Did you know that Heritage Montreal offers Home renovation courses?
If you are a home owner- the handy type, or if you always wanted to get basic information on home maintenance, these courses are right up your alley.
You can learn about home maintenance, renovation and restoration from professionals in the field.
- How to plan your own renovation projects, find the proper resources.
- Home Inspection: How to look at a house and understand its problems.
- Understand foundation problems, their causes and solutions.
- Discover how heating, ventilation, plumbing and electrical systems work.
- How to look after the maintenance and renovation of exterior walls and roofs.
- Insulation, main dynamics and the solutions to common problems.
And we are not talking about contractors involved; the courses are actually taught by architects and engineers.
Interested?
What’s great about it
You are eligible to take the course regardless of your property’s age and architectural style. Considering the fact that Heritage Montreal promotes architectural and historical sites, it’s good to know that even if your property falls into “newer construction” category, you can still learn from the pros.
Here is the list of the seven different courses available:
- General Home Inspection
- Renovation Planning and Administration
- Foundation and Structure
- Exterior walls, Roofs and Insulation
- Mechanical and Electrical system of a House
- Doors, Windows and Exterior Woodwork
- Montreal Residential Architecture through History
The courses are in French BUT they are also available in English every Wednesday from March 26 to May 7, at Dawson College.
The deadline is approaching. If you want to enroll, you need to move fast! For more information visit their website: HeritageMontreal.org
Here is the link to the registration sheet (PDF format)
Posted by: Deya Bautista - Real Estate Broker working as part of the McGill Immobilier team. Specializing in high end condos in downtown and Old Montreal. For buying or selling contact Deya at: 514.917.7889 
Now this is something completely different, I have never thought of doing something like this courses in home renovation, but I suppose that it does make a lot of sense and could become a career for man as they will know the ins and outs of doing home renovation. Nice post.
This is something all people that are looking into going into renovating should think about doing, and I think it will just build up ones confidence and one can even make a career from it as you would have the qualifications
This is something to look into if one would like to do something on the side for extra cash, or even as a hobby, nice post
Home renovation is sometimes very expensive but it is worth the expense to beautify your home.
when we do our home renovation, we always look for new home styles and designs on the internet for some great ideas ,~;