Class Spotlight: Plumbing! Part of our Knowing Your Home Series

Class Spotlight! Plumbing w/ Dave Cooke. Next class is Wednesday, June 12th, 2024.

Tired of calling a plumber every time your faucet leaks or your toilet won’t stop running? Learn how to fix it yourself in our Plumbing class! In this class, we will look at faucets and toilets as systems with various parts performing different critical roles. We will dismantle and discuss the inner workings of various types of faucets, sinks, and toilets and develop a set of questions for quickly analyzing and identifying the real problem.

First time homeowner or considering purchasing your first house? This plumbing class is a part of our “Knowing Your Home” series, so make sure to check out all of the classes in this series, designed to help you demystify the innerworkings of your house and move confidently into home ownership. Best of all, now through the end of May get 15% off when you buy class packs of $200 or more! It’s perfect if you’re looking to take a couple of our Knowing Your Home classes.

Tools You Can Borrow: Spring Edition!

We’ve got the lawn & garden tools you need for your spring projects!

Spring has sprung and now is the time to dig out those garden beds, aerate soil, power wash your deck, design your dream landscape, and start mowing lawn. We’ve got all the small tools, big tools, corded and battery powered tools you could need to get your lawn, garden and patio in tip-top shape all for just $150/year!

Some of the lawn & garden tools we have: mowers, trimmers, clippers, whackers, edgers, blowers, pruners, cultivators, weeders, loppers, seed spreaders, shovels, rakes, sledge hammers, picks, axes, hoes, post-hole diggers, and more (search our inventory here).

And we don’t just offer the tools you need for lawn and garden maintenance; we also offer a Permaculture class to help kickstart your outdoor projects. Check it out and learn how to turn your landscape into a productive and low-maintenance oasis.

15% Off Spring Class Packs. Gift It or Keep It.

Spring class pack Sale: 15% off Class BUCKS until the end of May 2024

From now until May 31st, 2024 get 15% off of DTL Class Bucks when you buy $200 or more! Buy Class Bucks now, take DTL classes later (Class Bucks don’t expire). Create your own custom discount class packs for yourself or a gift.

How do I make my own custom discount class pack?

  1. Go to our DTL Class Bucks Page and add to your cart however many Bucks you want to buy for yourself or a friend. If you want to buy a certain set of classes, just total the amount the classes are worth and buy that much in DTL Class Bucks.

  2. On checkout, use the code CLASSPACKSPRING2024 and you’ll get a 15% discount as long as it’s $200 or more.

DISCOUNT CLASS PACK IDEAS to gift or keep

The Woodworker’s Pack

  • Woodworking I: Shop Safety Certification

  • Woodworking II: Practical Joinery

  • Woodworking III: Box Joinery

  • Normally $275, Now $234

The Woodturner’s Pack

  • Woodturning I: Lathes, Spindles & Vases

  • Woodturning II: Bowl Turning

  • Woodturning III: Lidded Boxes

  • Normally $595, Now $506

The Welder’s Pack

  • Welding I: Essentials, Safety & MIG

  • Welding II: Practice, Projects & TIG

  • Normally $225, Now $191

The Contractor’s Pack

  • Knowing Your Home

  • Tiling

  • Electricity

  • Plumbing

  • Drywall

  • Normally $475, Now $404

The Sewer’s Pack

  • Sewing I: Sewing Machine Basics

  • Sewing II: Hemming & Alterations

  • Sewing III: Patching & Mending

  • Normally $225, Now $191

Remember: These are just some ideas for class packs. As long as you buy over $200 in class gift bucks, you will get the 15% discount. Code expires May 31st, 2024.

Show Us Your Projects! $5 Bribe

We have so many amazing members who come in and tell us about what they’re working on, and now we want you to prove it! From kitchen remodels, to yard projects, ugly birdhouses, mending clothing and changing out your alternator - we want your pics! (and/or videos?!).

We are so serious about wanting to see your repairs, projects and creations, that we will pay you to show us. That’s right! Fill out our Member Project Form and receive $5 DTL bucks.

Our members are so awesome and talented and we really just want to brag about you all on the internet! And hey, you never know who you might inspire with sharing your project success or failure.

Financial Assistance is Officially Open!

Thanks to our Share the Tools Fund donors, we are officially able to open our new and improved v2.0 Financial Assistance Program! The roughly twenty individuals and organizations who have applied for financial assistance this past month will get access to tools so they can keep their homes safe and mission-driven community projects successful.

Having trouble affording a Tool Library Membership, Classes, or Open Shop Hours? Apply for Financial Assistance.

Have some money to spare and want to help people and organizations access our programs? Donate to the Share the Tools Fund.

Last Chance! Donations Matched at First Friday Teacher's Market

From now until this Friday, May 3rd during our First Friday Teacher’s Handmade Market, it is the last chance to get your Share the Tools Fund donation matched!

What’s the Share the Tools Fund?

People need tools to keep their homes comfortable, functional, and safe. Organizations need tools for community workdays, facility upkeep, and other mission-driven activities. The Share the Tools Fund gets tools in the hands of those people & organizations who need them most.

Many many thanks to everyone who has donated so far! We're already a third of the way to our goal of $10,000 this year. Your donations go directly to…

  • Increasing the availability of financial assistance for individuals & organizations dollar for dollar

  • Adding new, high-demand tools for you to borrow

  • Repairing and maintaining our 5,000+ available public-use tools

  • Taking care of our staff so they can take care of our community

Thank You!

May 3rd First Friday Teacher Craft Fair!

We’ve got another First Friday Teacher Market happening on May 3rd from 6p - 9p! Stop by the Denver Tool Library during the Santa Fe Art Walk to peruse some of our instructor’s for sale handmade goods. There will also be by-donation drinks and TBA tunes. All donations will go to our Share the Tools Fund to give underrepresented maskers scholarships to all of our programs.

Hope to see y’all there!!