Texas Air Make-Up Units for Booths, Blast Rooms and Coating Lines
Texas finishing operations range from single collision booths to aircraft hangars and shipyard blast facilities, and every one of them exhausts air that has to be replaced. Double D Mechanical installs, replaces and services air make-up units for Texas booths, blast rooms and coating lines.
Discuss your installationAir Demand Behind Texas Finishing Projects
Public records show booth projects at UUDS America in Irving, Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Anchias Fleet Care and All Pro Auto Reconditioning in Houston, STI Group in McAllen and Warren Equipment in Lubbock. Larger projects like the IAC widebody aircraft paint hangar in Amarillo and shipyard work in Port Arthur and Brownsville involve very large air volumes. Every one of those systems needs planned make-up air.
Heating, Filtering and Sometimes Cooling
In Texas, make-up air is not only about heat.
- Heated AMUs for cool mornings and booth cure cycles
- Filtered supply to keep dust out of booths
- Evaporative or other cooling options considered where comfort matters
- Intake placement to avoid hot roof air and exhaust re-entry
Large Volumes for Hangars and Shipyards
Aircraft paint hangars and large marine blast and paint facilities move enormous air volumes. AMUs for those buildings are large, often multiple units, and the duct distribution has to deliver air evenly across a big space. Planning those systems involves structural, gas, electrical and controls coordination from the start.
Keeping Units Ready for Every Season
An AMU that sat idle on the burner side all summer can be the one that refuses to light on the first cold morning of a cure cycle. Preseason checks of ignition, flame safeguard, gas pressure and discharge temperature control catch most of those problems. Year round, filters load faster in dusty yards and near blast operations, and belts and bearings carry the full airflow every shift. We service burners, filters, fans, belts, dampers and controls, and rebalance booths whenever a unit is replaced or a new system is added to the building.
Planning a booth or oven project in Texas
Double D Mechanical is based in Houston, so Texas jobs are home territory.
Manufacturing in Texas is concentrated around Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, and El Paso. The sectors most likely to be specifying spray booths, blast rooms, powder systems and cure ovens there include oil and gas equipment, petrochemical, aerospace and defense, and heavy fabrication and electrical equipment.
Hot, humid summers and mild winters put the emphasis on make-up air cooling or tempering, filter change schedules and keeping intake away from loading doors.
Frequently asked questions
Do Texas booths need heated make-up air?
Many do for cure cycles and cool weather. The coating, booth type and building determine the heating requirement.
Can make-up air be cooled for operators?
Cooling can be added to make-up air in some designs, though cooling large volumes is costly. It is usually weighed against the comfort and coating conditions the shop needs, and intake placement away from hot roof surfaces is a lower-cost first step.
Can you install multiple AMUs for a large hangar?
Yes. Large spaces often use multiple units with coordinated controls.
What happens if make-up air is too low?
Booths underperform, doors are hard to open, combustion appliances may backdraft and dirt enters through gaps.
Local sources
- IEM switchgear expansion, Brooks, Bexar County ($200M, up to 3,000 jobs) · plant
- LITEON AI power infrastructure plant, McKinney ($307M phase 1) · plant
- Hammond Power Solutions transformer plant, Fort Worth ($35.4M) · plant
- General Dynamics 155mm shell plant restart, Mesquite ($200M) · plant
- UUDS America paint booth installation, Irving ($250K) · tabs record
- Tarrant County College paint booth replacement, Fort Worth ($93K) · tabs record
- TMEIC third Houston-area factory, Waller County (UPS / MV drives) · plant
- Electronic Power Design 144k sq ft data-center electrical plant, North Houston · plant
- Constellation Industries pipe fabrication expansion, North Houston · plant
- Anchias Fleet Care new paint booth, Houston ($148K) · tabs record
- All Pro Auto Reconditioning booth renovation, Houston ($400K) · tabs record
- Davie Defense / Gulf Copper shipyard modernization, Port Arthur (up to $1B) · plant
- Saronic Port Alpha autonomous naval shipyard, Brownsville (>$3B) · plant
- STI Group blast and paint booths, McAllen ($750K) · tabs record
- Warren Equipment paint booth conversion, Lubbock ($523K) · tabs record
- IAC widebody aircraft paint hangar, Amarillo · plant
- City of McKinney spray booth permit packet · permit source