10 day plastering course = £1300.00 including vat
This 10 day Intensive Plastering course is ideal if you are wanting to start a career in plastering and eventually move on to gain your NVQ level 2 in full plastering.
An intensive hands on plastering course suitable for all tradespersons looking to add more skills. Or a complete beginner looking for a life change.
No previous experience is needed.
This plastering course provides a wealth of background information as well as five days of intense training. A course suitable for new starts, tradespersons even enthusiastic DIY’ers.
Plastering Course contains:-
- Health and safety
- Business start up
- What plaster goes where
- Skimming to plasterboard
- Setting of finishing beads
- Skimming to existing plaster
- Repair plastering
- Bonding and skimming
- Setting bonding beads
- Plastering to ceilings
- Repairing ceilings
- Monocouch render (K REND)
All hands on. Information hand outs will be supplied prior to taking on a section.
You will go home with a clear practical and theoretical understanding of plastering in itself and as a trade.
From this course you may decide to go on to further training or set up for the domestic market. You may even use it as part of your work as well as plumbing, tiling or kitchen fitting.
All equipment is provided for the course, you will need steel toe capped boots and throw away clothes as you will mostly likely get messy.
You will be given a set of plastering tools to use during the course. You will work in your own full size plastering training bay which is bigger than most small bedrooms or bathrooms (2.4m in length and full room height at 2.4m). You will not share your bay! We only have 5 plastering training bays to ensure you are taught to the highest standard with a low student to teacher / trainer ratio. The room is filled with various scenarios – stud wall, block wall, pre-skimmed wall, a window, a block wall corner and everyone’s favourite – a decent size ceiling!
Once you have boarded and prepared your room (plastering training bay) it will be time to get messy – yes we would advise you to bring a change of clothes or a decorators over suit because once you start plastering a ceiling for the first time it can be messy. Once you have an hour or so under your belt and start to learn the technique you will start to get more on the ceiling than our floor.
Plastering walls will be next and this is when your arm will appreciate our nice big plastering training bays! 2.4m high and 2.4m long plus a window to trim up too.
You will then cover overs-skimming over previous work and repair plastering. The repair plastering requires you to bash a few holes in your work and is sometimes hard for you to accept but you will soon get over it. Feathering in (technique used on larger walls) will also be covered. Board fixing (dot and dab) will be used to board and plaster the block wall.
Plastering the full wall and ceilings will be tackled now as a complete project and not separate like the first week, you will also cover more advanced techniques such as plastering arches and curves on either walls or ceiling. We can sometime do both if time allows. The traditional method (which is still required) of plastering onto block work (bay and screed) will be used rather than board fixing (dot and dab).
Making use of the large training bays to perfect your plastering technique and build your confidence ready to take on a variety of work once you have completed the 10 day plastering course.
Working with K-Rend onto block work (getting very popular now) to create a coloured render face which is now specified on quite a few new builds. K-Rend comes in a variety of colours so may be applying white, beige or even terracotta and does not need painting!
By the end of the 10 days plastering course we aim to have you ready to take on most plastering or rendering jobs.
Extra content covered on every Homemend Solutions course.
- Tricks of the trade throughout the course
- Full Measuring and In-Depth Quoting based on your full size rooms.
- Marketing Techniques
- Business cards, logo design and how to advertise
- Insurance, TAX, CIS scheme and CSCS cards
- Business Start Up
- Course progression and NVQ’sPlease feel free to arrange a visit prior to booking.
- Take the tour and have a chat to students actually on the course.
- Applying K REND through coloured render to block wall and scratching to
- textured finish
- Plastering a ceiling
- Preparing a wall for plastering
- Plastering a wall
- What backgrounds require different preparation
- What plaster goes where
- Plastering tools explained
- Plastering and repairing walls and ceiling
10 day plastering course £1300 inc vat.