Car painting is carried out in specially equipped rooms with good ventilation and special equipment. This ensures proper air exchange and maintains the required temperature. There are ready-made powder coating booths on sale, but their cost is too high.
Many entrepreneurs are deterred by the high price of such premises from starting their own car painting business. An alternative option would be to use a DIY spray booth.
If you comply with all the necessary standards and install the necessary equipment, then such a camera will not be inferior to a purchased one, but at the same time it will cost much less.
Even the most ordinary garage is suitable for organizing such a camera with your own hands.
If you consider the stages of painting a car, you can understand what requirements should be observed when setting up a paint booth. It consists of the following steps:
- Before painting, the car body is sanded. In this case, the task of ventilation is both to remove dust from the paint booth and to clean the air entering the chamber from the outside.
- When painting a car, the ventilation system must ensure that the air is cleared of varnish and paint particles.
- When drying a car, the air must be heated and circulated indoors.
Thus, a powder coating booth consists of an enclosed area intended for painting and drying; heat generator for heating air; ventilation systems equipped with the necessary filters; lighting.
Paint booth diagram
When installing a painting and drying chamber, the room in which it is located should not depend on the ambient temperature. Thus, good thermal insulation must be performed. The room temperature should be maintained at about 20-25 degrees, excluding sudden temperature changes.
Special requirements apply to room lighting. It should be fully illuminated evenly and the workplace should be especially well lit. The light should be a combination of shadowless lighting and fluorescent lamps, and should not have any flicker.
The quality of painting depends on the quality of the air in the chamber; it must be sufficiently clean and its pressure must meet the standards.
Paint booths can be equipped with single-motor or double-motor ventilation. The single-engine unit works only for supply air purification. It is easy to assemble with your own hands. The twin-engine one ensures air purification at the inlet and outlet, therefore it is more efficient.
In any case, ventilation should be at floor level and ensure air circulation throughout the room without dead spots. Filters must clean the air from both dust and oil particles.
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Selection of premises, equipment and interior decoration
A garage or any non-residential premises is suitable for a do-it-yourself paint booth. As with any construction, before starting to set up a paint booth, you need to make drawings of the location of ventilation, lamps, as well as all the necessary elements that the powder paint booth should contain.
Painting booth diagram
It is better to perform the interior decoration of the room with a metal profile. It is economically beneficial to use PVC panels, but they have a high degree of flammability. It is better to complete the finishing using non-combustible materials. Similarly, do-it-yourself thermal insulation is also done with non-flammable insulation, ensuring a reduction in heat losses.
The base structure for the camera can be made of concrete or metal. Concrete is preferable, since it is at floor level and is convenient to drive into by car.
The metal base should be at a height of 30-50 cm from the floor. This creates the inconvenience that you will have to make an additional entrance for cars yourself. Both bases provide good air exchange, which helps remove exhaust air to the outside.
The room must be equipped with a sealed door. White powder paint is used to paint the walls. It has a fairly long service life and is resistant to external influences.
It is advisable to paint the walls of the room white; colors are better perceived against its background, which is important when painting cars.
The room for painting a car should be well lit. In this case, the lamps should be located not only on the ceiling, but also on the walls, providing side lighting.
The best solution for lighting is fluorescent lamps; they are quite economical and do not flicker. LED lamps have become popular recently. Although they have a high price, they pay for themselves due to the advantages they have:
- consume less electricity compared to fluorescent lamps;
- do not require replacement;
- have a high level of safety, which is important for a powder coating booth;
- Provide bright and even lighting.
To illuminate the lower part of the machines, you can use portable lamps or place lamps at the bottom of the room along the walls, protecting them from accidental damage.
To make a decision about equipping a painting and drying chamber with special drying equipment, you need to decide how many cars will be constantly painted. If a small flow is expected, then you can get by with air drying and installing a heat generator.
If a large flow of vehicles is expected, then the best option is to use infrared lamps. They consume little energy and are therefore beneficial from an economic point of view. Provide high drying speed and quality of the paintwork after drying.
