Illinois Paint Mixing Rooms: Ventilation That Runs All Winter
A paint mixing room's exhaust runs continuously, including through every Illinois winter night. That means the replacement air has to be heated too, or the room becomes too cold for coatings and the plant pays for heat leaking toward it. Double D Mechanical installs and services mixing rooms with ventilation and heating planned together.
Discuss your installationContinuous Ventilation in Cold Weather
Unlike a booth, which exhausts only when painting, a mixing room exhausts all the time. In winter that steady exhaust pulls cold air in somewhere.
- Supply heated replacement air to the room
- Keep coatings above their minimum storage temperatures
- Avoid pulling cold air through the plant toward the room
- Size exhaust and supply to the room volume and use
Coatings for Trailer and Truck Production
Trailer manufacturing, like the Hyundai Translead plants in Will County, consumes large coating volumes. Suppliers and finishers serving that market mix coatings in rooms sized for their volume, sometimes with pumps feeding the booth.
Layout and Safety Features
Shelving, mixing equipment, scales and waste containers need room for safe work. Spill containment at the floor, fire protection and suitable electrical equipment are standard. We install the room and its ventilation and coordinate with electrical and fire protection contractors.
Planning a booth or oven project in Illinois
Crews mobilize from Houston; Illinois is roughly 950 miles away, so equipment, panels and tooling are staged and shipped ahead of the install crew.
Manufacturing in Illinois is concentrated around Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and Champaign. The sectors most likely to be specifying spray booths, blast rooms, powder systems and cure ovens there include heavy equipment and machinery, food processing, metal fabrication, and transportation equipment.
Cold winters mean make-up air heaters are sized for sub-freezing intake, and booth or oven placement has to account for frost lines, snow loads on roof penetrations and winter slab work.
Frequently asked questions
Why does the mixing room need heated air?
Continuous exhaust brings in outside air. In winter it must be heated to keep the room and coatings at workable temperatures.
Can the mixing room share the booth's exhaust fan?
Mixing rooms usually have their own continuously running exhaust, independent of the booth.
What size mixing room do we need?
It depends on how much coating you store and mix, the equipment inside and how many people work in it.
Do you service mixing room fans?
Yes. We service exhaust fans, supply air units and controls.