Well done... keep in mind. Those HVAC filters ate designed to "draw" air through on the other side of the fan. Not push through from behind. Many booths the air flow is the opposite of what you did. Instead of pushing air through. They air from the booth. Exhaust the air vice intake... you have to have both but the fan is on the exhaust side... HOWEVER, it looks good. You can't "over build " a paint booth. I have sprayed in under built booths. You have to go in spray and get out so you can breathe fresh air and not kill brain cells and walk around with a paint high... not to be able to see and not have so much paint in the air it messes up your paint job. Make sure you wet down the floor before you start also. Keeps the dust down and clean up easier. Definitely worth the cost of building a proper booth . Especially from a health standpoint.
I built my own semi downdraft booth to paint my truck a couple years ago. I built 20 4x8 pannels out of 2x2 lumber and rapped them all with plastic. The intent was to make it bolt together. It worked great. In my case I built a huge box that mounted to ceiling of my shop with three…yes three house furnace squirrel fan blower motors blowing air into the box and the entire bottom of the box was proper paint booth intake filters in a 8x10 frame that made up half of the ceiling of my booth. Did the same as you and put lights on the outside of the clear plastic on top and sides. The doors to the booth which lined up with my garage door were frames with outbound paint filters and I tunnelled it so the fumes would exit the op door and not get Back into shop. Had to paint when outside temp was only 32 degrees. Used six four tube fluorescent light units and it still was not bright enough really to see what I was painting properly. I do end up painting three cars in this booth before it got taken down. The next one will be built outside using the frame of a portable garage and clear plastic with filters on both ends and the same fans. Painting in the summer and sunlight through the plastic will make it really easy to see what I am doing and it will also be bigger then what I can build inside my shop.
Looks good! As others have said, I would switch the positive pressure to a negative pressure. If you make the fans exhaust instead of supply you will have a better stream line when trying to exhaust the clearcoat specifically. I purchased a few TPC Global industrial exhaust fans for around 100$ each that move serious air. Use pre filter material in front of the intake fans to reduce small particles from entering your booth. Last tip, call a local paint supplier like Sherwin Williams and ask if they have paint booth filter rolls. Found everything I needed locally and I live in Montana lol. I had no idea they would have the more industrial equipment but they did. Worth the phone call. Great content and thanks for sharing!
Swapping engines, electrical work, painting, welding/metal fab, now carpentry with a paint booth! Thats why I like your videos Austin, always something new! Just a thought, maybe a fan used as an exhaust with a filter leaving the booth.
Good on ya Austin! Get some fans on your other side in suction- almost more important than having them on the other side. Will be interested to see how this goes! Better than most home-job setups! Cheers!
I made a paint booth similar to yours back in the day. I used 4 box fans to pull the air out I put a filter’s on the back side of the fans. Then I used filters on the inlet’s to the booth as well.
You should definitely switch positions of the two "filter" walls and change the direction of the fans so the fans are pulling the air through the booth. Pushing air with a fan is not the most effective way for a fan to work when there are resistance barriers like filters in the way of the flow.
@@DionisBajrami If that becomes an issue he could use the weaker fan as a push-fan to lower the underpressure to a suitable level. As I understood it from his explanation earlier, the greatest problem he experienced was spray mist gathering in the air. That will be prevented by only having a constant controlled airflow in 1 direction. When you push air into a non-sealed room as I consider this to be, then you creates a one inlet and many outlets system. This doesn't makes the airflow go into 1 direction. On the other hand, if you creates the airflow with underpressure you creates just that. Airflow in 1 direction but maybe from many inlets. That depends on how much underpressure you apply.
I think he is doing it this way because I don’t think the fans are rated to work in a flammable environment. If he used them as extractor fans, flammable gas/liquids would be passing through the fan, possibly causing a fire.
I was just remembering thirty years ago going through an asbestos abatement course we set up air tight booths. Point being 3M made spray adhesive that was designed for plastic sheeting. As I recall it even worked on wet plastic. Made an air tight joint where you needed them. Used it to make showers also so it had terrific adhesion. Doing abatement we set up positive pressure containment areas where we were working. Might be useful. McMaster Carr or Graingers should have it if not many other places. Wasn't inordinately expensive compared to regular contact adhesive.
Thanks for the video. You could't stop surprising me by your effective solutions of a complicated problems. Time and time again you showed that any problem could be solved with a small money but clean thinking and robust hands. Do you think to place filter on the weak fan not after but before it. I belive it could improve the amout of ariflow from it.
I would think you would want to pull air through the paint booth not push it into the booth. A standard paint booth pulls the air rather than pushing the air.
