About HomeStarsHomeStars Helps Promote Restores to help Habitat for Humanity
Recently HomeStars partnered with Habitat for Humanity’s Toronto chapter. If you don’t know who this organization is, you should. They build housing for low income families, recruiting volunteers to assist. They recently finished a project called WomenBuild where a crew of all women builders worked to build a number of new homes.
One of the other projects they run is the Habitat University Class. In exchange for volunteering at one of their sites they will give you a one day course which includes
- A high level overview of how to build a house
- Tool identification and use
- Familiarization with lumber, drywall and other basic building materials
- Safe tool operation
- Plenty of hands on experience using the various tools and equipment
Additionally they offer further advanced courses with more detailed specifics. That’s just great knowledge for any homeowner, let alone a Habitat for Humanity Volunteer!
So we thought it was a great fit for HomeStars.
Habitat Toronto is funded in large part by 3 Habitat for Humanity Restores: one in Etobicoke, one in the east end, and one in what I call reno-town on Caledonia Road. If you’re looking for unique used home renovation supplies they are really worth looking into. I’ve found some great doors and windows there, including beautiful antiques and they even have entire kitchen cabinet sets. The inventory is always changing, so stop by often and take a peek at what they have.
If you’re doing your own renovation and you have things that are ‘gently used’, rather than use one of our many disposal services you can take them to the Restore for a full tax receipt on their value.
We’ve enhanced their listings on the site to make them more visible, and encourage everyone who has been there to write a review on the service you received while you were there!
We’re excited to be working with them. Keep an eye out for more collaborations with the organization, both in Toronto as well as their other chapters. We’ve got plans and ideas we’re working on and will let you know as they develop.
Posted by BrianS