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Ok I’m finally getting around to installing my booth and have few questions I’d appreciate your expertise and opinions on.
Would a plug socket in the booth be handy for heat gun etc any reason y this would be a bad idea etc?
Also as I have recently acquired neighbours I am now thinking rather than run the exhaust straight up threw the roof I am considering turning it 90 degrees and taking it 4 metres/13ft horizontal and out the rear wall this keeps any fumes and the sight of the chimney hidden from there view as much as I can (they know its being fitted and what it does) will this cause me any issues?
Thanks
Malmake sure use a squirrel cage fan, they can push though counduits better than a fan
[quote=”reckless” post=32746]make sure use a squirrel cage fan, they can push though counduits better than a fan[/quote]
I probably should have said this is a proper nova verta spraybooth/oven I’m installing not a home made booth which I think your referring to with fan
Thanks for the reply thou
Couple pics of it at min under construction :weights
Looking good mate,im jelous lol :cheers
[quote=”Mal” post=32744]
Would a plug socket in the booth be handy for heat gun etc any reason y this would be a bad idea etc?[/quote]Uhhh, yeah. How about the potential for an explosion??? :p
You have live electrical current in the socket, and flammable solvents flying around the booth. One spark from a faulty socket or a spark when you plug in the lamp while there’s still fumes in the booth (at any time) and baaaaaam!
In Australia, we’re not allowed to have any electrical GPO/socket installed in a spray booth due to safety reasons. In fact, inside the light system which is sealed from the booth itself, a separate fan pushes fresh air through the light boxes to evacuate them of any solvent that may have entered.
So my take. Bad idea. Don’t do it.
[quote=”Mal” post=32744]
Also as I have recently acquired neighbours I am now thinking rather than run the exhaust straight up threw the roof I am considering turning it 90 degrees and taking it 4 metres/13ft horizontal and out the rear wall this keeps any fumes and the sight of the chimney hidden from there view as much as I can (they know its being fitted and what it does) will this cause me any issues?
[/quote]Depending on local codes, you probably can’t do this (and shouldn’t do this). Here, the exhaust flue needs to be a certain height above the roof, and another certain height again above the inlet fan itself. If you have the exhaust fan below the plane of the inlet intake, the potential exists for exhaust to re-enter the fresh air supply. That’s another big no-no.
[quote=”Scoobycarl” post=32751]Looking good mate,im jelous lol :cheers[/quote]
Thanks I’ve been jealous of other people’s for years and finely managed to get my own :dnc
Yeah I’d thought on the socket issue but I’ve seen them in many home bru booths and the air change in most of them would prob be considerably less than a proper set up maybe. The socket I was thinking on fitting would have been the exterior type which u lift the sealed cover plug in close the sealed cover over the plug then switch it on threw the sealed cover/switch but your prob right so think I’ll leave that idea.
I had thought on chimney needing to be above roof ridge height etc as in a house chimney but over the last few months I’ve been looking at other shops/installations around the country and there appears to be no uniform way some are straight up through roof 6 inch others are 5-6ft and some are out the side wall.
My exhaust and intake would be about 7-8 metres away from each other and on separate walls around a corner this is considerably further than your standard fitment which is side by side and exhaust being 2-3ft taller so I don’t think intermixing of the two will be any worse an issue.
I see a lot of booths seem to get their intake air from with in the shop I had thought about this but thought if u had got a contaminate in the shop u would just be sucking it into the booth so I think it’s prob better to just take in relatively fresh air from outside.Another question that’s been in my head lately is booth coatings any recommendations that 3m roll or spray coatings or just repaint in when gets dirty as most people here seem to do?
Thanks for replies
I didn’t take this pic for quite this purpose but, if you look in the reflection you can see how we do exhaust flues here. That’s the back of a big panel shop across the road from mine and each of the tall flues is a booth or convertible prep bay, plus two more out of sight in this photo. Basic rule is that exhaust be 3m above roof level or any intake and the logic for this is that any isocyanates will dissipate sufficiently to be of no danger if released at that height. Might be worth thought in your plans…
I thought that I studied the rules fairly well before we built our booth and don’t recall any restriction on power points (could be wrong). At any rate, there are two doubles in my booth and they’re worth their weight in gold. I can run extra lights, heat lamps, IRs or even use them for other things while maintaining, including a vacuum cleaner. They are the external type with covered socket.
Obviously any local regulations you have would take precedence on both these points.
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Infra red heater that’s what I had in my mind the other day when I was thinking about power points and all I could think of when writing the post was heat gun lol I was thinking earlier if u were afraid of spark explosion that it would be very simple to have a remote switch operating outside the booth.
Nice reflection NFT5 :cheers
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