Home DIY
Event description
Home DIY
Don’t call the experts; empower yourself to undertake your own DIY projects by unlocking the skills and secrets of Home DIY with this hands-on 2-day workshop.
In this workshop you will learn how to safely and economically undertake a number of small maintenance tasks around the home. Whether it’s an unfinished DIY project or if you’re looking to take on some basic, satisfying home-fixes yourself, this course is for you.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this home DIY course, you will have gained the following competencies: general safety when carrying out home DIY; the correct use of drills and drivers; how to choose and use the right drill bits and fixings for a variety of applications; basic concepts of timber-framed wall construction; how to hang a shelf; basic plumbing; and how to install a pane of glass.
Ideal for
This DIY workshop is ideal for:
Anyone wanting to learn the basic safety and practical skills needed for home DIY; and Anyone with DIY ideas for their own home and a need to build on their existing skills.
Course content
Day 1
- • Safety and Housekeeping
- • Work area preparation
- • Introduction to and examination of different materials found in the home (natural, manufactured and hazardous)
- • Basic DIY Toolbox contents and why
- • Introduction to Advanced Tools
- • Introduction to drills and drivers
- • Practice in the use of the basic toolbox items
- • Cutting, drilling, fixing into various materials (woods, masonry and ceramics)
- • Putting it all together (measuring, marking, gluing, fixing, tiling and finishing)
- • Clean-up and disposal of waste
- • Question time (pick your instructor's brain about home projects)
Day 2
- • Putting it all together completion (grouting)
- • Anatomy of a gyprock wall
- • Hidden hazards (power, water, gas)
- • Detecting hidden items (studs, power)
- • Examination of the various anchors available to hang things on walls
- • Patching a damaged (minor and major) gyprock wall
- • Anatomy of the S bend and taps
- • Change a washer/fix a tap
- • Removal/attaching a flexi hose
- • Solutions for working without a workshop
- • Question time (pick your instructor's brain about home projects)
Please bring to class
Any drills or tools from home you would like to use
Please bring the following PPE:
a face mask safety glasses or googles earmuffs or earplugs
Sanitised PPE is available to borrow. Students must sanitise before and after use.
Venue: Parramatta
1/10 Hunter Street Parramatta 2150
Transportation and Parking
The Bower Parramatta is located 750m from the Parramatta train station. The Route 900 / free shuttle bus stops nearby at the corner of Macquarie & O’Connell Street.
There is paid parking directly above The Bower in the Hunter Street (Justice Precinct) car park.
Other information
- ▪ Please don't wear your best clothing or jewellery.
- ▪ Tie back long hair.
- ▪ Wear closed-in shoes. No heels, please.