Truck paint booth
A tractor unit, a rigid truck, an articulated bus: three lengths, three booths. The size is chosen to fit the vehicle, not the catalogue.
A truck booth is not just an enlarged car booth. What changes is not only the length: it’s the volume of air to be handled, and therefore the whole sizing of the ventilation and heating.
That’s also what explains the price gap with a body shop booth. You’re not paying for extra metres of wall — you’re paying for an installation that has to renew and heat three to five times more air, without the airflow weakening at one end.
Five sizes, and custom-built at the same price
All our booths are custom-designed. The sizes below are simply the most requested dimensions: they serve as a reference and make it possible to give a starting price, which no truly one-off booth would allow.
Custom-built carries no extra cost for being custom-built. A 13.40 m booth costs what a 13.40 m booth costs — not the next size up in the catalogue.
Evolutive 10 — 10 × 5 × 4 m
large vans and machines. From €79,900 excl. VAT
Evolutive 12 — 12 × 5 × 5 m
tractor units and trucks. From €99,900 excl. VAT
Evolutive 15 — 15 × 5 × 5 m
trucks and large machines. From €119,000 excl. VAT
Evolutive 18 — 18 × 5 × 5 m
articulated buses. From €149,000 excl. VAT
Evolutive 20 — 20 × 7 × 6 m
price on request
Custom-built
up to 60 m long, 25 m wide and 12 m high, adapted to the constraints of the building. Price on request
The five sizes, to the same scale
Five lines in a catalogue don’t tell you much. Seeing them side by side does.
Which size for which vehicle
The rule is simple: take the overall length of your largest vehicle, and add the room to walk around it. It’s that second part people forget, and it’s what makes the difference between a usable booth and a booth where you keep bumping into things.
A tractor unit on its own fits in 12 m. A tractor-trailer combination doesn’t — and the real question then becomes whether you handle them coupled or separately. That changes the size, and therefore the price, considerably.
Large vans and panel vans
the Evolutive 10 is enough, and it also handles machines
Tractor units and rigid trucks
the Evolutive 12 covers most of the fleet
Long trucks, plant and large machines
the Evolutive 15
Coaches and articulated buses
the Evolutive 18, which is also the size for long combinations
Beyond that
custom-built, with no extra design cost
What’s included, and what isn’t
Only two items remain price on request, and for a reason: nobody can price them without having visited.
A displayed price that hides the installation isn’t a price, it’s a deposit. On a booth this size, installation isn’t a detail at the end of the job: it ties up a team for several days.
Travel costs are added, depending on the distance.
Included in the displayed price
the booth, delivery, and installation by our teams. You don’t receive pallets to sort out yourself
Price on request, after a survey
the duct that discharges the air outside, and any floor work. Two items that depend entirely on your building
Financing
lease with purchase option available, with no mandatory down payment, based on your last two balance sheets. We state the capital amount; the finance provider states the monthly payment
What it costs to run
Everyone asks about the purchase price. What really decides is what comes afterwards — and with a large volume, the gap widens quickly.
A booth lasts more than twenty years if it is maintained. Over a period like that, the difference in purchase price between two models often ends up weighing less than the difference in consumption between them.
Heating
this is the big cost item, by far. While you’re painting, the booth discharges all the air outside: so it is constantly heating air drawn in from outside. The burner only runs at full power while it brings the booth up to temperature; after that, it modulates
When drying, the booth acts as an oven
part of the air is recirculated instead of being thrown away. You’re no longer heating the street, the vehicle comes out sooner and the booth is free again
Heat recovery
if you run cycle after cycle all week, it pays for itself: more expensive to buy, cheaper every month. We’ll tell you frankly whether your throughput justifies it
Maintenance
it depends on your hours of use, not the calendar. We price it on your actual use rather than selling you a package that doesn’t match anything
A booth that grows with your business
The Evolutive range lives up to its name: what sets an entry-level model apart from a top-of-the-range model isn’t the structure, it’s the control system. A push-button panel on one side, electronic control on the other.
So a booth can be installed at the basic level and upgraded later, without being replaced. The upgrade takes about one day on site — not a new project.
Where the air goes
What you’re buying isn’t a box: it’s clean air coming down. Here’s the route it takes.
Comparing two quotes without getting caught out
Every manufacturer quotes an airflow. The figure looks comparable. It almost never is — and with a large volume, the difference costs more than anywhere else.
Three questions to ask, the same ones to everybody. If a salesperson dodges any of the three, you’ll know why.
The full calculation, with the value required by the standard and the step-by-step working, is set out plainly in the question ‘What airflow is needed?’ in the FAQ, further down. Enough to check any quote, including ours.
