Home Fundamentals with Home Repair Lab
Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Venue: Main Library – Conference Room #3214, Durham
Price: Free
Category: Community
<p><span style="font-size:14px;">Join Chris and Mindy Meyers from <a href="https://www.homerepairlab.com/">Home Repair Lab</a> to learn about home fundamentals! This lecture-focused class will help you understand how your home operates, give you knowledge to interact with service providers, and be your own advocate. Relevant for homeowners, first time home buyers, and renters. The first hour will be lecture, followed by Q&A. </span></p> <p><em><span style="font-size:14px;">More detailed class description:</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;">Home Fundamentals helps you understand the systems that provide comfort and safety in a home, structural, plumbing and electrical. You'll learn technique, terminology and materials used to build each system. </span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:14px;">Structural explores foundations, framing, roofs, structural load, drywall and lots more. </span></li> <li><span style="font-size:14px;">Pluming examines rural water/waste vs. city water/waste as well as the materials and fixtures that supply water and remove waste from the home. </span></li> <li><span style="font-size:14px;">Electrical sheds light on how power is brought to and distributed throughout a home, from panels and sub-panels to circuits, breakers, receptacles and appliances.