This concerns all the tools that we need occasionally and which are not given..…jigsaw, drill, screwdriver, electric plane, pruning saw, glue gun, chainsaw…Each tool is expensive to buy new but above all there is a reality: once purchased, they will be used very little, they will often sleep in a cupboard… A figure comes up regularly: on average, a drill is used for 12 minutes over its entire lifespan.
Hence the interest in borrowing rather than buying.
Many brick and mortar shops in France
You can find them everywhere. Take a look at the bricolib.net site (link on the chronicle page on francebleu.fr).
For example, the Etabli aux Ponts de Cé in Maine et Loire asks you for a membership of 20 euros then you can borrow what you need for free… In addition, the bricothèque provides a large shared workshop to come and tinker like a pro . And if you are not one you can even be accompanied.
A newcomer to Bègles
It’s called La Boucle: it’s open every Saturday morning from 10 am to noon. You can borrow all the tools you need for DIY or gardening free of charge for a week: scraper, laser meter, rake, pruning shears or even a hedge trimmer.
In some cases a sum is requested which makes it possible to operate the association behind it. This is for example the case in Saint-Hilaire de Clisson near Nantes: 5 euros per drill.
We often find the possibility of getting help in brick and mortar shops
In Toulouse, for example, with a tool library that specializes in gardening. There are spades, hand claws and hoes here. And also workshops to progress or discover: sowing, transplanting, seeds…
A final example in Cléon in Seine Maritime with the association Le sillage and a beautiful bricotheque which is also a real place of exchange around DIY.
A good plan for the wallet but also for the environment
Clearly: first in avoid buying a new itemwe are at the heart of this circular economy with brick and mortar libraries: one device is used by hundreds of people. And then by having the repair reflex: we increase the lifespan of objects, which is also important from an ecological and economic point of view! What common sense.
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