The powder painting booth can be equipped with a room for car painters, which should be adjacent to the painting and drying chamber. This room is intended for the craftsmen to relax, where they can change clothes and eat.
It is advisable that it have a window opening into the painting booth. To do this, make a corresponding hole and insert a double-glazed window into it. Through the window, technicians can monitor the drying of the car and quickly respond to any emergency situations.
The ventilation system must ensure a uniform flow of clean air throughout the room. When designing, you need to build a ventilation system with your own hands so that there are no dead zones.
Therefore, ceiling and floor filters are located across the entire width of the room. The powder painting booth must be equipped with an exhaust ventilation system with shut-off and control valves, which is located in the underground space.
Supply ventilation should ensure the removal of air from all points in the room, especially in the car painting area. If there are no dead zones, then during an hour of work when painting a car, the air in the room should be renewed at least 8-10 times.
The ventilation system must be equipped with filters. The supply air should be cleared of dust, which affects the quality of the coating, and the exhaust air should ideally be cleared of paint fumes. Depending on the method of organizing the ventilation system, paint booths can be of two types:
- single-engine, in which air under pressure comes from the upper ventilation duct. Thanks to the pressure of the incoming air, the paint mist falls down and is discharged out through the floor openings;
- twin-engine, which are equipped with both a blower motor located at the top and an air exhaust motor located at the bottom.
Naturally, having two motors is more efficient. But this option is more expensive and more difficult to install. It is justified when there are a large number of cars being serviced, so it is more profitable to install one engine.
Fine filters clean the incoming air from dust. To remove air from the room, there are trenches made in the floor.
In dual-motor chambers, a second motor is placed in them to force exhaust air out. If the floor is metal, then it is already raised, so there is no need to make trenches.
Ventilation of a dual-motor spray booth
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Varnishes, dust and paints quickly clog the filters, which slows down the air circulation in the painting and drying chamber, so the ventilation must be able to regulate the air flow. In addition, cleaning the filters should not take much time; they should be conveniently located.
The quality of painting is greatly influenced by the presence of dust, so its amount should be kept to a minimum. From the garage where painting is done, all rubbish that can accumulate dust should be removed: various rags and carpets.
Fires when working with paints and varnishes occur quite often, so special attention should be paid to fire safety. Non-combustible materials must be used for finishing and thermal insulation. All devices located in the room must be explosion-proof. Electrical appliances must be grounded.
Heat exchangers must have protective thermostats against overheating. The room where paint and varnish work is carried out must be equipped with a fire extinguishing system.
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Painting cars yourself is a responsible procedure that requires compliance with a number of conditions. A specialized camera for painting a car with your own hands - this option is chosen by many car enthusiasts today. Purchasing such an object will not be cheap, so some people prefer to independently provide what a do-it-yourself paint booth requires - drawings, materials, assembly.
Painting a car in this way has a number of serious advantages over using a spray gun in your own garage. Due to the tightness, you don’t have to worry about foreign particles of dust and dirt getting onto the painted surface.
In addition, the design eliminates the occurrence of unwanted air turbulence, due to which the enamel will not adhere to the surface properly, causing streaks, pimples and other defects to form.
DIY car painting
Do-it-yourself painting is profitable, but you will have to work hard to build it. With a competent approach and a conscientious attitude to work, you will be able to build a car painting booth yourself, which will help you avoid serious financial expenses and organize everything to your liking. Below we will look at how to make a spray booth with your own hands, and what steps are needed for this.\
First stage
Before you build a paint booth with your own hands, you should imagine what it will look like and prepare everything you need. Draw a project on paper that shows the future paint booth along with all its components to scale:
- premises;
- heat generator;
- heat gun;
- ventilation system.
These are the main points, each of which includes many smaller elements - doors, thermal insulation, lighting system, etc.
Spray booth room Let's talk about the premises
Before you make a paint booth with your own hands, you look for a suitable room. This could be a metal garage or a large workshop - the main thing is that you have the space and the ability to equip everything accordingly.