@@austinniemela exactly what i thought it'll suck air from the cracks between floor and plastic liftin the dust in the air definitely stay positive air preasure maybe less airflow but also way less dust
Those filters are directional, do you have them in the direction you want them to be? There should be arrows indicating the airflow direction on the filters.
Maybe if you buy a large exhaust fan to suck the air out, same cross flow concept. My booth is like yours, but I really want to suck the air through and not push the air through. Thoughts on that?
PS: Did you consider one of those low pressure high volume air pumps they use on blow up ornaments ? Being just after the Xmas season you might get a couple for a good deal???
should have built a platform to drive on to and drawn the air down throw it and pulled the air out rather then push air throw i think your going to get a lot of dust landing on your paint but i have seen worst ideas good luck you have great videos
Well done... keep in mind. Those HVAC filters ate designed to "draw" air through on the other side of the fan. Not push through from behind. Many booths the air flow is the opposite of what you did. Instead of pushing air through. They air from the booth. Exhaust the air vice intake... you have to have both but the fan is on the exhaust side... HOWEVER, it looks good. You can't "over build " a paint booth. I have sprayed in under built booths. You have to go in spray and get out so you can breathe fresh air and not kill brain cells and walk around with a paint high... not to be able to see and not have so much paint in the air it messes up your paint job. Make sure you wet down the floor before you start also. Keeps the dust down and clean up easier. Definitely worth the cost of building a proper booth . Especially from a health standpoint.
Cant wait for the full build , color looks great 👍
Nice job. Can’t wait to see how it works.
I built my own semi downdraft booth to paint my truck a couple years ago. I built 20 4x8 pannels out of 2x2 lumber and rapped them all with plastic. The intent was to make it bolt together. It worked great. In my case I built a huge box that mounted to ceiling of my shop with three…yes three house furnace squirrel fan blower motors blowing air into the box and the entire bottom of the box was proper paint booth intake filters in a 8x10 frame that made up half of the ceiling of my booth. Did the same as you and put lights on the outside of the clear plastic on top and sides. The doors to the booth which lined up with my garage door were frames with outbound paint filters and I tunnelled it so the fumes would exit the op door and not get
Back into shop. Had to paint when outside temp was only 32 degrees. Used six four tube fluorescent light units and it still was not bright enough really to see what I was painting properly. I do end up painting three cars in this booth before it got taken down.
The next one will be built outside using the frame of a portable garage and clear plastic with filters on both ends and the same fans. Painting in the summer and sunlight through the plastic will make it really easy to see what I am doing and it will also be bigger then what I can build inside my shop.
Nothing like an Austin video for real lets go 1M subs this year
Looks good! As others have said, I would switch the positive pressure to a negative pressure. If you make the fans exhaust instead of supply you will have a better stream line when trying to exhaust the clearcoat specifically. I purchased a few TPC Global industrial exhaust fans for around 100$ each that move serious air. Use pre filter material in front of the intake fans to reduce small particles from entering your booth. Last tip, call a local paint supplier like Sherwin Williams and ask if they have paint booth filter rolls. Found everything I needed locally and I live in Montana lol. I had no idea they would have the more industrial equipment but they did. Worth the phone call. Great content and thanks for sharing!
Great job on that paint booth Austin, let’s hope it works well
Can't wait to see the outcome!
Swapping engines, electrical work, painting, welding/metal fab, now carpentry with a paint booth! Thats why I like your videos Austin, always something new! Just a thought, maybe a fan used as an exhaust with a filter leaving the booth.
Thanks 👍
Austin you are a very versatile talented man it is a pleasure to watch you work
I've always painted in a negative booth. But I hear a low pressure positive booth will be cleaner. Looking good.
Good on ya Austin! Get some fans on your other side in suction- almost more important than having them on the other side. Will be interested to see how this goes! Better than most home-job setups! Cheers!
Looks good Austin, can't wait to see the Taco painted
I made a paint booth similar to yours back in the day. I used 4 box fans to pull the air out I put a filter’s on the back side of the fans. Then I used filters on the inlet’s to the booth as well.
Good Job buddy , Being able to build all this by yourself it's very professionally done 💯✨
I would think you would need to pull the air thru instead of pushing it
That should help give you a good paint job. In prep work you can never do too much.
You should definitely switch positions of the two "filter" walls and change the direction of the fans so the fans are pulling the air through the booth. Pushing air with a fan is not the most effective way for a fan to work when there are resistance barriers like filters in the way of the flow.
itll suck air and dust from the cracks on the plastic and lift it in the air
@@DionisBajrami If that becomes an issue he could use the weaker fan as a push-fan to lower the underpressure to a suitable level.
