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Thought I would share some photos of my project which is in the priming stage right now, hoping it is useful to some of you who may be approaching this stage soon as I know I appreciated seeing the progress of those who were just ahead of me. Making my garage into a spray booth was not very difficult. I used 12' high plastic sheeting (plenty of length to drape over the tarp on the floor) and stapled it to the sheetrock at the top of the wall. I doubled over the plastic so the staples would have 2 layers to hold on to. I overlapped the seams by about 3 feet. I covered the garage door in plastic independently so I could open the door when needed. I put one large tarp and a couple of small ones to cover the entire floor. I duct taped tarp to the floor at the garage door entrance so my dolly and chassis could roll in and out without bunching up the tarp. I placed a good quality 20" box fan with metal blades in a window as my exhaust. I also taped a 20x20 cheap furnace filter on the inside of the box fan to reduce the amount of paint passing through the fan to protect the fan motor from sucking in paint and overheating and burning out... (happened to me once before), also helps to keep paint mist off the outside of the house which keeps wife happy. 
No plastic on ceiling and no overspray stuck there just as John McGraw said it would be... thanks John. I also made a 3 inch by 16' wood frame in sections to place under the garage door as fresh air inlet. I placed screen mesh (to keep the bugs out but it also kept out our local chipmunk ) over about 6' of it at the end furthest from the fan and plastic on the rest once again using my handy staple gun. I used a HVLP gun and felt I had very good ventilation (use of a politcally correct respirator recommended). The blue tarp was still blue when I was done. I also ran another small fan at my compressor to help keep it cool. I ran about 40' of air hose (mostly still wound up) to a small moisture/oil/dirt filter mounted on wall bracket held with duct tape then 25' of hose to the gun which also had a small ball shaped (last chance) plastic filter. I had no moisture problems. The weather was slightly humid. Good lighting is a must. I used my four ceiling lights each with 200-300 watt utility bulbs plus I have 2 windows to let more light in. I expected this to be one hell of a messy job but if you take your time and plan ahead it isn't bad at all. Thanks again to John McGraw for sharing his body work & painting expertise which helped me tremendously with this phase of the restoration.
No plastic on ceiling and no overspray stuck there just as John McGraw said it would be... thanks John. I also made a 3 inch by 16' wood frame in sections to place under the garage door as fresh air inlet. I placed screen mesh (to keep the bugs out but it also kept out our local chipmunk ) over about 6' of it at the end furthest from the fan and plastic on the rest once again using my handy staple gun. I used a HVLP gun and felt I had very good ventilation (use of a politcally correct respirator recommended). The blue tarp was still blue when I was done. I also ran another small fan at my compressor to help keep it cool. I ran about 40' of air hose (mostly still wound up) to a small moisture/oil/dirt filter mounted on wall bracket held with duct tape then 25' of hose to the gun which also had a small ball shaped (last chance) plastic filter. I had no moisture problems. The weather was slightly humid. Good lighting is a must. I used my four ceiling lights each with 200-300 watt utility bulbs plus I have 2 windows to let more light in. I expected this to be one hell of a messy job but if you take your time and plan ahead it isn't bad at all. Thanks again to John McGraw for sharing his body work & painting expertise which helped me tremendously with this phase of the restoration.