A car painting booth must have walls that meet a number of requirements:
- fire resistance;
- tightness;
- possibility of periodic washing;
- presence of thermal insulation.
The last point is especially important if we are talking about a garage with steel walls - you will have to make them double and put a layer of basalt wool or other fire-resistant heat-insulating material.
The room must be sealed Be sure to pay attention to the floor - it should allow air flow to circulate freely. For this purpose, make a covering in the form of a multilayer lattice - this way, normal air outlet and air flow will be ensured from below.
Two doors are a mandatory fire safety requirement. They must be easy to open to allow immediate evacuation in the event of a fire, and sealed to prevent dust and foreign particles from entering the room.
The dimensions of the chamber must be sufficient so that the master does not have any obstacles to free movement during his work. A concrete or metal frame can be chosen as the base. An exhaust mechanism with filters and valves is installed under the floor surface. Consider the need for walkways to move around.
Paint booth with water curtain on doors Lighting is important
In the process of painting cars with your own hands, one of the very important roles is played by room lighting. It needs to be bright enough, comfortable for the eyes, and not produce shadows or glare.
Practice shows that the most convenient option will be fluorescent fluorescent lamps - they are placed on the ceiling. To ensure sufficient visibility of the lower part of the machine, several oblong lighting sources are hung along the walls.
Fluorescent fluorescent lamps An equally effective solution to the lighting problem will be LED lamps. This type of lighting is becoming increasingly popular due to a number of advantages that LEDs have over other options:
- bright high-quality lighting;
- minimal energy consumption;
- low operating temperature;
- reliability;
- durability
Today you can easily install LED lighting in a room - it will cost a little more, but the result is worth it.
Without providing high-quality lighting, you will not be able to fully control the painting process, which will negatively affect the final result of the work.
Proper lighting in the spray booth Room ventilation, air purification and drying
A do-it-yourself paint shop is built taking into account all the requirements of painting technology and safety. Properly arranged air ventilation plays a key role here. It is responsible for purifying the air, as well as ensuring that paint mist is properly deposited and removed.
Depending on what principle is used in the room ventilation system, two types of chambers are distinguished:
- with one motor;
- with two motors.
In the first case, air is supplied to the room from above, and the fog settles down - the necessary pressure is applied to it. Finally it is discharged through an individual channel arranged for this purpose. In the second case, one of the motors pumps air, the second sucks it out, removing it from the chamber.
Spray booth ventilation The design will require high-performance ceiling air filters to eliminate the possibility of foreign particles entering the painting area. For this purpose, it is recommended to choose air filters that operate in a two-phase mode - in the first phase, large types of contaminants are removed, in the second - small ones. It is important to take into account that it is necessary to clean both incoming and outgoing air flows. Filters installed at the bottom clog faster and will have to be replaced much more often.
The installation of filters should provide for the possibility of turbulence in the air flow with enamel particles - to do this, you need to correctly position them around the perimeter of the room and take into account the air pressure.
After painting, the car will need to be dried - a special device is installed for this. For drying, a heat generator is used, which operates on an advantageous type of fuel. Some people use infrared heaters for this purpose. The main requirement for drying is a uniform supply of heat to avoid overheating.
Supply and exhaust ventilation in the painting booth Some more useful information
In order to complete the interior decoration, use non-flammable materials - for example, metal. You should not choose an option such as lining, as the risk of fire increases. Depending on how correctly the finishing work is carried out, it will be possible to assess the degree of tightness, which is important to avoid the ingress of dust and foreign particles. Give preference to smooth, easy-to-clean surfaces - this will simplify the cleaning process.
Think about the premises where inventory, paints, professional equipment, safety equipment, and workwear will be stored.
The work of painting a car is simplified by the presence of automatic process control. This, of course, will affect the cost of the entire project, but, on the other hand, you will receive a number of invaluable advantages. The automatic control panel must have a panel made of durable, reliable material. It should be easy to use, ergonomic and comfortable. Consider the ability to quickly switch between manual and automatic modes.
