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Well folks I am moving again, This time to a house that I will be using the airbrush in the basement and there are no windows. I'm only shooing acrylics so I'm not too worried about fumes. but more buildup and stuff like that.

My thought is that a booth will at least help get the particles out of the air through the filter. and I'm wondering if I cant maybe at a T-joint to the dryer vent and connect into it.

So I come to ya'll hoping for some advice before I spend money that I might not need to.

I spray over sheet of white paper in a spare bedroom. I can't smell anything (except Vallejo primer) and the paper is very clean with little overspray. I think a booth set-up is overkill for acrylics but I do wear a respirator mask when I do a vehicle.

If you really want to do it, a large box with a powerful bathroom fan hooked up to a corregated pipe and a filter made from another box and a furnace filter of some type should help screen out any stray particulate. Estimated cost ....under $75.

 darefsky wrote:
My thought is that a booth will at least help get the particles out of the air through the filter. and I'm wondering if I cant maybe at a T-joint to the dryer vent and connect into it.

I wouldn't use the dryer vent - at least not without a reliable back flow prevention valve on the line. You don't want to have the exhaust from your airbrush blown into your dryer because there is a weed or lint ball on the exterior vent... Besides getting minute particles inside the dryer that can gum things up you will also have air from the dryer blowing into your airbrush booth (with all the related lint). While the filter should catch most of that - it will reduce the flow rate and make you need to replace to filter more often or make the booth pointless.

If all you are spraying are water based paints - you don't need to use a vented booth at all. A lot of them are designed to catch the overspray in a filter (quite often something like an AC filter) and recycle the air back into the room. Provided you don't have any solvents to deal with you can get away with that.

If it is a house that you will own - you can also cut a new hole and insert a dryer vent style fitting easily enough to exhaust outside. If you don't own it - well, that option would likely be right out.

If your really are set on exterior venting and don't have the ability to make modifications like adding a new exhaust vent...then just swap the hoses from the dryer to your airbrush when you use it and swap them back when you are done.

 Sean_OBrien wrote:

 darefsky wrote:
My thought is that a booth will at least help get the particles out of the air through the filter. and I'm wondering if I cant maybe at a T-joint to the dryer vent and connect into it.

I wouldn't use the dryer vent - at least not without a reliable back flow prevention valve on the line. You don't want to have the exhaust from your airbrush blown into your dryer because there is a weed or lint ball on the exterior vent... Besides getting minute particles inside the dryer that can gum things up you will also have air from the dryer blowing into your airbrush booth (with all the related lint). While the filter should catch most of that - it will reduce the flow rate and make you need to replace to filter more often or make the booth pointless.

If all you are spraying are water based paints - you don't need to use a vented booth at all. A lot of them are designed to catch the overspray in a filter (quite often something like an AC filter) and recycle the air back into the room. Provided you don't have any solvents to deal with you can get away with that.

If it is a house that you will own - you can also cut a new hole and insert a dryer vent style fitting easily enough to exhaust outside. If you don't own it - well, that option would likely be right out.

If your really are set on exterior venting and don't have the ability to make modifications like adding a new exhaust vent...then just swap the hoses from the dryer to your airbrush when you use it and swap them back when you are done.

Just renting the house for now, so not gonna cut through a wall. I think a simple spray booth with filter and fan should do the trick.....hopefully.

I was in a very similar situation and purchased this:

http://www.tcpglobal.com/airbrushdepot/itemdetail.aspx?itemno=PAS+HB-16-13

I vented it into the dryer exhaust and it's worked great. You can also get two and combine them which I am consider doing.