Ventilation 4 new shop, any suggestions or tips?Built

[Wild n West]

   Built a new shop a few years ago, wondering if anyone has some ideas on how 2 ventilate the paint and mounting room. My thoughts are something like a elephant trunk that hangs from ceiling or high on wall you could direct or swing over work area. Can you buy something like this? Could you attach a large hose to a wall fan to get  the desired effect? (taxidermist compromise)
    THANKS IF U CAN HELP

[George Roof]

www.unitedstatesplastic.com

They sell complete venting systems.  In retrospect, I should have had the foresight to build a spray room into my shop but I'm a taxidermist and dumber than a chunk.

I'd suggest the overhead hoods with a big squirrel cage motor to vent all the fumes out.  I know a guy who installed a "whole house" attic fan in the wall along with the louvered slats.  When he turns that sucker on, you feel all the air in the room being pulled outside.  This is in a separate room as it would be one cold sucker in the winter around here and as soon as you turned it on, what heat you had would be sucked outside.

[CHT]

I seen where a guy used a kitchen range hood for a ventilation system

[Becky P]

I'd get one that's sparkless or spark proof, whatever it's called, I wouldn't want to blow up from the vapors igniting it.

[John C]

I had a shop in an old cafe once, the range hood commercial grade was breat, except in the winter, that SOB would pull all the heat out in about 3 minutes and in Kansas in Nov thru April it took two 150,000 btu fish cookers to keep any heat when painting fish.

for most cases 300 Cubic per minute will do it.

[danstax]

If you spray laquer you will want one that the fumes don't pass through the motor so there is no chance of explosion.....I have one and it was originally for a woodworking application to vent the dust outside.

[Craig W]

I bought a small thing they call a paint booth, made by Paache.If you do a search on ebay,there is usually a bunch of them on there.
It does a pretty good job of pulling things out for me.

[Matt]

I just put a commercial grade exaust fan when I built my shop. It is located directly overhead of my paint area. If you are standing under it, it will take your hat off on high. I rarely use it on high, low works well enough.

[Kevin M.]

WINDOWS

[Matt]

I personally wouldn't be just opening windows to vent, especially if you are trying to paint and the humidity is 90% outside!(LOL)

[Wild n West]

Thanks everyone 4 the input.  I went with a 1hp dust collector that mounts to the wall. I cut a 4 inch hole in wall installed a dryer vent, atatched flex hose from output to vent, and from input the 4 inch flex hose is ajustable and supported from above. Total cost $270, works great. Had qoute  from cutom ventilation $900 to $1200.