Do you sandblast in your showroom ?

[philwire]

Hi all,

I don't have a garage yet but I'm at the wishing/awing/lurking stage. We're thinking around 2015 it might be possible (mortgage renewal).

I would like to use my garage to tinker and learn on a restoration project, but that will be really messy and dirty. I'm thinking of doing a 25x31 (max allowed from city code is 775 sqft) and I might try to see if I can do a dark/dirty side for oily and messy work like paint and a light/showroom side for cleaning cars and changing wheels. I cannot build a second garage because city code allows only one garage.

What do guys with nice showroom quality shops do when they need to do real messy work like spray painting or sandblasting? I need ideas

 

[Gary S]

Garage Journal----showroom?

You aren't talking about the same things here.

People with garages do work.
People with showrooms show off.

 

[bad_idea]

My only problem with messy projects is to keep the mess inside the garage. A garage is for working in.

 

[Falcon67]

I put up a hack spray booth, shoot the car, then tear it down. For blasting, I have just a small cabinet. I'd use a shop vac to control the dust in the cabinet and be sure you filter the heck out of it to save the vac - or use cheap vacs. Also wear very good face and breath protection when blasting. So there are ways to control the nasty stuff.

 

[Kevin C]

I like the idea of trying to limit how far my mess travels in the garage. I have been thinking of using heavy clear vinyl curtains to contain the mess I'm making to one area and then use some type of positive ventilation with a filter to vent it out of the shop.


Too much work to clean the whole shop just because I did some dust generating work.

 

[henrysgarage]

When we did the 57 we put up a temp garage and blasted in that, of course we live in the country in a bush lot so no neighbors to complain, OK maybe the odd wolf or coyote or sheep,,,,,. No showroom in our garage(24 X 50) all work space.
That being said I use a lot of cardboard and plastic on the floor and cover stuff when needed to keep paint etc from getting all over.

 

[dirttracker18]

Mine is all one space, 30 x 36. When done working just clean up, sweep up and pick up.

 

[LutzTD]

if you value your tools and your sanity dont media blast inside without some sort of seperation or enclosure and some sort of air movement away from your worksop. For small stuff get a good cabinet, if you need to do big stuff move it outside. A freind of mine blasted the underside of his firebird half in half out but didnt put up a barrier. We threw out a lot of stuff right away but the dust and media get in everything, and I mean everything. I bet If I looked I could still find some of that sand in his rafters 20 years later

 

[NUTTSGT]

I'd spray paint in my garage and I have a blast cabinet but there is no way in hell I would run a sandblaster in my garage. No way, no how, no thanks.

 

[Zeke]

You won't sandblast in the open very many times, so plan on either making a temporary and secure area or doing large stuff outside. In fact, it is really better to have a pro do it. For grinding, sanding and other dirty tasks, it will work if you clean up daily.

I had a wood shop in one half of a 2-car garage with a not quite full height partition between. The laundry was in there too. It wasn't all that bad. I used fans and a dust collection system consisting of a shop vac.

I cleaned analy. Not annually. ****.

 

[-Brent-]

In fact, it is really better to have a pro do it.

After doing one sandblasting job on my own, I now take everything larger than blast-cabinet size to a pro. Not having pro-type equipment made the job more difficult than it had to be and I had **** in my lungs (regardless of the mask) for about a week.

 

[don long]

I'd spray paint in my garage and I have a blast cabinet but there is no way in hell I would run a sandblaster in my garage. No way, no how, no thanks.

Eric
Don't you find painting in the garage almost as dirty as sand blasting
overspray is harder to remove than sand!
I blast outside when I have to and paint well that is another story
not talking about a rattle can job here and thier
that gets done just outside the door

Philwire
go rent a small industrial space and get your projects started

good luck
Don

 

[Real McCoy]

I sandblast outside in the driveway but paint inside. New guns really do a decent job of paint control and very low overspray so it's not as bad as it use to be with making a mess. Hand plastic and use an exhaust fan and a respirator but the floor is going to get messed up if that bothers you.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Eric
Don't you find painting in the garage almost as dirty as sand blasting
overspray is harder to remove than sand!
I blast outside when I have to and paint well that is another story
not talking about a rattle can job here and thier
that gets done just outside the door

good luck
Don

Don, I don't do alot of painting so it's not a problem for me. Usually what I do is just small things, not automotive size stuff. I get enough dust from the wood burner and can't imagine trying to blast inside the garage other than in my blast cabinet.

When I painted my car trailer (16' open) I hung plastic up across the beam to keep overspray down around the bench. I opened the attic door and raised the garage door. Under the garage door were two box fans and a piece of plywood to fill the gap. The plastic did not go all the way across the garage (short about 3') but there was literally nothing in the air behind it. I virtually had no overspray other than the floor around the trailer.