Feel like you have been buying too much stuff in the run-up to Christmas or New Year holidays? Visit the Ealing Library of Things website. This allows you to rent useful household items from your local high street, including: carpet cleaners, drills, hedge trimmers, sewing machines, wall paper strippers, ladders, strimmers, saws, DIY toolkits, tile cutters, planers and jigsaws, and even things for a party (projectors, speakers and PA system, games console, ice cream maker!). All of the items are insured and inspected weekly. They also offering gift vouchers for friends and family. Plus a Christmas discount.
The nearest Library of Things is located in the Ealing Broadway shopping centre on the ground floor, next to Tescos, and under the Central Library which is on the first floor.
Library of Things Gift Vouchers
Perfect for budding DIY-ers, makers, adventurers and last-minute gifters, give a Library of Things gift card. With a gift voucher, your recipient can hire everything. Items from pressure washers to waffle makers are available to hire. This gift card avoids the stress linked with buying new stuff, such buying unnecessary items and reduces packaging waste.
Practical, thoughtful, and waste-free, Library of Things gift vouchers are perfect for Christmas gifting, as well as birthdays, house warming gifts and special occasions.
Library of Things Gift vouchers
Christmas Holiday Discount
This Christmas you can save even more with Ealing Library of Things over the festive period.
Rent from Tuesday 23 December any DIY, cleaning or hosting before the holidays and enjoy 11 days for the price of 1.5 days. Then return it when it reopens on Friday 2 January. The reduced holiday rate is automatically applied at the checkout.
Check out what you can borrow at:
Library of Things across London
There are 20 other Library of Things across London, and more than 45 items are available for hire. In West London other locations include Hammersmith, North Kensington and Twickenham.
By renting items instead of buying them you can save money, prevent unwanted items from going the tip when not needed, and save on embedded carbon – that’s the carbon dioxide produced when making new products that we buy for example.
How does the Library of Things Ealing work?
Borrowing is simple. It works in a similar way to a book library, and within a few clicks you could be on your way home with one of 30+ items available to hire.
- Join and reserve: Browse the Ealing Library of Things items. Set up an account. Make a reservation for the item and set up payment to borrow.
- Borrow and return it: Collect your Thing from the lockers in Ealing Broadway by logging into the terminal at the lockers. Use it. Then return it to the lockers when you’re done and check it back in using the locker.
- Track your impact: See how much waste you’ve saved from landfill by borrowing instead of buying.
The Library of Things is not just for Ealing residents, it’s for everyone! For more information about this initiative and sign up to our ActForEaling the newsletter. For other actions you can do, look at our 10 steps for a greener Ealing
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