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Old 08-18-2020, 07:59 PM
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I purchased an inflatable paint booth from Amazon. Mine is 23' x 16.4' external, 13.5' x 18.5' internal, the max size I could fit inside my garage. I worked with the seller in China to get additional straps, removeable floor, windows for hoses etc. I use 2 large shop vacuum hepa filters on each of the blowers, 1 to inflate the booth, 1 blows air into the booth. I would have never sprayed my car without it, saves a lot of mess. I bought 6 led strip lights that clip on the windows and at the front, on the garage door. I have never sprayed in a "real" spray booth so I cant compare, I am sure it is no comparison. It certainly is better than when I sprayed cars in my old garage. I bought some additional filters for the exhaust side of the booth and the "spray fog" is not bad. I had no problem rotating the car on the rotisserie, just need to rotate upside down to fit through the booth door. It took me over a year to spray my car, so many coats, epoxy primer, polyester primer, urethane primer, base, clear coat, satin clear coat, dash in white, ceramic sound deadening, bed liner etc + spraying everything separate, taking the car & parts to a local spray booth would have involved so many trips.

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It took me over a year to spray my car, so many coats, epoxy primer, polyester primer, urethane primer, base, clear coat, satin clear coat, dash in white, ceramic sound deadening, bed liner etc + spraying everything separate, taking the car & parts to a local spray booth would have involved so many trips.
Do you leave the blower running all the time and keep it inflated, or just let it collapse and re-inflate as needed? Some have talked about PVC structure inside to hold it up when the blower isnt running.

Which brand do you have?

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Old 08-19-2020, 06:20 PM
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The booth when inflated takes up quite a bit of room in my garage. I have to open the center garage door to move major parts or the car in and out. It would not be practical in my case to leave it permanently inflated. It is very easy to just fold up a section of it so I can still use that space in the garage. The booth takes less than 5 mins to inflate, I then put down a plastic sheet which I dispose of when it gets too dirty and fold up before letting the booth down. I then move the parts in the booth which I want to spray and then switch on the the other blower which does the filtering.
This is the one I got, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...e?ie=UTF8&th=1
That is my review on there.
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