Conclusion
Building a specialized paint booth for a car is a labor-intensive process that will require a lot of effort and energy. You will have to monitor information about existing options and, based on them, come up with your own project - you can take any ready-made solution as a basis.
The process of working on the implementation of a project is difficult, but interesting - here you will be able to use your creativity, imagination and ability to cope with difficulties.
Proper painting of a car can only be carried out in a box where there is no dust, normal humidity and no drafts. This could be a professional box or a simple do-it-yourself spray booth. Any painting processes, car body repairs and touch-up of some parts are carried out indoors with optimal factors. A DIY paint booth is quite a complex project. But if you only need to do a small amount of work, you can use simple and inexpensive technologies.
If you want to paint a car professionally, the spray booth must be of high quality, large enough and equipped with everything necessary for convenient work. There should be no unnecessary items here; the entire room should be made completely sealed and comfortable for performing all necessary work. This is the only way the car will be painted with high quality, and the applied layers of paintwork will not come off with the first precipitation or frost. It is necessary to understand in more detail the issue of creating such an object.
Improvised box for painting your car
If you decide to update the paintwork on your car or do body repairs yourself, you can prepare your garage and use it as a paint booth. To do this, you will need to remove everything unnecessary from the garage and watch several useful videos with instructions on creating optimal conditions. If the garage is not heated, it is better to choose mid-autumn or spring, when the temperature is quite high. It is worth considering the following requirements:
- pay attention to the size - it is important that there is room around the car to move when painting;
- Do-it-yourself exhaust hood in the paint booth is of great importance - ventilation must be active;
- sometimes you will have to dry the air using ceramic or other types of electric heaters;
- it is important to clean the walls, floor and ceiling from dust and all kinds of contaminants, and ensure that there is no condensation;
- You should prepare everything in advance for normal movement around the garage with a spray bottle in your hands.
You will have to install a compressor and also acquire the required length of hoses. The car must fit completely; the garage door will have to be closed. A good solution would be to install a dust filter on the supply ventilation. It could even be a primitive device with a low price tag. As you can see, a DIY paint booth in the garage will require a lot of effort, but can save you quite a lot of money.
Organization of professional car painting booth
You can watch expert videos, study drawings, but still not understand how to build a paint booth with the necessary technical characteristics with your own hands. To paint a car, it is important to consider enough space around the car. Already at the stage of creating drawings, you will have to plan all the sizes and volumes, also taking into account the communications in the room. The following aspects will be important:
- Ventilation. This point often takes up to half of the total budget. Install high-quality industrial filters at the inlet and outlet, use several supply and exhaust channels.
- Interior finishing material. It should be a practical and smooth version of the material from which fresh paint can be easily washed off. Otherwise, you will have to constantly order chemical cleaning of the room.
- Climate control. This system must be able to control air temperature and humidity. For different types of car paint, you will need different environmental conditions.
- Auto drying mode after painting there is a significant increase in temperature for several hours, which also requires high tightness and thermal insulation of the building. Otherwise, the cost of a spray booth will be huge.
Not always, even for specialized purposes, all these features are taken into account. Cars can also be painted in less modern and expensive conditions. At the same time, some elements can not be purchased from complex expensive devices, but can be done with your own hands. To create good equipment you will need to purchase really high-quality blueprints. The best option would be to schedule construction separately for your project.
Ventilation - the main aspects of air input and output
In a paint booth, one of the most important aspects is ventilation. This is an opportunity to introduce dried air into a room and bring it to the desired condition in terms of cleanliness. Ventilation in a paint booth can be done with high quality with your own hands. To do this, you will need to buy reliable materials and organize their high-quality installation. It is worth considering some specific points:
- In such a facility for cars, it is important that there is no dust, so the ventilation holes should not be open;
- You can do the installation yourself, but it is best to buy materials and objects that are ready-made and of high quality;
- you should organize a type of ventilation in which you can regulate the inflow and outflow of air;
- An excellent solution would be to install fans on all ventilation openings to control the process.
