HOME MAINTENANCE & REPAIR TRAINING PROGRAM
The Home Maintenance and Repair Training Program is a collaboration with The Margert Community Corporation, a community based nonprofit located in Far Rockaway, Queens. The eight-week program provides hands-on training designed to teach homeowners how to maintain and repair their homes.
Attendees take the classes to save money by doing home repairs themselves., or to become knowledgeable so that when they negotiate with a contractor, they will understand what they are doing. Graduates tell us they feel an enormous sense of accomplishment and confidence gained from learning, then doing home improvements on their own. Many said they had tried to do the repairs on their own but were not successful until they learned the proper techniques from the class.
The Margert Community Corporation is located at 325 Beach 37th Street in the Arverne community of Far Rockaway. Classes are held in The Margert Community Corporation’s free-standing gymnasium courtesy of the St. Mary’s and St. Gertrude’s Parish. Classes are conducted from September through April of each year. Each class consists of eight weekly sessions of three hours each.
Participants learn:
- How to do home improvements and repairs,
- How home improvements and repairs are properly done, i.e., what the desirable outcome should be.
- How to work with a contractor while doing some of the work themselves.
The Curriculum is as follows:
Week 1: Tools Basics and Introduction to Energy Efficiency
Week 2: Hanging Objects on Walls and Ceilings
Week 3: Molding Installation
Week 4: Plumbing
Week 5: Electricity
Week 6: Drywall
Week 7: Painting
Week 8: Wall Papering; Graduation
Schedule for 2009 – 2010:
Session #1: September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, and 28. In progress.
Graduation 10/28.
Session #2: November 4, 11,18, 25, December 2, 9, 16 and 23.
Graduation 12/23.
Session #3: Begins mid-January 2010.
Session #4: Begins late March 2010.
To register for a class, please contact Margert Community Corp at
http://www.margert.org/education.htm
or call Julissa Arias at 718-471-3724. There is no charge for the program.