‘What floor area is this airflow calculated on?’
empty booth or vehicle inside, it’s not the same figure. Some offers look cheaper simply because they count a smaller area
‘Is that the fan’s airflow, or the one I’ll actually get?’
with filters that are starting to clog, the second one drops. That’s the one that matters to you
‘And in the corners?’
an 18 m booth can show a good average and deliver too little air at one end. The longer the booth, the more the question matters
Filters, and why your finish depends on them
Three barriers between the dust and your vehicle. The one in the ceiling is the only one that shows on the result.
Any filter class on the market can be installed, by adjusting the motor pressure. If your customer demands better than the standard, say so when we price the job: it is planned at the design stage, not afterwards.
At the air intake
stops the coarse dust before it wears out the fine filter. It’s the cheapest of the three, and it protects the other two
In the ceiling
this is the one that decides your finish. When it reaches the end of its life, it shows on the vehicle before it shows on a gauge. Don’t wait for that
In the floor
catches the paint mist before it goes into the duct. It saves you clogging up the fan and the extraction
Will it fit in your workshop?
Four things decide, and none of them can be guessed from an office. We always come and measure before pricing.
The dimensions given above are internal. You need to add the thickness of the structure and room to move around it: take them as a minimum, not as the final footprint.
Your clear height under the trusses
there needs to be room above the booth for the air handling equipment. On a large size, it’s almost always the hard constraint, ahead of the floor area, which can be reorganised
Where the air goes out
how far do you have to go to discharge it outside? That route is the item nobody can price without having visited
Your floor
either we dig a pit, or we set the booth on a raised floor and you have a small step at the entrance. The second option avoids any concrete work
Your electricity supply
you need three-phase power. If you don’t have it, it has to be planned for, and it’s better to know straight away
And if no size fits
we build one to measure, up to 60 m long. A good share of our 360 installations are not catalogue models. A difficult building is no reason to give up
Frequently asked questions
What we are asked before committing to a truck booth.
How much does a truck paint booth cost?
From €99,900 excl. VAT for the Evolutive 12 (12 × 5 × 5 m), the size that covers most of the tractor unit and rigid truck fleet. Below that, the Evolutive 10 starts at €79,900 excl. VAT but is aimed more at large vans. Above that, allow €119,000 excl. VAT for 15 m and €149,000 excl. VAT for 18 m. These amounts are starting prices: equipment and building constraints make them vary.
Does custom-built cost more?
No. All our booths are custom-designed; the catalogue sizes are simply the most requested dimensions. A 13.40 m booth is priced as a 13.40 m booth — you don’t pay for the next size up, and there’s no extra charge for the design study.
What airflow is needed for a truck paint booth?
It’s calculated, not negotiated. The NF EN 16985 standard requires an average air velocity of 0.30 m/s, and never less than 0.25 m/s at any given point. You multiply the floor area by this velocity, then by 3,600. For an Evolutive 12 of 12 × 5 m, i.e. 60 m²: 60 × 0.30 × 3,600 = 64,800 m³/h. An Evolutive 18 of 18 × 5 m needs about 97,000, and an Evolutive 20 of 20 × 7 m about 151,000. The trap, when you compare two offers, is that each one may use a different reference area: ask the question.
What size of booth do I need for a tractor-trailer combination?
It depends on how you work. If you handle the combination coupled, you need the overall length plus room to move around it, which quickly takes you beyond 18 m. If you uncouple, an Evolutive 12 or 15 is enough and saves you a whole size. That’s the first decision to make, even before talking about budget.
Can it be installed in an existing building?
It’s the most common case. The clear height under the trusses is almost always the hard constraint, ahead of the floor area, which can be reorganised. So the building survey comes before any pricing: it determines what is possible in your building, and sometimes it leads to revising the layout rather than the size.
How long will my workshop be out of action?
Allow 5 to 10 working days of installation. A large booth tends to be at the top of that range. The survey makes it possible to give a firm duration before starting, rather than an estimate revised during the job.
What is the delivery time?
Two to three weeks if the components are in stock, three to four months otherwise. Large sizes are more often in the second case, since they are built to your dimensions.
Can I start with basic controls and upgrade later?
Yes, that’s the principle of the Evolutive range. The structure doesn’t change; only the control system evolves, from a push-button panel to electronic control. The upgrade takes about one day on site.
What is your largest vehicle?
Its overall length, the clear height under the trusses in your workshop, and whether you handle combinations coupled or uncoupled. With these three pieces of information, we know which size suits you — and which one would cost you a lot for nothing.
