Join us for a Repair Café at the
Charlotte Congregational Church Vestry.
Get your broken stuff ready! Co-hosted with Sustainable Charlotte, the Charlotte Grange and the Charlotte Library will be hosting the next Repair Cafe'. It is open to anyone in any town. Registration is required. Register here to let us know what you are bringing.
Home-baked goods, chili, salad, bread, and drinks will be available for sale.
The fixing is free. We do ask that attendees, if able, bring a food or monetary donation to the Charlotte Food Shelf.
So what exactly is a Repair Cafe'? It's a 4- hour community party of talented local folks that will volunteer their handy skills to repair your broken stuff. Just bring your broken things to the Repair Cafe' and watch and learn as the handy folks do their magic. In addition to fixing, we hope to...
Promote and teach the lost art of repair to all ages
Keep perfectly good stuff out of the landfill
Build our Town's sense of community by working together to meet each other's needs.
In the past we have had repairers fix the following...
Repair lamps–replace switches and cords, tighten wobbly bases
Repair jewelry (no soldering), replace watch batteries, fix watch bands,
Replace eyeglass screws
Repair camping and fishing gear
Repair furniture, cuckoo clocks, dolls, favorite toys (wooden, metal, or plastic)
Troubleshoot and/or repair small appliances, electronics, radios, fans, heaters, (de)humidifiers
Sharpen garden tools, replace wooden handles, repair electric trimmers—5 item limit
Sharpen knives, scissors, axes
Mend clothing by hand or sewing machine; repair holey knits; adjust sewing machines
NOTE- zipper repair policy has changed… we can no longer replace whole zippers because of amount of time required. We can replace worn out or missing slides and stops. We cannot repair zippers with missing teeth or missing boxes or missing pins. Those will require using the services of a seamstress See video here for full explanation of what can and cannot be done at the Repair Cafe…. Zipper Repair 101…
We have even offered the following services...
a 3D Printer and operator on hand for quickly making copies of replacement parts out of plastic
fixers that can make re-usable shopping bags out of your old jeans, favorite skirt, whatever. Or denim skirts and shorts out of your old jeans or other pants
A fixer of old tube stereos
A bike repair dude offering tuning and minor repair of bicycles, truing of bike wheels
A squad of electronic repair folks to tackle more sophisticated electrical and computer issues
There is no charge for our repairer's labor. If your repair requires new part(s) you are responsible for buying those parts beforehand and bringing them.
We do ask that attendees, if able, bring a food or monetary donation to the Charlotte Food Shelf. Home-baked goods, chili and drinks will be for sale.
