Brand New Class! Tiling: Knowing Your Home

First Tiling Class: Tuesday, 9.20.22 // 5:30p-8:30p

This is our second class in our Knowing Your Home Series! Stay tuned for plumbing, drywall, painting, and more soon!

Tackling Tile, Porcelain with a Plan! Installing ceramic, porcelain, or glass tile to make a kitchen or bathroom pop. Learn to plan the project, buy what you need, and how to prep before you start mixing the mortar. Learn about substrates, surface prep, transition and border pieces, mastic, spacers, and grout. Learn about the proper tools including levels, and squares, trowels, and wetsaws. There will be time for Q&A at the end of class.

David Cooke grew up as the third generation of a construction family. He taught an eight-week basic home repair class several times each year for twelve years. He also wrote articles on home repair and improvement for a local magazine and appeared weekly on a television program in Boston as the "Resident Home Repair Guy" for two years. David has also run his own home repair and improvement business for most of the last 30 years.

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Donate to the Denver Tool Library AND give a Free Membership!

With Denver housing prices soaring and inflation making everyone's lives more expensive, there are more and more people struggling to make ends meet. Some people rely on our memberships because they can't afford to buy their own tools (let alone hire contractors), and some fantastic local nonprofit organizations use our tools to build gardens, playgrounds, shelters for the homeless, etc. We want them all to have equitable access to tools, whether there's room in their budgets or not!

You can help us further our mission to make tools accessible to all by making a donation today. Your donation will buy a membership for an individual in need or for an organization making a meaningful positive impact in Denver.

Making a contribution to the Denver Tool Library has a metro-wide ripple effect. You're not just helping us get better/nicer/cooler/more tools for you, you're supporting equity and local social projects as well!

  • For a $100 donation you will give a membership to someone who has applied to and has been accepted to our Pro Bono Membership Program, providing no-cost tool access to folks whose income, race, gender, orientation or ability has ever seemed like a barrier to tool access.

  • For a $250 donation you will give a membership to another nonprofit or organization working toward social, environmental, and economic justice through our Rad Orgs Program.

  • Donations of any amount are also very welcome and valuable to the community! Take a look at the drop down menu to see examples of the impact your contribution will have.

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Want to know when new dates or last minute open spots are announced for your favorite class? Want to stay up to date with our upcoming calendar? Want to know when we finally have that tool aerobics class we’ve always talked about? Signup for the Class Newsletter! We promise it’s just an email or two per week.

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Radian Builds Safe Outdoor Space for Individuals Experiences Homelessness

Big thanks to @radian_denver and their many partners for building another Safe Outdoor Space for individuals experiencing homelessness! They use our tools for these super important projects to help provide shelter for people of our community.

BTW - Did you know that when you get a Gold Tool Library Membership you contribute to our Rad Orgs Membership Fund that allows us to support projects like this? When you go to renew, ask for a Gold Membership. That bit of extra money goes toward free/discounted memberships for organizations helping people experiencing homeless, building community gardens, supporting at risk youth, and so much more!

So Many Brand New Classes!

We’ve got even more new classes! Check them out and get learned y’all.

Floating Shelves

In this class you will learn how to make and hang a floating shelf all out of one piece of rustic alder. This functional piece works great as a nightstand in the bedroom, a sunny area for plants in the living room, a display for your favorite glasses in the kitchen, or space for guest towels in the bathroom. Upcoming Dates

Fabric Block Printing

Join Denver based printmaker Lucy Holtsnider for a block printing on fabric workshop! Over the five hour class we’ll practice drawing, carving, and printing linoleum blocks into repeating patterns onto fabric. Upcoming Dates

Intro to Electricity

This class will define electricity, and give it a brief history. Modern residential electricity will be demonstrated with a standard electrical panel and circuit breakers. Your practice will be remodeling a plug into an existing wall, and switching it! Upcoming Dates

Advanced Welding: Practice, Projects, and TIG

Did you take Intro to Welding and want to try out the TIG welder? Do you have a project in mind that you'd like to weld together? Then Advanced Welding is the class for you! Upcoming Dates


We're Hiring! Apply Quick!

We're scheduling interviews now, so don’t lollygag or dilly dally…

Want to work with some super fun people doing super fun stuff that also gives back to the community? Come work for the Denver Tool Library! You don’t need to be a crazy skilled carpenter to work for us - a basic understanding of tools and being a cool person is all that’s required.

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Pro Bono Tool Library Memberships!

Thanks to the Human Together Community Grant from Denver’s Department of Human Services, we are able to offer 40 Free One Year Memberships to folks whose income, race, gender, orientation, or ability has ever been a barrier to tool access.

Applications are due Friday, August 12, 2022. Please click on the yellow button below and fill out the form to apply. A printable version lives HERE if you would like to distribute a couple or if you know someone without internet access who might be interested in applying.

We will reach out shortly after the due date via email or phone to let you know if you’ve been selected for a free membership. If you have questions, please email hello@denvertoollibrary.org. Thanks!

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$5 DTL Bucks for Survey!

Answer some questions that help us with grants as well as where to focus our time and resources. Collectively y'all know better than us how we can improve - and now's your chance to tell us! Also as an added bribe - you'll get some DTL bucks that can be spent on anything in the shop.

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