To create proper conditions in the paint booth in winter, it may be necessary to heat the air for the ventilation holes. This will help supply already heated and dried air into the room in winter or autumn. This way you can paint the car yourself and not have to pay for the services of expensive workshops. It is not always possible to do this at low cost, so the benefits first need to be calculated.
Let's sum it up
There are many tips on how to make a camera for painting a car with your own hands. You can read incredible tips online about painting a car just outdoors using a can of some secret paint application technology. But rest assured that only a properly prepared box will be a truly effective way to renew or apply paintwork. No other option will work as efficiently and effectively.
You can often create good conditions for painting with your own hands right in your garage. But it is not always possible to complete all tasks with truly high quality. Therefore, you need to remember that a professional spray booth is the best solution. It’s no wonder that large companies spend a lot of money on creating and maintaining equipment in excellent condition. The cost of a paint booth depends on what your goals are. Sometimes you can make do with the means at hand and not spend extra money. But most often the costs will be quite large.
It's rare that a car survives its short life without being repainted. Foreign cars of non-Chinese origin can withstand 300-400 thousand kilometers; a car from the domestic auto industry ends up in the paint booth after about 100-150 thousand kilometers. There are few ways to restore the paintwork - take it to a company service center, use the services of garage technicians, or make a paint booth in the garage. Even taking into account the additional costs of renting equipment, a do-it-yourself paint booth in the garage will cost much less than the services of painters.
What does a paint booth consist of?
The cost of painting can range from 20 to 80 thousand rubles; for that kind of money you can temporarily equip your garage with a painting box. Even with painting equipment installed, the room will not cease to remain a garage, and after the painting work is completed, the garage can be easily restored to its original appearance.
To convert a garage space into a paint booth with your own hands, you will need to buy or rent the following equipment:
- Air compressor with a working pressure of 8-12 atm with a receiver and a water and oil separator;
- Two fans - supply and inflating;
- A set of four halogen spotlights, one and a half kilowatts each, or a heat gun;
- Fabric filter system;
- Three LED lights and six long fluorescent lamps;
- Set of measuring plastic utensils;
- Reinforced polypropylene film - canvas and fasteners.
Advice! Do not attempt to use oxygen tanks in your paint booth instead of an air compressor. In the event of the slightest spark, the paint booth in the garage will turn into an open-hearth furnace in seconds.
Oxygen painting gives an incredibly even and thin layer of paint, even without the use of gloss enhancers, due to the high purity of oxygen. But the risk is very high, so it’s easier to install an additional filter and moisture separator, and high-quality varnish and additives will provide shine and gloss.
How to make a spray booth
It’s worth mentioning right away that a do-it-yourself paint booth in the garage and the listed set of equipment will allow you to paint “almost well and with high quality” at most a few cars. For a semi-professional or professional approach, the level of equipment must be significantly higher, both in terms of painting tools and in terms of re-equipping the paint booth itself.
Converting a garage into a paint booth is carried out in three stages:
- A hood is installed in the garage;
- The walls, ceiling, and garage doors are finished with protective coatings and cladding;
- Heating and drying devices are installed.
Important! The quality of the paint layer directly depends on the amount of water vapor and dust in the atmosphere of the spray booth, so 30% of the equipment is designed to remove dust and fog from droplets of paint and varnish from the garage, the rest is for uniform drying of the painted surface.
The operating principle of the camera consists of two successive stages - painting parts using a spray gun and drying a layer of paint or varnish using heating devices, for example, halogen lamps or heating elements. Anything that does not fall on the surface to be painted and hangs in the atmosphere must be carefully removed from the chamber so that the fog does not settle on the paint surface. The air flow should come from above, and the air flow contaminated with solvent and paint should be removed through openings in the floor or in the lower part of the walls of the garage.
