who has taught themselves to do panel n paint..

**Gaddy** · 28-09-2014, 05:28 PM

An old thread that suits my question.
I'm looking at buying a property that is zoned light industrial, and was previously set up as a purpose built panel and paint business.
Suits us as it has a 5 bedroom house out front and the workshop out the back with where we can store and restore our cars.
So getting to the point!
It has a fully operational enclosed spray booth with extraction system under floor water filter system ( if that's what it's called). So my question is do you need to have the booth inspected on a regular basis if it's only used occasionally for personal hobbies??
Also, what would it cost to run per hour roughly??

Thanks in advance.

Gaddy

**RAEME** · 28-09-2014, 07:37 PM

Buy it buy it... That is awesome!! good score!!

**playwme** · 28-09-2014, 08:44 PM

I never saw an inspector in the 3 years working in a panel shop.
As for the running costs, they go up when you have the burners on. Most of the time you only do that when you're trying to pump jobs through the booth fast. Nothing wrong with painting a job and leaving it overnight to cure. The painter at our shop used to do all our personal stuff on a Friday arvo or Saturday and then we'd come in early on Monday and help him unmask and get it out of the booth before start time.