The purpose of this thread is to get the best method down for painting a car out of your house garage. Weather it be materials, setup, to what time to paint, to what not to use or do..... post up your experiences or ideas.

My bro will be in to post his experience. I know there are others who have painted out of the house or looking to

 

Tip #1. Expect trash in the clear. Alot of it. Seriously.

 

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What steps did you take to prevent trash from being in the air? Did you seal the spraying area off from the outside air? Was the floor cleaned and wet to keep dust and debris down?

 

carport, or if u have a garge LOTs of plastic sealing everything off. wet the floor, do all ur sanding and then you final wax and grease remover BEFORe you pull it into the garage/carport. wipe it over one more time. i would suggest a salomander heater if its not super warm where you are right now. take your time, and be paitient are my 2 best pieces of advice for you tho hybrid. lol

 

Definately wet the floor down to prevent dust from being kicked up. Tack rag like crazy after every coat of base (tack the panels and masking paper). Wash the car well, including the jambs and wear a paint suit.

 

tack rags are great for picking up any dirt and whatever kinda crap that ends up on your paint base coats
but are you saying wipe the whole panel with a tack rag? or just the spots with trash?

 

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but are you saying wipe the whole panel with a tack rag? or just the spots with trash?
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Always tack off the whole panel, even the masking paper.

 

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i tried sweeping and vacuuming the area off. everything was sealed off with visqueen sheeting. i had fans blowing out of the area. wetting the floor. not wetting the floor. didnt matter. if you are lucky, the trashy will be only dust and you can nib sand between coats and then wetsand it out after.

 

I paint every single day in a garage with no booth and the garage door open full all the time. The key is to keep everything clean. Right away take the air and blow off everything. Wait a few min for the **** to settle. Hose the garage out in the am and squeegee all the crap out. Get your car all set up masked off, blow it off, wet the floor if you want. Blow entire car off again, tack entire car and about 6-8ft section of your air hose. Go outside, blow yourself off (or put your suit on...which you really should get, the paper ones cost a whole $8 and save time sanding or picking fuzz out of the clear) then go to town.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by swappedcx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I paint every single day in a garage with no booth and the garage door open full all the time. The key is to keep everything clean. Right away take the air and blow off everything. Wait a few min for the **** to settle. Hose the garage out in the am and squeegee all the crap out. Get your car all set up masked off, blow it off, wet the floor if you want. Blow entire car off again, tack entire car and about 6-8ft section of your air hose. Go outside, blow yourself off (or put your suit on...which you really should get, the paper ones cost a whole $8 and save time sanding or picking fuzz out of the clear) then go to town.</TD></TR></TABLE>

This is pretty much what I did when I sprayed my car in a garage. I didnt go as far as blowing everything out but I did wet the area a little first. I just kept the garage door open and when I sprayed I asked my girlfriend to look to see if there was a cloud of overspray and there wasnt. As long as you are uising an HVLP gun at low settings you wont have hardly any overspray. There was a mirror not even 10 feet away that I wiped of with my glove and there was no paint dust on it at all. It took me 2 weeks to sand, prep, tape, spray, and polish my car all with only $500 in expenses. Garage paint jobs FTW!!

 

to help keep things clean you can also look at buying a clear that cures fast. I use sherwin williams 930 in my booth on some ocasions but it would probably work well in a garage. It's more of a spot clear but you can reduce it just a little extra and put your two coats of clear wet on wet to get it to flow a litte more. but still it can die back a bit more that way. With this clear you can spray your last coat and in about 10-15 minutes the surface will be "dirt free" meaning any dust that settles on it after that time will be very unlikely to stick. Asumming the temp is not to cold.

Also another thing to think about is ventilation, when your clearing you want to have the best ventilation possible to help evaporate the solvent in the clear, this will produce a better gloss that way. Also you want good ventilation even after your done clearing for the same reason, to prevent die back.

 

I painted a 91 beretta in the dirtiest garage you will ever see just through up some plastic, wet the floor and sprayed and it was very clean its not that hard to keep dust out the paint

 

Yep, everything's been covered for the most part. Just take your time (which I know you will) and clean everything religiously to avoid dust and such that will try to get into the clear. Make booth walls out of plastic sheeting, wet the floor, and tack off the car in between coats of color to prevent trash being stuck under the clear.

 

Sprayed the engine bay and I must say the overspray was crazy!! It shot down the garage spraying for my project Small parts are fine to paint in the garage, but damn an entire car. What do you guys do about the overspray?

 

You mean overspray getting on the floor of the garage? Or on the car? If you mask everything off properly you shouldn't be getting any overspray on the car.