4 Week Professional Tiling Course
Vocational qualification
In Arundel
Description
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Type
Vocational qualification
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Location
Arundel
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Duration
4 Weeks
To learn and develop the skills required to carry out professional standard wall & floor tiling work. Suitable for: Candidates looking to work as a professional wall & floor tiler within the UK construction industry
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Start date
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About this course
There are no pre requirements in order to attend this training course
Reviews
Teachers and trainers (2)
Paul Timmins
Tiling Tutor
Sam Koujan
Head Tiling Tutor
Course programme
Tiling Professional Level 2
200 hours of tuition
Our 4 week professional course has been developed to give you the practical skills and underpinning knowledge to undertake and complete jobs to a high standard for all of your future customers. If you are looking for a new career in wall & floor tiling then this is the course for you.
The 4 week course consists of all of the 8 learning outcomes achieved in our popular 2 week course, plus a host of extra units meaning you can kick start a new career in wall & floor tiling with the confidence of knowing you have received the best possible training available.
Course Content
- Health & Safety induction
- Tools of the trade and their use
- Correct setting out techniques for kitchens and bathrooms
- Grouting / applying silicone sealants / finishing techniques
- Fixing walls tiles using cement based adhesive in straight/brickbond and diagonal patterns
- Indepth business start up training, including registering self-employed / tax & NI liabilities / managing accounts / marketing and quoting for work / how to price work correctly / business banking etc
- Correct cutting and use of moulded plastic angle trims
- Planning and fixing tiles around a window and reveal
- Aplication of tiles to box sections
- Cutting around plug sockets and fused spurs etc
- Setting out a straight laid floor tile pattern
- Setting out a brickbond floor tile pattern
- Setting out a diagonal floor tile pattern
- Planning and cutting around fixed objects i.e. toilets / pedestals / door mouldings etc
- Cutting and fixing tiles to angled walls and floors
- Tutor led discussions on Natural stones
- Tutor led discussions and demonstrations on under tile heating Systems
- Differing techniques including use of angle grinders and specialist tools for creating holes is various tiles tipes
- In depth complex patterns and setting out techniques
- Border tiles / raised listellos / pencil/ dado etc
- Substrate preparation using fast set renders and primers
- Tutor led demostration on floor levelling procedures
- Practical Project: Tiling and entire bathroom from start to finish walls and floors
- Installation of movement matting and uncoupling membranes
- Complex adhesive and grouts
- Cutting and fixing aluminium angle trims
Additional information
Students per class: 7
Contact person: Leanne Whelan
4 Week Professional Tiling Course