Texas Booth Fire Suppression Coordination for Paint and Blast Facilities

What Recent Texas Projects Show

Public records list booth work at UUDS America in Irving, a booth replacement at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, a new booth at Anchias Fleet Care and a booth renovation at All Pro Auto Reconditioning in Houston, and blast and paint booths for STI Group in McAllen. New and renovated booths like these commonly bring suppression into the project scope. At the far end of the scale, the IAC widebody aircraft paint hangar in Amarillo represents suppression planning across an entire hangar.

Local Review and the McKinney Packet

Texas jurisdictions handle booth review in their own ways. The City of McKinney, for example, publishes a spray booth permit packet, which shows how some cities organize the documentation they expect for a booth. Suppression details are commonly part of that review. We coordinate booth drawings, interlock descriptions and layout information with your fire protection contractor and whoever prepares the submittal.

Shutdown Sequence Design

Suppression ties into several booth systems, and every connection has to be verified at startup.

• Spray equipment stops when the system trips
• Exhaust and supply fans respond as the design specifies
• Gas valves to AMU and cure burners close
• Alarm signal reaches the building or monitoring system
• Booth cannot restart until the system is serviced and reset

Training Booths and Fleet Shops

School programs and fleet shops often run booths with many different operators. Clear signage at manual pull stations, simple reset procedures and good housekeeping habits matter as much as the hardware. When we set those booths, we place pull stations and controls where students and technicians can find them without hunting.