near Toulouse, at Café Bricol’ we help you repair your household appliances against waste.
Have them repaired rather than throwing them away and buying new, since 2017 in Ramonville (Haute-Garonne), once a month, the Bricol’ café offers residents the opportunity to bring their small broken down households and get help to repair them and this for free.
“Whether we see the breakdown, we could fix it more easily.“At first glance, the failure is difficult to identify. Over the hair straightener, Nathalie, its owner, and Philippe, a volunteer handyman, are struggling to find a solution. “I am surprised to see the complexity and quality of this objectnotice the latter. Curiously, these are objects that present their price unlike toasters for example.“
Despite her broken accessory, Nathalie does not hide her satisfaction in tinkering alongside Philippe: “I love to learn! I love to discover. But at the electronic level, I don’t know anything. It’s good because I’m learning with Philippe and it’s great. Next time, I think I’ll do it alone.”
Since 2017, at Ramonville (Upper Garonne)the Cafe DIY offer residents the opportunity to bring their broken down small appliances and get help to repair them, free of charge. Here, we eliminate waste.
We learn to repair these objects, thanks to a few tools and goodwill to transmit basic knowledge. “I I didn’t think about planned obsolescence because after two and a half years anyway, I found it short. I hope obsolescence, they program it some more late” Plague Roland. Vacuum cleaner, coffee maker, food processor, speaker… The two levels ofare appliances stand out like new, once passed through the hands of the volunteers.
“On can have a small tester that costs only 10 euros to see where the current passes and where it does not pass. Like this, we can deduce where the problem” to assure Fabien Villard, volunteer handyman at the DIY café.
For Pierre-Marie Vermosenalso a volunteer,we have all heard of dryers and washing machines where there is only a two-euro tank that allows you to do it work again or extend its life.“
Marie is car she knows that “we will have to stop throwing away, spending unnecessarily. Because the planet needs it and our wallets too.” Each device repaired free of charge is carefully weighed and listed. The volume of unthrown object is precisely measured. In 5 years, the initiative has saved more than a ton of small household appliances of all kinds from landfills.