Adding a Paint Mixing Room to an Existing Wisconsin Paint Line
Many Wisconsin fabricators and heavy equipment shops started painting with coatings mixed on a bench near the booth. As volume grows, a dedicated mixing room becomes worth adding. Fitting one into an existing paint area means finding the right spot and connecting it to ventilation, power and heat without disrupting production.
Discuss your installationFinding the Spot
The room should sit close to the booth, with an exterior wall or roof access for exhaust and space for storage. Existing walls or a corner of the paint area often work.
- Close to the booth
- Exterior wall or roof access
- Space for storage and mixing stations
Keeping Coatings Warm
Coatings stored cold become thick and hard to mix. Heated replacement air keeps the room at a workable temperature. Heating must work with continuous ventilation.
Connecting Utilities
The room needs exhaust, replacement air, electrical suited to the vapor environment and fire protection. Coordinating those connections with production schedules limits downtime.
Installing Without Shutting Down
Mixing rooms can often be built and connected while the booth keeps running. Final connections and testing are scheduled during planned downtime.
Planning a booth or oven project in Wisconsin
Crews mobilize from Houston; Wisconsin is roughly 1,000 miles away, so equipment, panels and tooling are staged and shipped ahead of the install crew.
Manufacturing in Wisconsin is concentrated around Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, and Appleton. The sectors most likely to be specifying spray booths, blast rooms, powder systems and cure ovens there include heavy machinery and engines, paper products, food processing equipment, and metal fabrication.
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
Where should a mixing room go?
Close to the booth with exterior access for exhaust and room for storage.
Why heat the mixing room?
Cold coatings become thick and hard to mix.
Can we keep painting during installation?
Usually. Final connections are scheduled during planned downtime.
What utilities does the room need?
Exhaust, replacement air, suitable electrical and fire protection.