"Airing Out My Junk - Paint Fumes, That Is!" Topic

Mid March here in the Great Lakes across from Detroit and hovering between 28 fahrenhiet at night to anywhere up to forty and sometimes even fifty fahrenheit at best, so still too cold to go prime and mass spray in the garage.

So, like my teenage years, newspaper over the laundry machine and spray away. Excepting of course, it sis the end of winter and I need to open the windows to stop from getting high off the propellant smells.

So, in the last year I changed out the old rusted shut iron frame, plate glass basement windows, with modern multi layer sliding ones.

Now I can vent out my basement easily and don't get high on the propellants from the spray cans any more.

Of course typing this away wearing gloves and watching snow flakes blow across my keyboard might raise other issues.

Reminds me a bit of the glue fumes of my youth.

I wasn't sure what to expect from the title…

Same here. I read that and thought 'sounds like a personal problem.' :)

I live to the West of you Troopwo (Wisconsin) and have the same issues sometimes.

I'm out in Colorado, but two kilometers above sea level, so I also have problems. I watch the weather and try to prime or seal on the warmest day of the week. My garage is apparently warmer than troopwo's, since I leave the light on all the time, and the keep the garage door closed as the engine blocks cool down after use. Other expedients have been tried when I am particularly desperate, including spraying in the basement bathroom with the fan going, and taking figures out to Kansas on my quarterly trips, spraying them there, and driving back to Colorado with them airing on the shelf behind the back seat as I roar down I-70 with windows open a bit.

Grelber
Who was also a bit wary of this thread!

We have had summer and winter this week in St. Louis. Normal springtime. I am awaiting nicer weather for spray priming figs. I quit doing then indoors many years ago. I might brush-on prime of few of the figs that should be arriving from Foundry soon.

Get your minds out of the gutter already.
I am talking about minis,,,figures that is, for all of those that have been ruined by the internet.

Wow, I think the fumes may have gotten to some of you guys worse than they did to me.

Happy fume free, Priming and Painting to all.

Well, I do prime in my basement.

Funny I can't edit the original post or title to add, "Fumes That Is".

Maybe that would have helped?

I wonder if there is a time limit for being able to edit?

Taken care of

If you've got paint fumes in your junk you're doing something seriously wrong.

I can't tolerate aerosol propellant anymore, so I have to spray in my basement whist holding my breath and beat feet as quickly as possible.

I used to love the fumes from the Imrie Risley brush primer. Good times,…good times.

I use brush on primer. I'm in Michigan.

Normally, i spray prime and spray paint in the garage for exactly that reason. Too cold for another month or so and I really want to get on with some projects that have wated for too many years.

I live in tropical Southern Minnesota. I built myself a paint booth, out of foamcore: TMP Link. I have no windows in my painting area of the basement, otherwise I would have piped the fumes outside, through said window.

I have a cold air inlet pipe, through the foundation wall, up high. I plan to explore cutting an additional hole into the wall, to vent a 4-inch pipe out, for my painting hood, as the activated charcoal filter is not working as well as I had hoped it would.

I plan to install a $12 USD, one-way duct vent valve, near the top of the vent, to keep cold air from flowing back into the basement, in Winter. I previously installed one of these in my fresh air inlet pipe, for the furnace and water heater, to stop cold Winter air from gushing into the basement, chilling it, unnecessarily -- works superbly. CO Detectors have never gone off since installing it, so plenty of fresh air is still coming into the house, as needed. Cheers!

When we bought this house (Wisconsin) the first thing I did was cut a vent hole in the siding and ran it to my spraybooth. Never had a problem spraying any time of the year.

Sgt Slag – I should look into that valve. Right now I just throw a 2" piece of pink foam cut for my spraybooth to keep the cold out.

I live in Maine, aka Arctic Circle. I have a spray booth, the the temps in my cellar never seem to break 65 F during the winter even with the pellet stove. Hopefully by next winter I'll have done some insulating and general tightening up so the air temp will be adequate to spray. My cellar has sliding windows, so the booth will vent easily and I can disconnect and close the window in a snap.

I looked at the exterior wall of my crafting room, yesterday: there is a Radon Gas Removal System with a pipe going through the upper part of that same wall -- it goes through a hole cut into the wooden siding, above the concrete blocks. I plan to cut my own hole, and put a 4-inch pipe through it, sealing it like the others. I'll install a one-way valve in the pipe, near the top, to allow fumes to blow out of it, year round. My issues are resolvable! Cheers!