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Deciding What You Need
The next step in buying a paint booth is analyzing your situation. There are a couple of important facts about your business to consider:
What do you need the booth to do?
Spray booths can server two main purposes: collecting overspray or fumes to keep them out of the shop atmosphere, and filtering incoming air to protect finishes during spray painting. Decide which is more important to you – or if they're both essential.
Automotive painting, for example, requires highly filtered air to prevent blemishes in the finish. Industrial coatings may be hazardous but the final products may be more tolerant of minor blemishes, so collecting and venting fumes is more important.
How much space do you have and need?
The physical size of the booth is another basic consideration. There are two main factors: the booth has to be big enough on the inside to hold the products you're working on and provide space for workers and their tools to move around safely and easily.
The external dimensions of your paint booth are constrained by the available space in your shop, plant, or warehouse. When talking with suppliers about external dimensions, check and double check the space if there's any question about clearances. If it's close at all, having a rep from the supplier come out to your location to measure for themselves can help avoid any problems down the line.
What extra features do you need?
These features range from nice to have to essential, depending the work you need to do in your booth. Because they'll all add to your final cost, try to stay focused on those that really matter to your business.
- Lighting. More important in fully enclosed booths, where you'll be dependent on the internal lighting to do your work. Look for the number and placement of lights, as well as how easy it is to change burned out bulbs: some let you make changes from the outside, so you can do so without interrupting the work.
- Manometers. These gauges measure airflow coming through your filters to let you know when it's time for a change. Recommended for all booths.
- Doors. Any booth should have at least a couple of options of different types of doors. You may need one for moving in products and another for personnel, and you may want 'airlocks' that let workers safely enter while coatings are being applied.
- Auto shutdown. A safety feature that measures air flow and cuts off power to spray equipment if it detects any problems.