As I understood it from his explanation earlier, the greatest problem he experienced was spray mist gathering in the air. That will be prevented by only having a constant controlled airflow in 1 direction. When you push air into a non-sealed room as I consider this to be, then you creates a one inlet and many outlets system. This doesn't makes the airflow go into 1 direction. On the other hand, if you creates the airflow with underpressure you creates just that. Airflow in 1 direction but maybe from many inlets. That depends on how much underpressure you apply.
I think he is doing it this way because I don’t think the fans are rated to work in a flammable environment. If he used them as extractor fans, flammable gas/liquids would be passing through the fan, possibly causing a fire.
@@DionisBajrami yes precisely my thoughts
@@stevendouglas6593 that too!
looks good... im sure it will work just fine🙌
Nice ! I did the same thing when i’ve painted my MK4 Jetta !! Good video as always !
Great video,you are a talented man,for temporary booth it is quite nice unit.kudos to you.keep it up.👍👍👍😎😎😎
I was just remembering thirty years ago going through an asbestos abatement course we set up air tight booths. Point being 3M made spray adhesive that was designed for plastic sheeting. As I recall it even worked on wet plastic. Made an air tight joint where you needed them. Used it to make showers also so it had terrific adhesion. Doing abatement we set up positive pressure containment areas where we were working. Might be useful. McMaster Carr or Graingers should have it if not many other places. Wasn't inordinately expensive compared to regular contact adhesive.
Awesome job. Never be ashamed of hoarding expensive materials for projects like this. Having a good work space always benefits the end result👍
“Something more important “? What could be more important than entertaining us?🙂
Thanks for the video. You could't stop surprising me by your effective solutions of a complicated problems. Time and time again you showed that any problem could be solved with a small money but clean thinking and robust hands.
Do you think to place filter on the weak fan not after but before it. I belive it could improve the amout of ariflow from it.
Great video! 👍 Thank you
What color are you panting the truck?
Very cool!
Man lots of work. Push and pull on the air situation.
Awesome brotha
I got the same squinty safety glasses as well 😏
YOU carpenter to bro, GOT TRADES BRO, AWESOME!!! YES SIR!
Nice!
Looks Good! I don't think you want to muck air flow. Those filters will not stop the paint. You might want to cover your door with plastic.
I would think you would want to pull air through the paint booth not push it into the booth. A standard paint booth pulls the air rather than pushing the air.
You want positive pressure in a booth. It helps with dust
@@austinniemela exactly what i thought it'll suck air from the cracks between floor and plastic liftin the dust in the air
definitely stay positive air preasure
maybe less airflow
but also way less dust
That one inch matrix filter is nice as they can be hosed out and reused multiple times.
Those filters are directional, do you have them in the direction you want them to be? There should be arrows indicating the airflow direction on the filters.
Keep these videos coming
I’m not sure if this is an issue, but fire safety, sources of ignition with the fan motors, etc. ??
Great video as always.
My brother in law bought an inflatable paint booth he uses in him 40x60 garage. When not in use it’s out of the way. It was less than 1000
Maybe if you buy a large exhaust fan to suck the air out, same cross flow concept. My booth is like yours, but I really want to suck the air through and not push the air through. Thoughts on that?
Put the filter on the back side of fan it will pull air thru easier than it blows thru
I'm looking to do a bhw swap in a old pickup what is a good easy to find 2wd transmission 5 speed that will fit?
Don't worry about what other people are saying.
It's better to be over kill than under done.
Good job I would done the same thing.
👍👍👍👍❤🍇🍇🍇
Hey. Lowes has “Homax tarp zippers” for access door!
Would it work to put the filters on the other side of the fan so the fan sucks the air through the filter?
That'll be great until you make something more permanent. Should work really well. 🍻
PS: Did you consider one of those low pressure high volume air pumps they use on blow up ornaments ? Being just after the Xmas season you might get a couple for a good deal???
Ive seen guys wet the floor to keep the dust down on their temp booths.
Walmart hvac filters flow a lil better!
should have built a platform to drive on to and drawn the air down throw it and pulled the air out rather then push air throw i think your going to get a lot of dust landing on your paint but i have seen worst ideas good luck you have great videos
Here i am watching the bulid for the forth time , IDK
Doesnt your brother Devin have a portable paint booth?
It'll make it so you can do professional quality paint jobs on a budget, who doesn't want to do that?
Next episode: building a bigger shop haha!
I wish!
One fan pushing in and one fan pulling out of filter
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Why do you have a box truck full of planks of wood?
вместо того чтобы просто купить целлофан и укрыть свои инструменты, взял и построил в гараже какую-то избушку
“Paint Booth” ok Dexter lol
I love it, but let's not call it framing. Lol
so... how are going to get a vehicle into the booth?
Take 2 screws out of the wall and move it
You need to have the air flow pulling the air out of the booth instead of pumping air in.