This booth has been put together in my shed in one of the 6 bays that make up my shed. As some might know I have a number of Torana projects in the build and I thought it would be better to build a booth at home to try and save money and time moving my cars around to the painters and everything can be done in house (or shed). I'm very happy with the way its coming along with the only problem being that it may be a little narrow to do larger cars but I may have found a way to solve that problem with a set of wheel dollies which will let me move the cars from side to side if need be. The dimensions of standard booth is usually 7x4 metres internal measurement. The best I can do here due to purlin location is an internal measurement of 7x3100. As I said a little narrow but hey as I said before 'beggar's can't be chooser's'. I did a fair bit research before deciding which way to go and I finally decided on a semi down draught style set up. With that it will have an intake fan and filters in the room above the front doors and an exhaust fan and filters in the end wall. This booth will double as a dust room where all the filler work will take place as I don't want to get dust through the shed. What I'll so is when the body work is done I'll hose the booth out which will then double as a paint booth. I'm going to use the best filters I can to keep dust and fumes down as much as possible. Anyway enough talk, have a look at the pics and see what I've done and if anyone can offer any suggestions along the way then PLEASE feel free to voice your opinions.
It all started when my good mate Matty rang and said that he was pulling out an old cool room from a restaurant that he was renovating and asked if I could use the old panels. Of course I jumped at the chance and in a few days I had a heap of 2700x1200 75mm and 3000x1200 150mm thick freezer panels stacked in the yard.
I then decided that the booth was going to be built in an end bay for ease of access.
I then had to set out the side walls and work out where the upright purlins were going to be set out. I ran a string line to make sure things were nice and straight.
As I want to use the top of the booth for storage so I don't waste any space I had to build a pretty sturdy frame and I had to reinforce the end wall to take some weight. I bought all the purlins from ebay bit by bit as a time.
With the set out of the side purlins I worked it out that the joins in the walls will have a purlin behind each join. I cut the ends off some of the panels and layed them on the floor to help measure out the length of the walls.
I spaced the roof joists at 410 centres to strengthen things up a bit. The roof purlins are 150's
The first panels I put into place was then end wall where the exhaust filters are going to be. Before putting the panels up I filled the walls with roof ceiling batts. I then put the panels up and started building the framework for the filters and exhaust stack.
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