Arranging a garage space for a simple paint booth
To paint small car body parts and furniture elements, a small chamber about half the size of a garage is sufficient. The cost of building such a paint box will be an order of magnitude less than for a large room. To paint a car body, the chamber volume can be temporarily expanded to the size of the entire garage with the installation of additional lamps and heaters. Due to the low power of drying and ventilation equipment, the productivity in painting full-size body parts will be less.
In the garage space reserved for the camera, first of all, you need to remove absolutely all things and objects, leaving only the bare floor, roof and walls. The easiest way to separate the space of the paint box is with an awning - a curtain made of synthetic fabric made of polyester fibers. Such a fabric barrier should be attached around the perimeter using Velcro or zipper, as in the video:
For a small spray booth, it is enough to install two supply fans under the ceiling. Most often, air is taken from the second half of the garage; it is cleaner and warmer than outside. Removal of polluted air is carried out using the same pair of fans, but installed below, on the rear wall, almost on the floor of the garage.
To dry a painted surface in a small chamber volume, it is best to use powerful halogen lamps. A powerful stream of light makes it very easy to dry and heat the surface of a part prepared for painting. After painting, the ventilation can be set to minimum capacity and the drying process can be visually monitored.
When decorating walls, you can use experience that tells you how to cover a paint booth in a garage in the video:
For hot drying using heating elements, thin sheet metal is best suited. The walls of a small painting booth can be finished with cement-sand plaster, but before painting the surface will have to be moistened with a small amount of water from a sprayer. Plaster, like a sponge, will bind dust and water, making the walls conditionally “clean”. Metal or OSB boards collect dust very well, and it can only be removed with a vacuum cleaner. Plastic panels, due to strong electrification, can collect ten times more dust than metal or wood. The ceiling must be covered with OSB boards and sealed with reflective polypropylene film or aluminum foil.
During the painting process, it is very important to clearly see how a layer of varnish or paint is laid down, so even for a small chamber you need at least three rows of lamps: a row at a height of 60-70 cm from the floor, the top row of lamps at a level of 180-200 cm, and a ceiling lighting. On average, a paint booth from a standard garage requires 6-10 fluorescent lamps.
Setting up a semi-professional paint booth in the garage
It will cost more to build a semi-professional quality paint booth in a garage, but the conversion is much easier to complete. To do this, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, but use traditional and most effective technical solutions, for example, as in the video:
For a box for a painting booth, you can choose any garage, from a frame made of sandwich panels to a brick or cinder block one.
The first step is to install ventilation equipment in the garage. The exhaust part will require an inspection hole in which a pump-out fan will be installed. The exhaust from the fan in the pit is directed through a sheet metal duct into the filter box, after which the purified air is directed to the intake window of the supply fan.
A metal frame, welded from transverse and longitudinal channels with a window size of 50-60 cm, a structure height of no more than 15-18 cm, is laid on the surface of the concrete floor of the garage. Perforated steel sheets or a thick metal mesh will need to be laid on top of the frame. The gaps at the points where the frame meets the walls of the garage will need to be sealed with sealant and covered with tin.
Thus, contaminated air from the painting booth, dust and everything that falls on the floor is pumped out through a mesh in the floor by a ventilation device located in the inspection hole. A supply ventilation window is assembled on the garage ceiling from plasterboard and a steel corner. Through it, clean air is pumped into the spray booth. To prevent the entry of dust and dirt, the plane of the window is covered with a flour mesh.
The walls and ceiling of the garage for the painting booth are sheathed with thin sheet metal or composite insulation made of polyethylene foam with aluminum foil. Such cladding can be easily removed from dirt using a regular washing vacuum cleaner. It is necessary to install two rows of fluorescent lamps along the walls of the garage. For additional lighting, you can use portable flashlights with halogen lamps.
If the garage is finally “donated” for the construction of a paint booth, experts recommend changing to sectional or roller shutter booths. This gate design best “holds” the tightness of the spray booth and requires virtually no modifications to operate.
