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setting up a new spray shop

11/30/16       
keith Member

I own a small finishing business, i mostly finish for local high-end millwork companies here in New York. In a few weeks i will move into a new work space (bigger, easier controlled environment), that gives me a clean slate to set up whatever way i want. i will have a 1,800sqft box room i plan to use for sanding, prepping wrapping etc..with a seperate room 600sqft where i plan to put an open face booth.

My question to all you finishers... what would you advise or do differently if you had a clean slate to work with when organizing you finishing shops? layout and equipment etc??

just curious, Thanks in advance.

11/30/16       #2: setting up a new spray shop ...
rich c.

Biggest deal this time of year is warm make up air. I also suggest you talk to your insurance agency and building/fire inspectors before shopping for a booth as well.

12/1/16       #3: setting up a new spray shop ...
Shane

Agree with Rich.. if you have the leisure of having a separate room just for finishing... clean it from floor to celing.... paint the walls high gloss white if you can.... invest in a heated air makeup and put your booth fan on a variable frequency drive... this way you can control your booth to have positive pressure pushing out of the room..... if you get junk in your finish its your practices inside the room... Also we put booth media on our air makeup intake to catch large debris... changed the aluminum mesh filters to merv8 pleated and had our ducting inside the room refitted with frames all along the ducting to hold 25x20 merv10 pleated filters.... its a pain to change them and we change every two months sometimes more but we have clean intake air coming into our room! Lighting lighting lighting... we have led bay fixtures hanging and man what a difference! no shadows!

12/1/16       #4: setting up a new spray shop ...
chris

your local fire inspector will want sprinklers especially in the booth.
I had to get a certified architect draw up plans for the spray room. had to use 5/8 and out and fireproof doors.
I would have been better off using an automotive style booth
search NFPA code 33. This gives you all the requirements to set up a booth.
I'm in orange county NY

12/1/16       #5: setting up a new spray shop ...
keith Member

Thanks for taking the time guys, i will speak to my landlord today about the alerting the fire inspector etc..

Painting the walls gloss white, i never would of thought of that, makes total sense... As far as the heated air make-up unit goes, obviously being a small business owner, my first reaction is....how much $$$? I have no experience with make up units and obviously they vary in size and quality like anything...but can anyone recommend a brand and estimate rough cost?

12/1/16       #6: setting up a new spray shop ...
chris

i can give you a name and number from where i got my air make up unit.
he services NY.

12/1/16       #7: setting up a new spray shop ...
keith Member

That would be great Chris, thank you.

12/1/16       #8: setting up a new spray shop ...
al

Shane,
Are the LED lights you have explosion proof? A friend gave me a LED shop light and the light is so much better. You do not replace the bulbs on this particular one, rather there is just a tiny little strip 48" long mounted to inside of housing. However it is just a general shop light and not for paint booth.

I tried LED replacement bulbs in a florescent fixture that are compatible as long as it's a rapid start ballast
which it is and the lighting is no better than florescent.

Larson brand explosion proof LED come with tubes like florescent but has no ballast. This is what I would like for my spray booth if I can get the light like the one my friend gave me but not interested if similar to
the LED bulbs I tried in florescent fixture. Anyone know about the Larson LED's? They are just under $1000
each for 4 foot (2) tube light. These are the type with glass tubes around the lighting tubes.

Thanks,
Al

12/1/16       #9: setting up a new spray shop ...
Arthur grudko

Website: http://primezall@gmail.com

RE: LED LIGHTS

If they are to be used for color evaluation, bear in mind that they wash out the red out of red mahogany. Make it look sorta like walnut.

12/2/16       #10: setting up a new spray shop ...
Shane

Our LED hanging lights are just bay lights hanging from our high celing wharehouse and are not explosion proof or located inside spray booth... All our booth are from global finishing and have the appropriate rating and color correction bulbs for color matching while your inside the booth area.... Our booths are about 21' foot wide 12' tall and 12' deep open face booths... I have four booths in one room with make up air and the same setup in another room...


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