Diy Cross Draft Paint Booth
Make this diy paint booth and use it for all of your spray painted projects.
Diy cross draft paint booth. A paint booth is a room that is fitted with exhaust fans and an air intake system to create a dust free environment for painting and finishing automobiles and other vehicles. Measure the object you wish to paint and decide on a size for your paint booth. 100fpm in an cross draft design is the typical standard. The cross draft paint booth is an economical and efficient solution for automotive industrial and wood finishes.
Paint booths are used in. Lets take two quick examples to best understand the math crossdraft paint booth is 6 feet wide x 8 feet high your air flow will be 6 feet x 8 feet x 100 fpm 4 800 cfm per minute you have a crossdraft paint booth with a 6 feet by 8 feet opening with a 4 feet by 4 feet crane opening you take the face opening 6 8 4 4 then take this x 100 6 400 cfm down draft paint booths a downdraft paint booth will remove approximately 50 fpm across the floor print of the paint booth. You can adjust the formula if something is different. 8x8x100 6400 cfm for your fan flow.
This homemade paint booth is easy to build inexpensive and versatile. Watch this video to learn exactly how to build a homemade paint booth with common materials. Paint booths also called spray booths finishing booths or powder booths can be designed for any auto painting use. The open front design saves valuable floor space and makes it easy to move products and parts in and out of the booth.
The paint booth protects the surroundings from overspray and the painted project from dust. If your booth is 8 tall your cross section would be 8 x8 in the direction of flow. Our most popular industrial spray booths open face paint booths are flexible cost effective solutions for a wide variety of finishing applications. A cross draft booth intakes air through filters in the product doors then the clean filtered air flows through the booth and is exhausted through the filters located at the opposite end.