discussion about how to properly set up a spray booth. After reading what others had to say, I decided to invest some money and build my own, fully enclosed booth. However, my wife and parents bought me the Artograph 1530 spray booth for my birthday and I don't have the heart to return it, so I am going to make it work.

I have rearranged the room for the 3rd and hopefully the last time. I have my own business, as well as work full time for my dad's company. I work out of my home in the evenings for now, but will eventually expand into my own building. For the time being I needed a proper office.

This room triples as an office, hobby room and guest room for traveling family members.

I had 3 major concerns with painting in my house.

1. dust coming through the AC ducts. This was fixed by adding a filter inside the vent to filter incoming air.

2. Opening the window to vent the paint outside. With the wind and dust in my area, I would need a sealed unit to vent outside. Opening the window to insert my board would just allow more sand and dust in. This was fixed by cutting holes in my house and ducting right through the wall. No more opening the window.

3. dust in the air. For those of you that followed the thread saw the conditions I live in. There is dust, always, period. The booth is open in the front. I have not solved this issue yet, but plan on building an acrylic box/cover to go over the booth, with holes in the front to stick my arms through.

No messing around. I cut 2 four inch holes through my wall to the outside. This cost me a lot of money because stucco eats hole saw bits. 3 saw bits to make 2 holes, but it was worth it. I used dryer vents on the outside and some type of coupling flange on the inside with a quick release. I bought 2 extra flanges with the quick release. I filled them with expanding spray foam and they act as plugs. When the booth is not in use, I plug the holes to prevent dust and heat coming in

If I ever need to eliminate the holes, I can filled them with expanding foam insulation and patch and finish. no harm done.

trimmed with flange installed

Nice and clean, snug and sealed.

this is what it looks like outside.

Edited August 3, 2014 by Quick GMC

[mikemodeler]

nice job, very professional looking. Hope that helps you with achieving better paint jobs and less trash in the paint.

[Quick GMC]

Here is the rest of the room

Bed, desk, massage chair and Hobby corner

paperless office. Other than super important documents, everything is scanned and digitized, then shredded

work bench is mounted on the wall with a nailer and steel L brackets. I couldn't stand sitting on a stool any more and the base was too high so I eliminated it. The bench is in the closet to maximize space.

[Quick GMC]

These just snap in place. I bought 2 extra ones. They were filled with expanding spray foam, so I can use them as plugs. When not in use, I put the plugs in and it keeps heat and dirt out.

There is enough room on this desk to drop the acrylic box over the top.

My corner

[unclescott58]

Very nice set up.

Scott

[my80malibu]

Nice Custom job. I see a need for more paint storage in the future.

[crazyjim]

Looks good.

[cobraman]

Nice work space !

[Quick GMC]

The desk I use for the spray booth is an old computer desk i got from Office Depot. I over paid for it, it's just compressed garbage board. I was going to happily destroy it and throw it in the trash when I realized I could still use it. It's very wobbly, so I anchored it to the wall. The office desk is one piece granite with travertine bases. It's pretty nice, but because I'm in the business it was cheaper to make a desk out of stone than it would be to buy a wood one. The drawers in the old desk hold all my spray cans, large and small, and all my solvent cans. The opening that is supposed to hold the computer tower holes my compressor. It works nice right now, but I will run out of space in the future.

The nice thing is in a few years when my son is old enough to sleep in a normal bed, I will be getting the bed out of this room, and I can have some more space.