Courses

This course prepares professionals and aspiring handypeople with practical skills for residential maintenance, repair, and remodeling. Through hands-on training, participants are introduced to the professional side of carpentry, plumbing, flooring and decking, roofing, drywall, doors and windows, tool selection and use, material estimating, troubleshooting, and jobsite safety. The course also addresses the professional business practices required to operate successfully in the skilled trades. Projects, simulated client interactions, and field-based activities provide participants with opportunities to apply technical and business skills and build the knowledge, confidence, and workplace competencies needed for employment or entrepreneurship in the residential home-improvement industry. Interested students must take the pre-requisite of Home Repair or Carpentry I at Durham Tech. Email smith-overmanm@durhamtech.edu for information on how to demonstrate the competency level required and how to register.