Shop improvements?

AAE

AAE

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So, I have this everyday garage that I do occasional painting in. Dust, as you can imagine, is an issue. How would you improve this area yet keep it usable as a garage?
 
I'd take it slow, start with a cabinet for your paint supply stuff like the paint, tints, even sandpaper.. I also cannot keep a clean table at my shop. Set up a table to use, eventually its full and no more table, I cannot stand that. I gotta get some cabinets.
 
I have the storage and the overfilled table. Do you use dust control sprays or just water on the floors?
 
Thats a tough one AAE. I dont have a lot of experience, but I have a room I can totally empty when I paint. All thats in that room is me, an air regulator, a paint table with the product Im spraying, and the part Im painting. If you have an air exchange system in the garage in the photo, it may be pulling dust from all the stuff thats sitting in the room if all that stuff is in there when you paint. Im thinking you have too much area there that can introduce dirt into your paint.
 
Definitely coming from the small places. I don't have water connection near the garage plus it's winter so hoses are put away. I do use a garden sprayer but the volume is nothing so it dries by the time I get around. My extraction is a 24 in fan. I open an opposite window from draw.
 
I think I would try and figure out a way to drop a plastic partition and make sure it can be sealed off. Then move anything you can behind the petition when you want to spray in the section where your fans are. That would eliminate a lot of dust input. I know its a pain but an hour paint prep in the booth is worth a lot. Also makes the area smaller when it comes to keeping panel temps up prior to spraying and after spraying.
 
zip wall & plastic makes a quick partition, I use them regularly at work and in the garage.
 
I was also going to suggest a curtain system. 1-1/2" pipe on the ceiling, white vinyl fabric for the curtains, hog rings around the pipe and through grommets in the fabric. Set it up so the curtains go from 2 walls at the ends to overlap where they meet. This way you can open the space back up when not painting.
 
AAE;n80576 said:
I have the storage and the overfilled table. Do you use dust control sprays or just water on the floors?
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I have used both, usually stick to water unless we are using the creeper to get under the rockers. Last dust control liquid I got from Bar Z was just soapy blue water, so it was like putting water down with some dish soap so it does not evaporate too quickly. It went down nice with a pump up insecticide sprayer though. 3N 06837 was really sticky and real expensive. So pretty much we hose down the floor now, mop up the water with most of the dust that was in there, then just spray down more water as we go. Funny thing, more water on the floor seems to make the paint dry faster, something about single component moisture cure paints.
 
I've been thinking about using your typical beige tarps on the front & open side of my carport/work area. will weigh down the bottoms. In theory they should act as a big filter for incoming air.
 
If you filter the incomming air with something to trap the contaminants, I dont think the tarps wont really do anything.
 
Furnace filters for incoming air work well if you have a window you could use, the larger incoming air area will help control pulling from any leaking crevices which is a dust issue.
 
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