Paint booth filters: looking for your opinions!

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  • Melissa
    March 16, 2011 at 8:21 pm #29599

    Hi everyone,

    I want to treat this like an online focus group. I’m looking for people’s honest thoughts and opinions on paint booth filters.

    What brand(s) do you currently use (for intake, exhaust, air makeup, etc.)?

    What do you like/dislike about your filters?

    How did you decide upon the current filters you have?

    Would you consider a new brand or are you loyal to what you have?

    Which one is more important: price or quality?

    Any thoughts, comments, rants, etc. you have about filters are welcome!

    Thanks!

    – Melissa

    Dennis B.
    March 21, 2011 at 12:02 pm #29696

    Hi Melissa
    Im have a Semi cross draft booth and am currently shopping for new Intake filters
    My booth Intake filters just lie flat on the roof on the intake side.
    Im currently running a heavy down draft style internal frame type design filter with Blankets type filters running across the top of those.

    Current plans are to engineer Intake too a real Intake box with Pre filters thru my regular filters too try and stop my Dust problems.

    If you know of any good filters to try I would be very interested

    Jayson Munro
    March 22, 2011 at 3:45 am #29713

    Viledon or camfil,very good filters.Do you have a gauge in your booth to show how much pressure there is?I’m thinking you need to change all your filters,and balance the pressure in your booth.Also you need to take more time with wiping,blowing,tacking.Sometimes I will go around a vehicle 5 times with a blower before it feels clean.Ryan gave you an excellent guideline to try on your next job.Usually good housekeeping is the problem and not the booth.I can get just as clean of a job out of our homemade 25 year old down draft vs our 5 year old downdraft.

    darren
    March 22, 2011 at 4:57 am #29714

    what are booth filters for?

    Don Wedor
    March 24, 2011 at 9:21 am #29761

    For exhaust I use the Paint Pocket Filters (white ones) and for intake I use Air flow tech. AFR-1

    the reason I use these is based on price and filter rating

    30 paint pockets cost me $78.00 99.84% at 10 microns
    20 Air Flow Tech AFR-1 cost me $110.00 95% at 10 microns

    these are Shipped to my Door Prices as well

    I have a Crossflow setup

    I have looked at buying the GFS Wave Filters but they are like $130 Shipped for 30 filters just dont seem right to have to pay almost Double the cost and not gain anything(I will say I have not Used the GFS filters and maybe they last longer than the Paint pockets to justify this extra cost )

    Melissa
    March 24, 2011 at 8:00 pm #29769

    Thanks for the feedback everyone!

    Wydir, do you remember where you got your quote for GFS Wave filters? Local distributor? Online site?

    Don Wedor
    March 24, 2011 at 9:03 pm #29776

    we go through Grainger I get like a 20% discount through them

    site says they are 137.00 and without discount cost would be $153 shipped

    my cost with Discount shipped would be $126.45

    Melissa
    March 25, 2011 at 2:01 am #29784

    [quote=”Wydir” post=19536]we go through Grainger I get like a 20% discount through them

    site says they are 137.00 and without discount cost would be $153 shipped

    my cost with Discount shipped would be $126.45[/quote]

    Thanks for that information, Wydir. Pricing can be a challenge when selling through distribution, as do most paint booth/filter companies. I will be sure to share this information with the management team. We really appreciate your feedback!

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