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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Winters Ca. 95694
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New shop set up! (paint booth)
It feels so good to empty out your shop/garage and do a good cleaning and up grades. This week end I cleaned out over half my shop so I could get started on my temp. paint booth. My shop was built back in 1915 +- and was the carriage house for fixing buggy's and model A's back in the day. Now it is my 25'x45' fab shop and soon to be two story for fab work up stairs and vehical work down stairs. But for now it is all in one so I find my self always changing things around to better suit my needs at the time. I have a few customer build right now that will be needing paint work not to mention all of my own projects that need way more than paint.
What I did was removed all the old electrical that was mounted to the ceiling joists and then installed 1/2" plywood to a 16'x24' area in the center of the shop that will be the paint booth. I then primmed it and painted on two coats of a gloss white paint before hanging the 18 4' lights. I still need to build the side wall that will be perminent and close off my storage area from the main part of the shop. This wall will also house the intake air filters. I will have an exhaust fan in the far corner of the ceiling that will go out a roof window that is their. The other walls will be 10mil plastic that will be sealed off to the ceiling and floor. It should work out fairly well and also help keep the rest of the shop cleaner than it has been. Here are a few pics that I wanted to share. Keep in mind everything that is in the shop now is temporary untill the roof comes off for the second floor steel beams and new work area above. I welcome all thoughts and ideas! Kevin LFD Inc. |
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
Now I just need to work on the rest of the yard to really clean things up.
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
looks really good Kevin! I'm jealous since I am stuck in a tiny apartment with no garage
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
Good plan. I bet that white ceiling and new lights really brightened up the place inside. I'm eager to see how the temp paint booth area works out.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: ** THE FALL GUY **CHICAGO IL
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
looks nice kevin..your always doing something..
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Dallas, TX
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
thats my dream, to some day have a house with a nice detached garage so i can build a workshop.
the "built in 1915" part is really awesome. i love old things, from radios, guitars, vehicles, and buildings too! we have an office in san fran that is in a historical part of town. we just finished moving out of it, and to me, its a shame to see that renovated building be sold off. just the fact that we were running a highly technological business out of an (however old it was) building, was really cool to me. |
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
Looks good Kevin. Are you making plans for lights at the bottom of the booth? Your gonna need light down low too...
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Winters Ca. 95694
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
Thanks guys. Yes I just went out to see how the lights work at night so I can get the full affect. It is like day time without any shadows
![]() Yes I am a very lucky guy to have this set up and I thank GOD for letting me for allowing me to be this lucky. I was in an apart ment for awhile then rented a house and when I could afford a small house I bought it and fixed it up a bit and four years later I doubled my money and bought this dump. Yes I said dump because that is what it was two years ago. We are the new kids on the block. Our house was built in 1928+- and the houses around us were built between 1875 and 1900. By 1928 they stopped using the shop for cars and buggys. When we bought it it looked real bad but I saw the potential in the house and the shop did not hurt. It has been alot of work with alot more to go. Here are a few pics of the house when we bought (4-1-05) it and now. Kevin LFD Inc. Last edited by Rokcrln; 02-04-2007 at 11:14 PM. |
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
you lucky bastard..hahaha.. just kidding but i wish i had a shop like that and a driveway like that to looks good man
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
Nice set up. The house does not look that old with all the updates. The driveway rocks...
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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lookin good, 1 piece at a time and everything comes together
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
House looks great - cool shop too!
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
hey nice work on the house and garage. lots of people going to turn green.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kent, WA
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
How do you get away with that with all the air quality issues in CA? Just curious...I need something like that in my pasture!
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
Where is that big bus from Extreme House makeovers?
Looks great Kevin.
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
Are you concerned about fire/explosion from the open lights, fans & paint fumes?
Are you going to sheet rock the walls? |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Wesley Chapel, Florida
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
From the looks of it and the time it was built is it a Craftsman house? That is cool. I would like to do that someday find a rundown 1920-1930's Craftsman and rehab it and build a garage to it. I wonder if there is a place to search for them.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Ca.
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
Kevin, I would like to drop bye this week after work and check out the great work you've been up too?
Thanks Dan
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Winters Ca. 95694
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Re: New shop set up! (paint booth)
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As far as fire/explosion form the lights I am not concerned. For the fan it will be the explosion proof type ($$ ![]() Dan I will be home all day (except 10-noon) Tuesday working out in the shop, just come on by. Kevin LFD Inc. |
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