Intensive Professional Tiling

5 Day Intensive Tiling Our 5 day intensive tiling course is recommended for anyone wanting a complete change in career that has no previous experience in the trade, or for those tradesmen looking to develop more skills within the trade.

We run a friendly team here at the Tile Training Centre and students soon feel welcome and at ease with the professionalism and atmosphere of our courses.

We run class sizes of up to 15 students to ensure we can 'fast track' you into the tiling trade. We have purpose built FULL size kitchen and bathroom bays so you can experience tiling a customers full spec job.

Each student works in their own bay with their own tools ensuring you develop skills at your own pace.

Each bay has various obstructions that you would be confronted with in the trade such as radiator pipes, water supply pipes and an offset boxing in.

The 5 day course details are as follows:

Getting Started

· Introduction to TTC
· Employment advice
· Public liability insurance
· Health and safety,
· Obtaining your CSCS cards
· Work wear
· Procedures on site

How To Quote

· How to measure walls and floors
· Laying out your quotation
· How to price a job
· General quoting advice

Tools

· What tools you require for the job
· Cost of tools
· Cleaning and looking after your tools
· Where to purchase your tools

Adhesives

· Selecting the correct adhesive for a specific surface
· Wall and floor adhesives
· Preparing the adhesive
· How much adhesive to use (coverage)

Setting Out

· Bathroom and kitchen walls
· Bathrooms allowing for pipes, toilets and sink units etc
· Large and small floors
· Running through from room-to-room

How to tile

· Floor and wall tiling
· Diamond tiling
· Borders
· Tile skirting
· Tile inserts

Grouting

· How to grout
· Which grouts to use
· Removing and replacing old grout

Theory Sessions

These sessions will be carried out by our instructors, where students will observe various demonstrations covering most aspects of tiling. You will be shown techniques in nipping, cutting, applying patterns, marking out, mixing adhesives, grouting, general do's and donts, removing tiles and helpful hints and tips.

Working In Your Own Bay

A large part of the course will be hands on experience, every student will be allocated their own bathroom & kitchen bay where they will learn how tile both floors and walls working around various obstacles such as toilets, basins, pipes, plugs and switches. Our instructors will be on hand to help out with any problems or queries students may come across throughout the bay work.