Spray Booths

Go to Home Depot, and ask for an in-line duct fan, which is used in the air ducting of homes as a 'booster' fan for remote air ducts, etc.  Mine is a 6" fan, and it ran me about $35.  You can pick up some aluminum duct elbows too.  You'll then need to be able to wire it up, so that will be the bulk of your research and concern, I think.  Get a rocker light switch and a long plugin, a small gangbox, and plan to hook all of this up on the outside of the box.

Then, go over to the lumber area and pick up a small sheet of "project board", which is thin (1/4") particle board I think.  Build yourself a box (or have your sheet metal relative do so) and then drill out a hole for the fan.  Install fan, tape it sealed, install metal foil drier ducting.

You're set.

You can get more fancy by installing a filter in front of the fan, a light, a clear acrylic cover/door, and whatever other features you want to, as well. 

Cost of new spraybooth: $150 to $300.

Cost of emphysema:________

Cost of new liver:________

Cost of new kidney:_______

Cost of neuropathy and CNS damage:__________ 

Fill in the blanks, then just do the math. 

Cost of new spray booth: DIRT CHEAP! 

My first spraybooth cost less than $10, discounting my time and labor. I scrounged the parts and material and built it myself. Did the same thing for my second, twenty years later. It cost $15.

That depends. Which is more important to you? Your lungs, the lungs of your loved ones, or a few bucks?

A lot of people don't bother and just use a respirator in their garage. I can't, I have to use my basement, and that air circulates through the house. I won't take a chance and compromise my family's safety. I built mine for less than $150, and it works great.

Fans are easy to set up. Get your nephew busy!