What to Expect as a Repair Café Participant
The first-ever Repair Café Pittsburgh is just a few days away! We’re so excited for community members to bring in their items. Read below to learn the ins and outs of participating in this repair event.
What to Expect
The Repair Café is taking place in Construction Junction’s community room. We’ll have signage leading visitors back into that space.
You’ll check in with our sign-in table and either take a seat in the waiting area, or go directly to a repair table. There, a repair expert will guide you to repair the item you brought in.
Depending on the repair you need, you might be able to buy specialized materials or hardware in Construction Junction or next door at the Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse.
Advice
Register in advance if you can! This helps us plan what materials to bring and the number of repair experts to sign up.
Only attempt to repair items that you are willing to potentially break. So leave your priceless family heirloom and brand-new Macbook that’s still under warranty to the professionals.
If you want to replace a screen or battery, you need to buy a kit from iFixIt and bring it to a Repair Café. We will not have these parts available onsite.
Repair Café house rules
Below are the international Repair Café’s house rules:
The work carried out in the Repair Café is performed free of charge on a voluntary basis by the repair experts at hand.
Visitors carry out the repairs themselves whenever possible, but repair experts on site can help if necessary.
The fact that the repairs are being performed by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of liability. Neither the organisers of the Repair Café nor the repair experts are liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions concerning repairs, for the loss of items handed over for repair, for indirect or consequential loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from work performed in the Repair Café. The limitations set forth in these house rules shall not apply to claims declared justified on the basis of liability arising by virtue of applicable consumer protection legislation which cannot be lawfully superseded.
A voluntary donation is greatly appreciated.
Any use of new materials such as leads, plugs, fuses, ready-made kneebends or applications will be paid for separately.
Visitors offering broken items for repair do so at their own risk.
Experts making repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs carried out with their help and are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Repair Café turn out not to work properly at home.
Repair experts are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects.
Repair experts are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances that cannot be repaired.
Visitors to Repair Café are solely responsible for the tidy removal of broken objects that could not be repaired.
To cut down on unnecessary waiting times during busy periods, a maximum of ONE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join the back of the queue if there is a second item for repair.