That’s why I’m taking you today in what is called a repair cafe…in good French, a “repair café”. A place where you come to repair a broken down object. It can be installed in a permanent place like that of Abbeville in the Somme which is in the Maison pour tous of the commune and which offers a workshop every last Saturday of the month. to fix things.
A newcomer to Occitania
This is the Repair Café de la Vaunage, the association operates in the area between Marguerite and Nîmes in the Gard. For their last workshop a vacuum cleaner, a coffee machine, a soda stream or a fan were repaired..
These are volunteers who help people who come to repair with four hands, free of charge and save money as well as a very useful gesture for the environment!
Far from the after-sales service of a store
For example, in the repair café in Montpellier, which is open twice a month, you come with your defective object and settle down in front of a handyman volunteer who will look with you at what might be going on. Often it’s easy to fix, sometimes you’ll have to buy a spare part, but each time you actively participate…
Hundreds of repair cafes in France
We are talking about 350 associations dedicated to the repair of everyday objects. There is a real dynamic in France around this idea from the Netherlands. And you don’t only find them in the big cities. There is one in Chabris in Indre, another in Mauzé sur le Mignon in Deux-Sèvres, it welcomes you every 3rd Saturday of the month between school and the socio-cultural center…I could go on like this for a long time…but good news there is an up-to-date map of the repair cafés.
A high repair rate
It’s generally very high…the repair café in Montpellier, for example, speaks of 60% of successful repairs, and in 30% of cases the breakdown is identified, you just have to buy the part…90% therefore!
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