The main equipment - a compressor, a receiver and a set of filters - must be installed in a separate room. A system for collecting water and oil vapors must be installed in the circuit with the air blower and the receiver cylinder. The filter for the compressor can be made from ordinary non-woven fabric in the form of 3-4 meshes mounted in a metal box.
Conclusion
The cost of converting a garage into a full-fledged paint booth will cost approximately 1.5-2 thousand dollars, excluding the cost of purchasing compressor equipment. The average payback period at the initial stage will be 7-8 months with a profitability level of 10%. A mini-camera for the garage floor will cost up to $800 and can pay for itself in 4-5 months, since the number of orders for detailed painting is approximately three times higher than orders for a complete repaint of the car.
To carry out the car painting procedure, you must have not only suitable paint products, but also equipment. For this purpose, cameras are used to paint cars or their individual parts. Today, this equipment is produced by many industrial enterprises. You can also make your own spray booth directly in the garage.
The paint booth is a small room in which all conditions are created for high-quality application of any paint coating. During the dyeing procedure, a certain air temperature is maintained in it. The chamber is equipped with modern ventilation and filtration systems. In many auto repair shops this camera is used quite often. It is thanks to her that all paint and varnish work is carried out at a high level.
The most optimal air circulation is created in the room. Thanks to this, polluted air, which is inherent in all rooms where paint and varnish work is carried out, is removed outside. Before this, it undergoes a filtration procedure through filters, which are usually located on the floor of such a chamber.
The advantage of using a chamber for painting cars and other objects is that the air filled with volatile substances, which are found in almost every type of paint and varnish product, is purified and only then released into the atmosphere.
The chamber is always kept perfectly clean. Thanks to this, when the paint or varnish dries, a layer of dust does not form on the surface of the car, which will make the appearance sloppy.
Modern spray booths have improved appearance and performance. They are equipped with additional security systems. Thanks to this, they always maintain the optimal temperature for work. The automated system is capable of controlling the level of air heating itself. When the temperature rises to the heating level required by the standard, the camera automatically turns off the heating function.
The cameras have built-in timers that remove air containing toxins from the paint at certain intervals. Thanks to this option, cases of fire hazards are excluded.
In a paint booth, the process of applying paint products to vehicle surfaces is complex. It has several stages. The camera uses several operating modes that allow you to apply paint and varnish evenly and accurately.
The price of a spray booth depends on its technical characteristics and the manufacturer. On average, a high-tech camera for painting cars can be purchased from 400 thousand rubles. On the secondary market, spray booth models are cheaper.
Today there are a large number of companies that specialize in the production of paint booths. They offer consumers various types of them. However, not everyone can afford to buy a camera for 400-500 thousand rubles and try to make a similar device in their garage. Not many people know how to make a spray booth. The procedure for its manufacture is not simple.
First you need to choose the right room. It must be well ventilated and suitable the following requirements:
- The ceiling height should not be less than 2.8 meters.
- the length and width should be 6 and 4 respectively.
- the room must have insulation that is resistant to fire.
- To cover walls, it is best to use a matte white film. It must have a magnetizing effect.
- All coatings for individual areas of the room should have a matte texture.
- The space must be sealed.
Knowing these features, you can easily create a camera in your garage. This will save you a lot of money. After all, purchasing the necessary materials will require small expenses.
To create a camera you will have to completely remodel your garage.
Important: It is necessary to ensure that there is a ventilation system in the room. If there is an inspection hole under the garage, then it can also be ventilated. You can use metal gratings for this.
If there is none, then first you need to dig a small trench in the floor. Its depth must be at least a meter.
The garage, which is being converted into a booth for painting cars, must be insulated. For this it is recommended to use mineral wool.
It is important to make lighting as comfortable as possible. For this purpose it is necessary to use fluorescent lamps. They give an excellent level of glow.
DIY spray booth video
DIY paint booth drawings
Paint booth diagrams.
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In the modern world there are many models of cameras for painting cars. They are representatives of only two species:
- painting booths with a water curtain for air filtration,
- spray booths with dry air filtration.
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