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In my ongoing quest to remove barriers to my painting, I’ve recently cottoned on to the existence of water curtain spray booths. It’s like pretty much any spray booth, but the over spray hits, yes you guessed it, a curtain of water, and so is safely exhausted into an internal water tank.

Seems that ultimately saves time, mess, faff and a wee bit of money replacing foam type filters. Should also better deal with Nasty Niffs and Putrid Pongs.

Does anyone have one? Are they any cop?

Is there hobby scale one? I mean we use normal sized one to paint furniture but it's too large to have in hobby room

I'd not heard of hobby scale water curtain spray booths before either, but there appears to be at least one company making them, Hseng.

From what I can tell it seems mildly gimmicky. It still has filters you need to change, so you're not saving any money in that regard, except maybe you're not changing them as often?
I also can't tell if you have to have it connected to a tap or not. If you have to have it "plumbed" then that's a major consideration to take into account. If your hobby space isn't close to your bathroom, laundry or kitchen then it might be more hassle then it's worth to find a way to connect it to a water source. And if it's got an internal reservoir, how long does that last? How often are you filling it up so it can keep providing a curtain?


Also I feel I need to ask, what are you using in your day to day painting that's giving off fumes? I don't see how a water curtain could make that much of a difference in that regard?



Personally, unless there was a very compelling reason to have one, I'd skip it and buy a regular spray booth.

Defo need a new spray booth, so I can undercoat indoors, removing the British Weather from the equation.

What I’m thinking this will do is prevent the same “gritty” build up, as the overspray paint particles are flushed away into a tank, to be tipped down the drain.

Open back door, spray through opening to the incessant rain. The UK is nature’s water curtain spray booth