Help with setting up spray tanning room please?

[Sonya]

I am in the process of setting up a spray tanning room in a salon. Does anyone have any ideas of a cheaper way to start out instead of buying one of the big expensive extractor panel units. We would like to see how well spray tanning does in our salon first. When I sprayed at home I used a retention rod with a shower curtain to catch some of the overspray and towels on the floor. I just wonder if the doesn't look professional enough. Any ideas or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sonya

[Din]

Originally Posted by Sonya

When I sprayed at home I used a retention rod with a shower curtain to catch some of the overspray and towels on the floor. I just wonder if the doesn't look professional enough.

That is probably the most ghetto way of going about it for a business.

Buy the "expensive" extractor overspray units. Very small investment in your business.

Do it right the first time.

Everyone is talking about the Norvell Overspray booth as one of the best out there.

[eyecandytanning]

I have the same one eileen had on here (i think she upgraded recently) def worth the investment. Mine is also portable.

If you need to go cheap, paint the walls a high gloss for easy cleaning and use a fan with a ac filter attached. change filter every couple of sprays and spray down walls and wipe clean.

[Din]

Originally Posted by eyecandytanning

If you need to go cheap, paint the walls a high gloss for easy cleaning and use a fan with a ac filter attached. change filter every couple of sprays and spray down walls and wipe clean.

Sounds like more of a hassle than getting the overspray booth.

[mgj]

Build room to size, drywall as usual, put in 2-3 filter holders used for cold air returns in between studs caulk studs to create a nice air tight "duct". then cover all but the opening in a product called FRP, 1/8 inch plastic used in commercial settings. Put your standard furnace filter in the wall opening to allow air to draft up the duct work. Install the same amount of 300 cfm bathroom fans in the top of your newly created duct. They will draw all the over spray away from you and the sprayee and then duct the fan where you want it to dump, mine dump into the back shop area. Most of the overspray is caught on the filter, they go from blue to brown pretty quickly. Use vinyl tile on the floor, not as slippery.

I believe I posted in a more detailed fashion in the past, but in a nutshell that is a sprayroom, i also mounted the HVLP pump in my shop so I would not have to listen to it while spraying. But I don't spray, only my girls do.

[Din]

Originally Posted by mgj

But I don't spray, only my girls do.

Wife won't let you huh....

If i were to put handheld spray in my salon, i'll fly you out here to build it for me MGJ. I am willing to pay with Canadian Beer.

[mgj]

As long as it is not Molsen Genuine Lager crap they fed for $82 a case the last time up their fishing. LOL Looked like Miller genuine draft, tasted like it came out compton in the 90's in a brown paper bag.

[eyecandytanning]

yep a hassle, but they wanted cheap, not easy

[mgj]

It is not cheap, my room looks like a industrial booth professionally put together. Kathe can attest, while stopping in to say hi, a young girl wanted to get sprayed and I was the only one there. Kathe jumped right in and volunteered to spray her, Again I only get the older sicko's who want the young girls to spray them naked.

Tell you one thing it cleans like a dream, go look at the FRP in Home depot, Nothing and I mean nothing sticks to it, not even sharpies. Now the door and the white trim, that is another story.

[vanztan]

Welded a frame and put panels that are actually designed for a horse stable..tough and impermeable to anything...white and clean. Had a HVAC guy vent me out to the outside...no filters and voila...good to go...booth is large enough for a person 6'4" to have arms outstretched and put track lighting all around.

[mule14]

Black Laminate the walls... wont cost you more than $200, you can then wipe them down with ease. You can get ceiling filters made to size, mine cost me $30 each. Buy your exhaust fans on ebay, any size you want cause your having the filters made. The filters liners need to be changed once a month, costs roughy $2 per sheet to replace. We use black rubber padding for people to stand on in the room, have it made to size...cheap as chips.

[Smiley]

Just get a spray tan pop up tent. There's some nice ones out there.

[DB9276]

You can get sheets of white boards at Home Depot (the dry erase white board). We built a stall inside our spray room with these sheets and it looks and cleans up great. We have a bathroom fan vented at the top.

[addictionsalon]

Norvell has a page on their web site on 'How to build an inexpensive airbrush overspray booth'.