Repair Cafe: Maintainsplaining (fixing your home)

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Building experts will be on hand to explain what you need to know to maintain your living space: how to safely and sustainably remove stains from your landlord’s surfaces to retain your deposit. How to locate the mains switch, reset a fuse box, how to rewire a plug, unblock your pipes, and stop a tap leaking.

No experience or skill necessary, all welcome!

For the best advice, bring as many photos of your building problem as you can!

Repair Cafe at Institute of Making, 17th February from 10am-4pm

Besides the above activity, we are hosting a range of drop-in repair activities for the UCL community. You can also drop into:

Plant care & repair
Textiles & Clothing repair
If it's broke, don't fix it! (treating a broken item through arts and heritage repair methods)
Office furniture repair (advance booking required)
Electronics Repair (advance booking required)

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