Professional Painting and Decorating

Professional Painting & Decorating Course The ultimate course for those intending to become a professional decorator.

This covers all the basic skills, techniques and knowledge for you to start your own business as a professional painter & decorator. It combines the one week modules on painting, wallpapering, coving & wide vinyls, and a final project which brings all your newly aquired skills together into your first real job!

This final exercise is to produce a written quotation, for decorating a room and then to carry out the decoration as per your quotation; effectively your first real job at a professional level.

This experience will improve your skill levels as well as speed which ultimately dictates your potential earnings.

Also included within this course is the business start programme covering the administration, simple bookkeeping, insurance requirements, sales & marketing and successful advertising. The course covers:

• Substrates - types and preparation
• Painting systems, understanding colour
• Tools - correct selection and use
• Lining paper, cross lining
• Wallpaper hanging, ceilings, walls, revels, arches etc
• Wide vinyls - commercial
• Coving - internal and external corners
• Estimating and quotations
• Business start-up; administration, sales and marketing, how to win business
• Follow our marketing plan for success!
• Final exercise - completely decorate your training bay

Our decorating courses will cover these points and more:

• Your tool kit in detail.
• Which paints, wallpapers and tools to use and when to use them.
• How to prepare and paint woodwork, walls and ceilings.
• How to prepare and line walls and ceilings.
• How to paper walls.
• How to hang wide vinyls.
• How to fix coving
• How to apply specialist paint finishes.
• What to do when you finish your course.
• Becoming self-employed.
• Marketing Plan for your business.
• How and where to advertise.
• How to estimate and how to price work accurately.
• How to deal with customers.

Once you have completed the STC decorating course you can go onto start your own business.

But we do not stop the support and help there, we offer FREE ADVICE for product queries and problem solving etc to help keep you on track.