Thermaltake Level 10 GT Casemod

I am not a professional painter by trade but have painted cars, trucks, motorcycles and computer cases in the past and only once has the item actually been in a ventilated paint booth.  Most of the time I drape heavy clear plastic from the ceiling to create a clean room of sorts and build my paint booth from that.   Because of this you can’t really call it a "paint booth" but rather a separated area used for painting to keep overspray off stuff and dirt out of your paint.

My garage has a finished ceiling and for cosmetic reasons I didn’t want to attach 2x4’s to the rafters just to hang my plastic from.  Instead I decided to cut down my golf driving net and use that to drape the plastic over. 

These poles are 10 foot lengths of EMT conduit so cutting them down to the desired length wasn't too difficult.  Sadly if I ever want to setup the driving net again I'll need some couplings or new legs.

As you can see I have used this plastic before as a drop cloth for a previous painting project.  I wouldn’t recommend doing that since plastic tends to get dirty after it has gotten wet.  It took a total of two plastic sheets to cover the entire booth and worked out quite well.

To finish up I pulled the plastic taunt and wrapped the excess under the metal frame.  I then used hand clamps to keep the plastic from moving around and configured an opening in the plastic so I could get parts in and out and also open it up to vent out the fumes.

There are several things I may have done differently.  For instance it might have been beneficial to use new plastic sheeting considering that the old paint tended to flake off but, that wasn’t anything a shopvac couldn’t fix.  It also would have been nice to setup a particle filter system that will vent the paint booth.  It seems that I could get about one color coat down before the fumes got dense enough to be bothersome.  Having active airflow would reduce that considerably but also raises the chance that airborne dirt could get sucked into the paint booth.

Once everything was setup I configured my booth with a single table and used the crossbar that normally holds the archery net to hang some of the parts from.