Thread: Paint Booth Heating

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Can anyone point me to a manufacturer of paint booth heating systems? I am wanting to purchase or build one and cant seem to find any info about it. I was thinking of infrared heating...any opinions on that?

A few tips:
Infrared heat transfer works via "line of sight" so you must have
heaters that point to every panel on the car.....a heater on the
driver's side will not heat the passenger side.

You can buy infrared strips at places like Grainger's or McMaster.
If you GOOGLE the term "infrared heaters", several mfgs will be
listed. Note the spelling of infrared for the correct Google response.

mike in tucson

The best deal is to heat the floors as in buried heating coils or hot water. The cold floor in a booth is the most critical area--heat rises.

i would love to do radiant heating, and that is actually going in my addition i am building for my paint booth, but as of right now, i am working with an already poured foundation. as for the infrared heating, i guess what i was trying to say is, how many btu's would be the minimum for an 18 x 26 ft booth? i have found a couple of 60" single bulb infrared heaters that put out 13500btu's a p[iece, but they are 230vac lights....and i would need about 8 of them from my calculations to get the desired heating i think i need.

i pull heat into the booth from the shop. i have a big torpedo heater that i use farm deisel in. my shop is well insulated and even in the 30's i can keep my booth at 75 or better. i put the car in the booth the day before so i can put the small heater at the door to heat up the booth and warm the car.next morning the car will still be good to go. temp in the booth is not the critical part. temp of the metal is.

exactly, which is why i am thinking infrared.....it penetrates instead of heating the air. Virginia Vocational Tech or something or another put an 18 lamp medium wave infrared heating/curing system in there classroom booth and they can paint a car and roll it out in about 2 hours.

ok update, i have decided to go with a quartz tube medium wave infrared heating/curing system, now my problem is calculating how much infrared heat i need without going over board. Because keep in mind, they make infrared paint striping machinces too....lol. i dont think that would be good for the new paint job.....