Bring your broken items from home to Sustainable Westerville and Otterbein University’s Repair Café on Saturday, Oct. 11, at The Point at Otterbein.

The Repair Café will run from 9 a.m. until noon Oct. 11 at The Point. Together with our volunteer “experts,” make (or start making) repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.

Our “experts” will work with you to determine if your item is repairable. If it is, the “expert” and you can work together to fix it. We are highly encouraging this to be a “hands on” experience. We realize this might not always be possible. You do not have to be a Westerville resident to come to the Repair Café.

Please bring in no more than 2 repairable or potentially repairable items.
Please come in prior to 11:30am to ensure time for evaluation/repairs.

If you know or suspect the item needs a specific replacement part such as a new cord, switch, a patch, a button, etc., please bring it with you. We will not have access to purchase items, though Roush Hardware is right up the road at 609 S. State St.

Please know that this is a “walk in” process, so there may be multiple people being assisted by the “expert” at the same time. This is not a drop-off and pick-up later event. Please have a seat at the table where the “expert” and other “customers” are working. Get to know some of your Westerville neighbors!

We cannot guarantee that your item can be fixed, in some instances the “expert” will guide you to the information you need finishing fixing it at home. In some instances, it just isn’t fixable. If it is e-waste, then you may be able to leave it behind at the Electronic Recycling event outside of The Point.