Finishing ideas

My finishing guy is waiting for his new spray booth, but has built a temporary booth using 1×4’s and sheet plastic. His is about 10’ square and 7’high with one side open. The opposite side has a 3’ square opening filled with pleated furnace filters and a large floor fan drawing air out of the booth. Not real pretty, but it works.

You could probably do something similar (probably smaller), but make it in sections that can be quickly set up or taken down.

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Zip walls. Spring loaded poles that you attach plastic to. Sets up in five min. Very expensive, but work quite well. I have sprayed doors in the living room of a million dollar condo.

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Tim, I have seen two types of temporary spray booths that look to be pretty easy to set up and take down while storing in a relatively small area. One simply used 4 cardboard panels (three sides and a top) cut from large appliance boxes, similar to the ones that refrigerators come in. The panels are hinged with velcro tape for stability and look like a breeze to set up and take down.

The second was a little more complicated in that it consisted of frames made from 1/2” pvc. The 4 rectangular frames were joined with t fittings and each panel was wrapped in plastic.

In both cases an opening in the rear panel was cut out and a box fan equipped with a standard furnace filter was placed in the opening. I have been considering building one of these in order to spray without covering everything in my shop. Marc Spagnolo has produced a video on using one.

As far as sprayers go I would not recommend a Wagner HVLP as I never could get it to work very well. But I have an Earlex sprayer that suits my spraying operations.

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Tim,
I’m just beginning HVLP in a small workshop as well. All the ideas here are good-ie. cardboard panels, zip walls, etc. In my shop I made wood brackets that support wood closet poles close to the ceiling, and hung heavy plastic shower curtains on 3 sides-easy to put up and take down.
I also posted a question on whether I needed to put in a fan at one end, and the general consensus was that if I sprayed water based finishes and wore a respirator it wouldn’t be needed.
As far as HVLP equipment, my recommendation is Apollo- www.hvlp.com not cheap, but very well made.
Gerry

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