About

This class has been postponed until March. New dates will be posted soon.

In this installment in BARN's Home Repair series, you will learn how to use basic measuring and marking tools for a variety of home projects. You will learn when a carpenter's pencil is useful and when it's not; the purpose of that wobbly end on a tape measure; how to read and deal with all those squiggly lines between the inch marks; how to use a combination square and a level; and when the best measuring device is just one or two straight sticks.

Moving beyond the basics, you will also learn how to measure and mark pieces that you want to fit inside spaces that aren't simple rectangles. This comes in handy if you want to add a shelf between two walls (they are almost never perfectly parallel) or cut flooring or shelf paper to fit in awkwardly shaped spaces.

Details:

• Open to beginners.
  
• You can sign up for each Home Repair class or just the ones that interest you or suit your schedule. It is not necessary to take the classes in any particular order.
  
• A $10 materials fee, to cover shop supplies and materials for the class, will be added to the class fee when you register and pay.

Denise put herself through college by running her own remodeling business in Chicago in the 1970s.  While working a full-time job, she worked with Seattle Habitat for Humanity for several years as part of the volunteer crew, then on the electrical team, and finally as head of the speaker’s bureau.  Denise has gutted, remodeled, completely rewired, insulated, drywalled and finished two of her previous homes in the Seattle area.  She is currently a BARN woodshop monitor and is happily designing and building new cabinetry for the home she shares with her husband, Dave, on Bainbridge Island.

Jeanne studied in the preservation carpentry program at North Bennet Street School in Boston and worked briefly as a carpenter before working as a writer and editor for woodworking and home improvement publications. She writes a weekly column on home repair for the Washington Post.

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Short-sleeve or tight-cuff tops and close-toe comfortable shoes are required. No jewelry other than "button-type" earrings for women is allowed, so no rings, bracelets, necklaces. Long hair must be tied back.