Frequently Asked Questions

We offer hands-on courses in general diy skills, plumbing skills, general maintenance skills, and carpentry skills. Our goal is to build your confidence and practical abilities in these areas.

We run Half-Day courses, as well as shorter Bitesize Courses (2 hours long). 

Our DIY Clubs are a bit less structured than the DIY Courses. Each session last for 2 hours over a 4-week term.

We cover lots of essential DIY skills, but we respond to what your needs. We like to start each DIY Club session with a show and tell session. You bring your DIY questions and DIY successes so that we can talk about them.

The DIY Clubs are very relaxed and fun. We have lots of laughs and try out lots of DIY skills and ideas.

Yes we do.

We run several DIY Clubs in the evening.

We alos run some of DIY Carpentry with Confidence courses in the evening, and occasionally some of Bitesize DIY Courses.

Yes we do.

We run several of our Half-Day DIY Courses on Saturdays. Check out our Weekend DIY Courses pages for up to date information.

At the moment we don’t teach tiling skills, but we have plans to add a tiling course at the beginning of 2025. 

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We have tried to keep our pricing structure as simple as possible.

Our Bitesize Courses (2-hours long) all cost £40

Our Half-Day courses currently cost £70. (The price will be going up to £80 from the beginning of January 2025)

Our DIY Carpentry Courses run over 2 x 3 hour sessions, and currently cost £100 for the full course.

Our DIY Clubs, which run over a 4-week term, cost £95 for the full term.

DIY Assist is our in-home project help and teaching service. We come to your home (within a 20-mile radius of Bristol) to assist with your DIY projects, providing hands-on guidance and instruction.

You learn DIY Skills at the same time as getting your DIY jobs list completed.  

The principle behind DIY Assist is your empowerment. We want you to feel confident when carrying out DIY tasks at home. With DIY assist we come to your home and support you while you do the tasks.

We can offer advice, sugggestions, tell you about all the mistakes we have made, so that you don’t have to repeat them. We have tools, knowledge, experience – just what you need.

If you check out our DIY Assist page, we have a menu of options for you, from a short online consultation, through to a full-day hands-on DIY Assist Session.

If you complete the DIY Assist Enquiry Form on the page, giving us as much information about your project, we can get back to you with ideas about how we can best support you on your projects.

Please give us as much information as you can about your project, it really helps us help you. Photos are even better

There are links to all our DIY courses on the website, including all Upcoming DIY Courses. We use an external Booking Agent, called Bookwhen,  to take all our bookings and payments for us.

If you can’t find the DIY course that you’re looking for, just pop over to the Bookwhen site where you will find all out upcoming DIY courses  and DIY Clubs listed.

We ask for full payment for all our courses at the time of booking. You can either pay by credit card or Gift Voucher through our Booking System, or , if you prefer, we can send you an invoice so that you can pay by Bank Transfer, or, if you prefer, by cash. 

Yes, we offer gift vouchers for all our DIY courses and DIY Assist Services. They make great presents for DIY enthusiasts or anyone looking to learn new practical skills. You can buy them on our Booking Site. 

If you need to cancel your course booking., please get in touch with us straightaway. If you cancel more than 14 days before the start date of your course you are entitled to receive a refund of your fee less a 10% administration charge.

If you would like to transfer your booking to a different date, instead, we will do our best to arrange this for you

If you cancel your booking within 14 days of the start date of your course you won’t be  entitled to receive a refund of your fee, however, we will do our best to transfer your booking to a different course date, if you would like that, subject to availability.

Just to talk to us, and we’ll do our best to make sure that you don’t miss out.

Our full Booking Terms & Conditions can be found here.

Absolutely! Safety is our top priority. All our courses include comprehensive safety instructions, and we provide necessary protective equipment. Our instructors are fully qualified and experienced in maintaining a `safe learning environment.

We’re based in Bristol. Our wrkshops is located at 33 Brislington Hill, Bristol BS4 5BE.

There is lots of free parking behind the workshop, and there are multiple transport options available to reach us.

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We’d love you to bring some enthusiasm, but otherwise, you really don’t need to bring anything.

We provide all the tools  & materials tyou need. If you would like to bring your own tools, to practise with them, or your own PPE, please do. Just make sure that they are marked up clearly, so that we don’t get them mixed up. 

We recommend that you wear old clothes and “sensible” shoes; the sort of thing that you would wear if you are starting a DIY project at home.

If you have long hair, we recommend that you keep it tied up while you are on a course, to keep yourself safe.