Lizer
Mad Scientist
I'm building my new booth in my new shop. It's more like a well-lit, exhausted contained area for painting. One side of it will be a curtain so I can open it up to the rest of the shop and get the space back. The front of it is a 14' tall stud wall I'm building.
I'm considering putting the air intake filters near the floor at the front of the booth and up to 36" from the floor. There were a few reasons for this. First is I have a rolling tool bench that is going to become my paint mixing bench. It's 24" deep, and I'm going to put a new top on it that's about 30-36" deep and the extra length will go off the back. My bench will be rolled up against that wall but there will still be a 6" gap behind the bench and wall due to the counter top stick out the back, and that will leave room to pull air in through there and through the filters.
The other reason is because the concrete floor is cool in the summer so I can hopefully pull a little cooler air in, and the floor is heated in the winter. Then if I need to spray in the winter and need to supplement heat, I can roll the bench out of the way and put a salamander on the floor 8' in front of the intake filters or so, and suck the warm air right into the booth.
My current booth I put the air intake in the ceiling and that's a big mistake because it pulls all the hot air straight down from the truss space in the summer and it gets to be over 100 degrees in there.
Is there a reason I wouldn't want my air intake coming in low? My exhaust will be on the floor on the opposite end. Then I'd just be worried about the air moving straight across the floor and either stirring up dust or not being effective at clearing overspray. Since once side of the booth is a curtain, it will be pulling a lot of air in from the space between top of the curtain and the track, so 100% of the air is not getting pulled in through the intake.
I'm considering putting the air intake filters near the floor at the front of the booth and up to 36" from the floor. There were a few reasons for this. First is I have a rolling tool bench that is going to become my paint mixing bench. It's 24" deep, and I'm going to put a new top on it that's about 30-36" deep and the extra length will go off the back. My bench will be rolled up against that wall but there will still be a 6" gap behind the bench and wall due to the counter top stick out the back, and that will leave room to pull air in through there and through the filters.
The other reason is because the concrete floor is cool in the summer so I can hopefully pull a little cooler air in, and the floor is heated in the winter. Then if I need to spray in the winter and need to supplement heat, I can roll the bench out of the way and put a salamander on the floor 8' in front of the intake filters or so, and suck the warm air right into the booth.
My current booth I put the air intake in the ceiling and that's a big mistake because it pulls all the hot air straight down from the truss space in the summer and it gets to be over 100 degrees in there.
Is there a reason I wouldn't want my air intake coming in low? My exhaust will be on the floor on the opposite end. Then I'd just be worried about the air moving straight across the floor and either stirring up dust or not being effective at clearing overspray. Since once side of the booth is a curtain, it will be pulling a lot of air in from the space between top of the curtain and the track, so 100% of the air is not getting pulled in through the intake.
