Mobile Paint Booth - Why Choose A Portable Spray Booth - Reviews
PrintHey guys I'm Sam crack and I've been trying to master an at-home paint job for a little while. Now I've had a few successes but I always have one major issue and that is bugs my Corvette Grand Sport bumper, a little Bug embedded itself deep in the clear coat ruining the whole thing, had to refinish the entire bumper two or three times over on my Focus RS, a few gnats decide to have a party right in the base coat. I haven't even got to refinishing that it's pretty clear to me I'm missing one big part of the puzzle and that is a clean room when you go to a body shop they paint in a spray booth, so I bought my very own spray booth and it's right here in this box that says made in China.
Let's see if it's any good this is an inflatable spray booth if anybody knows what that says right there in Chinese. Let me know we got a lot of unpacking to do let's get this thing unraveled roll out and see how it works.
So this entire thing roll out of that sack right there its massive just to show you how big it is, I'm about six foot one and this is how much space I take up just laying on I think we got this thing oriented right you can see there's clear plastic parts that's so like you could see through into it, but there's two ends you're supposed to be able to drive an entire car in this thing. We're gonna find out whether that's possible or not and then at the end right over here we've got the two air inlets. We're gonna put two blower motors right here and it's gonna blow air into this thing inflating it and also circulating air inside so I'm assuming you don't die while you're painting a car.
Alright I think we've got this thing adjusted, it's huge I can't believe how big it is but I don't have any stakes in the ground and I don't want to flying away, so I'm gonna do right now here let's check this out. How am I supposed to even get Ernest part our paint booth is set up. It's secured I ran out to the store got a couple of these tent stakes like if you're going camping these are about 75 cents a piece got one in every single corner and now the thing isn't moving too much even though we've got a cross-breeze the wind is blowing, this way right now I want to take you for a quick tour of this thing and I know you're wondering what do you mean a quick tour, it's just a big empty inflatable room well no there's actually some really cool stuff going on here that makes it unique now. Obviously we got these big air chambers all around to give the booth its structure, but remember there's two blowers on the outside there one is for fresh air in the booth, so that you're able to breathe, so that there's ventilation that's really important when you're painting and these things right here, you can see there's four of them, there's one right here, one right there and then two over there these are actually a filtration system. So you can see this velcro you peel it off there's a filter behind that filtering out all the bugs all the dust, all the debris that could be entering in here. Obviously, we've got this placed outside stuff that would ruin your paint job. It's got a complete filtration system and ventilation system. How cool is that now behind those two filters over there is actually a segregated room here.
Let me take you on the outside and show you in between the two filters there's actually a zipper to allow access in and out of the main room here and then you've got this little segregated room right here, you can also access it from the backside. There's a zipper right there but I'm gonna go right back here because it's kind of loud with the blowers running this is where you're gonna keep your paint system or your tools necessary to paint, whatever you're painting so if you got a compressor you go you wheel it in right here if you've got what we've got a turbine based paint system you put it in right there you run your air lines and your power in right here and then everything stays right here again, that way so you have less things in the room with you when you're painting, so things don't get dirty and contaminated of course we've already talked about the sheer size of but look at it up next to the barn it's almost as tall as the barn. It's huge and I like these windows on the side let's you see in if you're inside lets you see out, it's just kind of nice it lets that natural light and while you're painting talking about light if you wanted some added lights, people like to have a room lit up when they're painting. So they can see what they're doing you've got all sorts of hooks on the inside to hang whether it's just a light or something else you got hooks on all four corners. There being that this is one of the smallest cars in the market today, this is a good gauge to show you how much room you actually have and I parked it further over on the passenger's side but say that you wanted to paint a side of the car you'd have plenty of room, there's a good I don't know three feet four feet from the doors to the wall of the paint booth and now if you parked it in the middle you get a good three feet probably on each side the rear right here is where you'd end up zipping the booth up, so you got several feet behind you and we've got several feet in front of us the obvious that people will be working on cars a bit larger than this I've got a compact SUV let's drive that in here and see how much room we've got our Lincoln SUV is much more representative of pretty much the average car, a lot of people are driving midsize SUVs small SUVs and we can see there's still a good amount of room really on all sides. We have a couple feet up here. We definitely have about three feet here you've got another three feet here we check out the roof if you had to do some paintwork or bodywork on the roof, you're gonna have plenty of room to set up a little ladder in here and spray there's still a ton of room in this thing so even though it looks novelty it seems really functional as I said earlier.
We're gonna be using a turbine based paint system that is this small little box right here yes no big compressor all you do is plug it in to 110 you flip the on switch, right here you've got an air hose that comes out here connects to your hose and spray gun that's it no moisture filters no pressure regulators just the box a size of a toaster and we're going to be spraying base and clear using this system.
During our first round of paint on the front bumper, it was cold outside. I was using the wrong reducer and I messed things up quite a bit I went and scuffed it all down flat. You can see the problem areas right in here but this should just require maybe one or two more layers of base coat it'll be finished ready for clear I brought in the rear bumper as well now which has been completely primered scuff, so right now I want to try and nail down our base coat.
And this is one of the drawbacks of a blow up spray booth it's unpredictable, so what happened just now is that it must have been too much electricity for both fan motors and our turbine system be running and it cut the power to it I went I reset the breaker I swapped the power cord on the turbine unit to another breaker, so we should be good, let's resume our painting and we're lucky that we caught that in time that could have been an absolute disaster base coat laid down really nice smooth and even on our rear bumper the color is spot-on and now we just have to wait a few minutes before we're able to spray.
Our clear coat on it and when I started spraying the front bumper especially in the troubled area it was clear I didn't put enough prep work into it, there are a few runs and I didn't sand them down well enough, you could see them through the base coat that I was spraying and if we went and sprayed clear over this it would just basically highlight it, so I'm gonna put this off to the side wait for it to dry and get it prepped the right way next time I'm gonna take you through that process and a lot of things I learned while painting these bumpers in an upcoming video check this out there is my bumper it is freshly clear coated can't see it really well through these windows here, but I'm going to let this sit with the booths zipped up for probably a couple hours before I move it outside and put the booth down it looks pretty good I finally did a decent job. Now I'm sure there's a few you out there wondering how much did I spend on this thing. That's a great question I was inspired to buy one of these inflatable spray booths when I saw some similar inflatable booths on Amazon that were ranging between like five and seven hundred dollars but they weren't as nearly as big as this one is it'd be tough to fit an entire car in one and so I went and started searching around and found a bounce house manufacturer that would build me one a custom size. So this one you should be able to fit a Ford f-150 in it and I paid a thousand dollars just for the booth alone the two blowers we're about a hundred dollars apiece they range anywhere from like eighty to a hundred and fifty dollars, so total I minute around thirteen hundred dollars, yeah it's not extremely cheap but it is extremely effective and it is substantially cheaper than building an actual spray booth but it does come with a handful of drawbacks the only other drawback I could tell you about this thing is that it is big and it is very bulky as you can see it's still not completely deflated after sitting probably about 30-45 minutes after I shut the fan Motors off and putting this thing away is kind of a nightmare, I'm already dizzy and tired but it's gonna take me a little while longer to wrestle with this thing so do me a favor out there if you enjoyed this one be sure to give it a like also if you're not ready follow me on Instagram go right here click the link in the description box below where I post pictures of things like the inflatable spray booth before they go live on YouTube guys I want to thank you very much for watching I will catch you very soon you.