Intensive 'Ready for Anything' Wall and Floor Tiling

10 day course

Our courses are unique in that we provide study notes each day so you are in the right frame of mind for the following day’s tasks. This will enable us to cover such an extensive amount of knowledge in a short space of time. It doesn’t take the place of tutored learning but it is always there as a reference after the course.Please feel free to book a visit and have a look around the centre and chat to students already on the course!!

The course will be conducted as if you were involved in a tiler’s working day going through all the stages of conducting everyday projects.

By the end of the 10 Day  Course, you will have covered the following:-

• Health and Safety (tool safety and lifting technique)
• Surface Preparation (priming, PVA, ply boarding)
• Correct Adhesives and Grouts for differing situations
• Setting out (wall and floor, kitchen, bathroom)
• Tiling on uneven walls
• Tiling techniques
• Use of tile trims
• Use of all Tiling tools and tilers FULL tool kit explained
• Differing tile types and characteristics. (Ceramic, Porcelain)
• All aspects of cutting and drilling (pipe holes, curves, toilet wastes, plugs, door ways, bath sides and shower pipes)
• Silicone sealing and removal
• Tricks of the trade throughout the course
• Full Measuring and In-Depth Quoting based on your full size kitchens and bathrooms.
• Marketing Techniques
• Business cards, logo design and how to advertise
• Insurance, CIS scheme and CSCS cards
• Business Start Up

1st Monday Starting with health and safety and then moving on to preparing surfaces and setting out of kitchens. Tiling the kitchen and grouting before the day is finished.

1st Tuesday Polishing off the previous days work and silicone sealing to complete the kitchen. Setting out and tiling to windows and tiling down to the floor on a large area.

1st Wednesday Finish off previous days tiling and then talks on adhesive and grouts for different situations. Tools and tool kits explained. Battening of a room including preparation and setting out. Start tiling your bathroom.

1st Thursday Complete tiling the bathroom ensuring cuts to the bath, bath ends and shower pipes are appropriate for customer inspection. Drilling holes in tiles. Full measuring and quoting, preparing quotes for customers -->

1st Friday Preparing, setting out and tiling of floors. Question sheet hand in time and answering of any further questions. Completion of hand out folders and finish with certificate presentation.

2nd week

Monday

Tiling the kitchen but with diamond splashback going up to funnel. Tiling with diamond inserts either side and also tiling the kitchen funnels unlike the previous week. Grout the kitchen ready to silicone and polish on Tuesday

Tuesday

Setting out with windows and full windows. Tile around a window inside and out. Finish and grout. Moving on to mosaics and mosaic technique’s. Tile a mosaic area, finish and grout with a washboy.

Wednesday & Thursday

Wet rooms, tanking, plunge cutting, and naturals including cutting and sealing. Tile a large area within the bathroom and introduce a feature within the room. Diamond drilling around waste and supply pipes including 4’’soil pipe drilling.

Friday

Tiling in the bathroom on the actual floor (1st week is tiling on a purpose made board). Installing under-floor heating then tiling on it. Any final questions answered. Certificate presentation.

Note: Various short lectures take place at the appropriate times throughout the course explaining the task the student is about to undertake plus all tiling tools, adhesives and grouts and what to use for different situations accompanied with the next task hand out to place in the students folder. During the day and after each day, students are asked if they have any questions or like to re-try or spend more time on a certain area.