Home Confidence 1: Understanding Home Plumbing

The stuff you need to know about your Home’s Plumbing

1/2 Day Workshop
Price: £80

Book TWO Half-Day Courses at the same time and get 15% off 

About this Workshop

Master your home’s plumbing in one practical Half-day session

Learn the ins and outs of Home Plumbing  at home in a fun and informative way.

Transform your relationship with your home’s plumbing. No more panic, no more uncertainty, no more unnecessary emergency call-outs. This hands-on workshop gives you the knowledge and confidence to handle common plumbing situations and know exactly when you need professional help.

What will you learn?

  • How your home's plumbing system works (explained clearly!)
  • Common problems and how to fix them
  • Essential maintenance to prevent disasters
  • When to DIY and when to call a professional
  • How to talk confidently with traders

Perfect for.....

  • Homeowners wanting to save money
  • Anyone tired of feeling clueless about plumbing
  • Those looking to prevent costly emergencies
  • People wanting to feel more confident about their home

Learn the Lingo; even if you’re not the one doing the plumbing, at least you’ll be able to chat with a plumber without feeling like you’re speaking a different language. This way, you can make sure you get the results you need when plumbing work is done in your home.

This a thoroughly hands-on DIY workshop, which will teach you good practice and explain how plumbing works. You won’t even get wet!

You will get to use plumbing tools and fittings, so that you feel confident to deal with issues at home.

We recommend that you complete this course before you attend any of our other DIY Plumbing workshops. You will gain the essential DIY plumbing skills on this course. These will ensure that you get the most out of our other DIY plumbing courses. 

As with all our workshops, we want you to leave our DIY Plumbing Course with greater understanding and bags of DIY confidence.

If you want to find out a bit more about what we cover in the Plumbing Confidence Course, watch the video below. (My first attempt, so please be gentle). There are subtitles if you need them

All of our DIY Courses are  taught be female tutors at our DIY Workshop in Brislington Village, Bristol.

What we provide

We provide all materials, tools etc. However, if you want to bring along your own tools, ongoing projects etc. then feel free to do so.

We also have hot drinks - tea, coffee etc. Feel free to bring your own additional refreshments, if you want to.

What should you bring?

We recommend wearing old clothing, and sturdy shoes. In the colder months, we suggest that these are warm, or layered. It can get cold in the Workshop.

If you would like to bring your own PPE (Personal Protectve Equipment), please feel free to do so. We will provide PPE, but we know that some people would prefer to use their own. (We recommend that you mark them up with your names, so that you can identify them)

What next?

We see our Plumbing Confidence Workshop as our entry-level DIY plumbing course.

You will gai essential DIY Plumbing knowledge and skills. This will give you the confidence  to go on to any of our other Plumbing DIY courses. You will no longer feel like a DIY Beginner.

Our  More Plumbing Skills – Taps, Traps & Wastes course, directly follows on from this course. You will learn to deal with the eternal Bristol issue of dripping taps. Its not as difficult as you might think.

We are confident that you will go home with new DIY confidence. You will no longer feel like a DIY Beginner, and will be raring to get on with some DIY tasks at home.

If you don’t believe us, check out what our previous customers say….

Other Half Day Courses

Upcoming Dates

If none of the dates for this workshop work for you, please contact us to let us know. We may be able to run more workshops on dates that suit you better

What our customers say

Find bePractical DIY Workshop

Access to the the bePractical DIY Workshop is via the front door, in the  Brislington Hill parade of shops. Head towards St Peter's Hospice Shop, and you will see  bePractical DIY Workshop just on the left.
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There is free parking to the rear of our DIY workshop, accessed from Glenarm Walk.

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Getting to bePractical DIY Courses by Public Transport
by Bus

X39/39 - Bristol Bus Station  to Bath City Centre (via Temple Meads)
96  -  Hengrove Park to Brislington Sq/West Town Lidl
178 -  Bristol to Radstock
349 - Bristol Bus Station to Keynsham (via Temple Meads)
435 -  Bristol to Keynsham
514 -  Brislington
668 - Bristol to Peasedown St John
A4 -    Airdecker (Bristol Airport to Bath)

Voi

Can be taken to Brislington Hill