Handy Woman Master Series is an intensive deep dive into house repair and renovation with the intention of getting women home owners ready to tackle major home repairs by themselves or with minimal assistance.
Due to the intensive nature and the rate at which this course will be moving, students must have previously taken Intro to Carpentry or Woodworking for Women.
This course meets the last weekend of every month for 6 months beginning in May and completes in October. See below for course format and expanded description. Cost of the course includes 12 classes, all materials and consumables. Classes run 10-4pm Saturday & Sunday (only Saturday’s date shows in the drop down menu however Sunday is included)
THE CURRICULUM
Floor construction, installing different types of flooring and repairing/replacing flooring. This will encompass all types of flooring from wood to tile.
Drywall hanging, finishing and repairs.
Framing, including layout, identifying bearing walls and repairs.
Interior trim and details.
Siding- types, installing and repairs
Plumbing and electrical
Framing, prep and installation of doors and windows
Tiling walls and showers
LAST WEEK
Students will bring in their first major project to the group, there the group will help come up with 1) diagnosis 2) tools needed 3 ) action steps to completion 4) potential pitfalls and solutions
From MHW Founder Heather:
I was inspired to create a Handy Woman Master Series looking around my own sad and sore Farm House. It needs A LOT of work. And while I’m capable of woodworking, I’m not confident in diagnosing and completing major repairs. Wade, my husband and MHW co-founder is capable, but as a professional Shipwright, he spends 3-6 months away. Our house requires both of us working at a certain level of competency to fix the worst of it and get ahead ahead of major repairs- and I’m not at that level.
And regardless of all that above – I don’t like it when I want to do something, but I don’t know how to do it. I have been looking at my kitchen floor for the past two years with a mad desire to tear up the crappy plywood. I think there’s a good layer underneath it, but I’m not sure. And what to do if not? What if I expose a rotting floor joist? What if I tear into the cellar floor?
And lets take Wade entirely out of the equation. Lets pretend I don’t have an incredibly Handy Husband who can and does, when push comes to shove, get me out of a bind. If I owned this house by myself, I would be facing major problems – I’d be way in over-my-head. That makes me very uncomfortable and so I decided to do something about it.
Reaching out and discussing this idea with Aaron our Carpentry Instructor we came up with a curriculum plan designed to get Women to the point of diagnosing and tackling major home repairs by themselves or with minimal help.
**I’m going to sidebar here I say “minimal help” as built into every Women Focused class is the idea of Peer Support; It is my sincere hope that through this course in particular that you will be building a Network of Handy Women – your ***Broad Squad – who you can call to come and help you with your home project.
***Broad Squad (definition according to Heather, as coined by her close group of women in Los Angeles) a group of tough, awesome, wonderful capable women who when called upon run from all directions to help reason out problems, offer strength & hope and are reminiscent of the no-bullshit-women Heather grew up watching on TV in the 70’s who wore fabulous pantsuits, kicked bad guys, saved other women, and carried .38 specials in their pocket-books, had feathered hair, and wore red lipstick
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