N95 masks and heavy duty resporators are very useful for painting your skoolie

[1964 Carpenter]

Lowe's and Home Depot are good places to shop at to get a painting respirator or an N95 mask. they are very useful as they can keep all the fumes away from you for when you get out your air brush painting equipment.

[Booyah45828]

If you're going to be painting, you should use an R95 or P95 rated mask. They're for oily particles, like paints and solvents, whereas an n95 is not.

[Danjo]

If you’re painting get a respirator with cartridges for organic vapor. Use them within the time as documented by the manufacturer then chuck it. Always store between uses in a sealed ziploc with all the air squeezed out. I just used mine one and chucked it. It’s good insurance that it’s been used within it’s effective lifespan.

[Truthseeker4449]

But can you actually find them in stores again yet? Last time I needed respirators every hardware store was cleaned out of everything. Tool trucks are starting carrying them, or probably whatever they found on amazon, but charging $40 a piece.

Wonder what health complications I'm going to have down the road because I couldn't have proper PPE to grind or remove mold.

[EastCoastCB]

They were $35 at my Lowes before the pandemic. I'd pop $40 for a respirator right bloody now.

[Ronnie]

Originally Posted by Danjo

If you’re painting get a respirator with cartridges for organic vapor. Use them within the time as documented by the manufacturer then chuck it. Always store between uses in a sealed ziploc with all the air squeezed out. I just used mine one and chucked it. It’s good insurance that it’s been used within it’s effective lifespan.

Yes when it comes to paint this is true, and what I have for painting.


The n95 are just dust masks, fine for sanding and that sort of thing, not for paint fumes.