For Participants

Repair Cafés are free community events for repairing things together. When you arrive, you’ll find tools, materials, and people with repair skills in a variety of fields. Bring your broken items from home to be repaired! These events are made possible by people volunteering their time and talents to help people fix (and learn to fix) their stuff.  If you have nothing that needs repairing you can still stop by and enjoy a coffee or snack, watch the repairs in action, or gather inspiration from books about repairs and DIY at our reading table. 

What gets repaired at each café depends on which fixers come. Please check with the organizers of the café you plan to attend for a specific list. 

What to Expect at a Repair Café 

Number of Items
  • If we are busy today, we reserve the right to limit the number of items we fix for each person to one.
  • If we do not limit the number of items per person, we will address multiple items one at a time. If there is a waiting line after your first item has been addressed, you will need to return to the end of the line for each successive item.
Carry In, Carry Out
  • Fixers are not obligated to reassemble disassembled appliances that cannot be repaired
  • Visitors are solely responsible for the careful removal of broken objects that could not be repaired
No Guarantees
  • Visitors offering broken items for repair do so at their own risk.
  • Fixers offering repairs offer no guarantee for the repair and are not liable if objects that are repaired do not work properly at home.
  • Fixperts have the right to refuse to repair certain objects.
  • Repairs performed here are carried out free of charge by volunteers. Neither event organizers nor volunteer fixers are liable for any loss that may result from advice or repair instructions, the loss of items handed over for repairs, indirect or consequential loss, or for any other kind of loss resulting from work performed during the event.
Pay Attention: Learn Something!
  • We encourage you to learn and observe as much as you can from whomever works on your project. We hope that handiness is contagious and that more people want to start fixing things!