Tools · After bikes
The drill in the basement.
The drill in a drawer three streets away. Most tools are used a few hours a year. Borrow one from a neighbor for an afternoon. A photo at handover and a photo at return, confirmed from both phones, are the witness. The deposit is sized to the tool and comes back when the tool does.
A hammer drill two doors down, used twice in two years. A tile cutter. A pressure washer. A sewing machine. The things a street already owns, mostly unused.
Tools have no lock, so the witness is a pair of photographs and two confirmations: one at handover, one at return. The contract treats them the way it treats a lock event on a bike. If the photographs disagree, the tool guild looks at both.
Tools follow bikes. The contracts support them today; the tool guild is constituted when the first owners list.
What is held
A small fee plus a deposit sized to the tool.
The deposit is what a replacement costs, not more. It returns when the owner confirms the return, or on its own after 24 hours.
Four steps
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List
An owner posts the tool, a price per day and a deposit.
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Reserve
Fee and deposit are held.
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Use
A photo at handover, confirmed from both phones. The same at return.
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Settle
Deposit back, fee to the owner. Both sides rate.
When two neighbors disagree
The tool guild decides.
Most rentals close in step four. The few that do not go to the tool guild: a small group of people who know the thing, bonded, voting on the record. The renter has 72 hours to answer, the members vote within 96, and what is held moves as they decide. The platform never decides. How the guild works →
Questions
What if the tool breaks while I use it?
Say so at return, with a photo. Fair wear is not damage, and the tool guild knows the difference. The deposit covers a repair the guild agrees on, not more.
Why a deposit for a forty franc tool?
Because the deposit is the whole arrangement: no insurance, no paperwork, no platform in the middle. It is refunded in full when the tool comes back working.