Relocating Downdraft and Pit Booths in North Carolina
A crossdraft booth sits on the floor. A downdraft booth often sits over a pit, which makes moving it a concrete project as much as a mechanical one. Double D Mechanical relocates downdraft and pit booths for North Carolina facilities, coordinating the floor work, rigging and air system changes that come with them.
Discuss your installationWhen the Booth Has a Pit
Pit downdraft booths pull air through floor grates into a trench or pit, then out through exhaust duct. Moving one means the new location either needs a new pit or a different way to get air under the workpiece. That decision affects schedule, cost and how parts roll into the booth.
Raised Base Versus a New Pit
A raised basement booth sits on a steel base with its own exhaust plenum, avoiding new concrete work but adding a ramp or lift for loading. A new pit keeps the floor flush but requires saw cutting, excavation and new concrete by the concrete contractor. Both options are compared against the parts, the loading equipment and the schedule.
Rigging Heavy Booth Sections
Downdraft booths have heavy plenums, grates and frames. Moving them inside an active plant takes planning for forklift or crane capacity, travel paths, overhead obstructions and floor loading.
- Weights of plenums, frames and fans
- Travel path clear of overhead lines and racks
- Laydown space near the new location
Excavator Production in Kernersville
The Deere excavator plant in Kernersville shows the scale of heavy equipment manufacturing in North Carolina. Large equipment components often call for downdraft booths, and plants doing that work move or resize them as production grows.
Filling the Old Pit and Restoring the Floor
Once the booth leaves, the old pit has to be cleaned, filled or covered and the floor restored so the space can be reused. Utilities feeding the old location are capped or removed at the same time.
Planning a booth or oven project in North Carolina
Crews mobilize from Houston; North Carolina is roughly 950 miles away, so equipment, panels and tooling are staged and shipped ahead of the install crew.
Manufacturing in North Carolina is concentrated around Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem. The sectors most likely to be specifying spray booths, blast rooms, powder systems and cure ovens there include aerospace, automotive and EV, furniture, and heavy trucks.
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
Can a pit downdraft booth move to a floor without a pit?
Yes, with a raised basement or a different booth configuration. A ramp or lift is usually needed for loading.
Who cuts and pours a new pit?
A concrete contractor does the pit work, coordinated with Double D's booth and duct schedule.
What happens to the old pit?
It is cleaned of residue and filters, then filled or covered so the floor can be reused safely.
Do floor grates and pit filters move with the booth?
Grates often can if they fit the new pit or base. Pit filters are replaced at reassembly.
What should a North Carolina plant provide before planning?
Booth drawings, pit dimensions, the new floor layout, slab information, the loading equipment you use and photos of the pit and plenum.