Painters booth question
For all you that paint. What do you heat your booth with ? I have only painted in the summer months but I want to do more in the winter months.
any type of heat will work. non flame is best. infra red works ok but will only heat up the object that it's pointed to. radiant IR works slightly better. all flame types work also but they have to be OUT when painting starts. (I turn off IR also)
When I was up in Michigan and painting cars in the winter it was harder to paint than in the summer because of:
1. I had to pre- heat the garage and car up to 70 or so and make sure the car got there too! cold metal doesn't hold paint well.
2. heat went off BEFORE the paint went on. (no flames or heat source for fires)
3. fast evacuation of air/fumes to help save heat in the garage and keep car warm during that critical time for cross-linking to happen.
4.
heat came back on only after the air was clear and not a minute earlier. yeah I have been in a room when it went up like a rocket and it ain't funny. I woke up outside my friends garage(I had just come in to check on hime and was standing by the big garage door inside) when he turned the heat on right after spraying the car. he had severe 2nd degree burns over all exposed parts of his body and melted coveralls right into his arms and neck. The complete 2/3rd of back of the garage was blown out.
5. leave heat on for the paint to cure , however long that takes.
I am sure there were other things I did, but it has been 14 years since I did my last snowy winter paint job. Now I'm in Florida and my winter painting consists of chasing the damned palmetto bugs out of the garage long enough to paint.
