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You need at least 3 feet of distance from the car to the booth walls to allow room for the air hose and airborne paint droplets to drop out. My booth was 12 x 24 x 8 (I pm'd you a picture). Using your drawing, if it was me I would exhaust the fumes outside via the drive in door.
Point simply is that anyone building a shop can plan ahead and have a shop that can be converted to a paint booth very easily on occasion if they just plan ahead. This same thing can be accomplished by adding a lean-to to an existing shop. If I was doing this and had no paint shop, I'd look into buying a cheap easily erected metal carport.
It actually looks like he would be pulling incoming fresh air into the booth to pressurize it. That would allow the box fan to be used. It the fan is used to push contaminated air OUT of the booth, that could be a problem!! I would leave the fan on until all the fumes are out of the booth before restarting it if it is installed inside as a puller.
Just rolled the rotisserie down the ramp at the front of the garage and into the booth. Easy enough to do. I remember my buddy looking at the paint job going it doesn't look very good and I told him now the hard work begins as the paint has to set up for a while and then the whole car had to be wet sanded and buffed out.
I'm preparing to put a paint booth in the shed and have some squirrell cage fans. They move a lot of air, and would be really nice to exhaust the booth while painting. I'm a little concerned with paint/air mixture passing over the motor (sparking away) inside the fan. I don't have enough money for a shielded type of exhaust system.
I NEVER said anything about having a torpedo heater IN the paint booth. Mine is outside the front doors of the booth. There is a plenum attached to the doors over the fresh-air intake 'window's'. The snout of the torpedo is inserted into the plenum duct, more or less to adjust the temperature of the air coming into the booth. No flame in the booth!
My "paint booth" is very simple. I hung a 10mil thick clear pastic dropcloth from some wire rope that I ran down one side of the both. This way the curtain is tucked away when the both is not in use and I have a full floor again. It also directs the aitflow and keeps any overspray in the booth. I used regular HO 8 footers.
A couple observations from when i was looking at the paint booth issues. First the recomendation is a positive preassue booth... but you need a dedicated filtered outlet. you should be running more volume in blown in from filtered fans. and have the exhaust side be on the floor side so that it will help draw the paint spray and such out.
freind owned a commercial shop , and in the winter we used the booth for blasting , you have to make sure the fans and intake and outflow filters work real good , and also we hung a tarp over the car door to the booth to to help make a dust/blast barrier on the inside ( air intake was thru the doors ) , when you clean up the sand you have barrel it out , and then vacum and wash and wipe the ...
The 4th one is in a home built paint booth and its limited to about 50 psi but plenty of volume and cooling. If you only plan to operate a high volume/low pressure gun, its quick,cheap and efficient. As for your other line, if you decide to continue to use it, I would fill it with kerosene and let it set for a few days.