Intensive Joinery

Joinery John Harding has spent all his life in the trade and owns a highly successful building company. He now provides instruction to bring on the next generation of joiners and will take you from being a complete beginner or having rudimentary woodworking skills to being able to undertake the most complex tasks with ease.  From marking, measuring and cutting to hanging doors and fixing architraves, you will learn how to construct a timber-framed room from start to finish.  Along the way, you will learn about selecting the right timber for the job, which fixings to use and all the other skills to be an excellent joiner. Course members include people who want to undertake their own DIY project or who are wishing to develop a career in carpentry. You will learn how to choose the most suitable wood for each specific job and to handle tools such as planes, chisels and cutters used by the trade.

Objectives

• Preparation, measuring, cutting and fixing both sheet and stock materials.
• Use of power and hand tools.
• Construction of framing and studwork.
• Undertaking installation of "second fix" materials such as skirting boards and architraves

The course is tutored by an experienced joinery contractor who will ensure that participants graduate with all the necessary skills to undertake complex carpentry tasks, whether at home or on site, to industry-accepted standards.