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If you are about to leave the forces and are thinking about a career in Plastering, come and try one of our plastering or tiling courses, We offer full, intensive self employed plastering or tiling courses, All the information you could possibly need you need to go self employed is covered on our course, all you have to do is turn up, that's it.
We can offer a full residential course which includes all your training, Beakfast, lunch and evening meals plus accomodation
Please ring for details
Please call 0191 4274529 for more information.
Available Courses include:
4 DAY PLASTERING COURSE
8 DAY PLASTERING COURSE
1 DAY ARTEX SKIMMING AND COVING COURSE
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4 DAY WALL AND FLOOR TILING COURSE
8 DAY ULTIMATE TILING COURSE
1 DAY NATURAL STONE TILING COURSE
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4 DAY BATHROOM PLUMBING COURSE
1 DAY PLUMBING PROBLEM SOLVER COURSE
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10 - 23 DAY MULTI SKILLED COURSES
This intensive plastering courses will enable you to prepare any surface prior tiling work or simply do a paying customers full ceiling or wall plastering job to a quality standard. We cover skimming, dot and dabbing, dry lining, browning render, sand and cement render and floor screeding on this course
You will be working in your own room sized bay and have to complete a full plaster job from the boarding out of walls and ceilings to the final skim coat, You will also be working on brick walls for your rendering and dot and dabbing, angle beading etc. We keep the numbers down to a minimum so we can give more individual attention. As well as learning all the tricks of the trade in plastering to get you up to speed quickly, you will be taken through a full understanding of running a self employed plastering business from tools to pricing jobs and dealing with customers, a full detailed information handout book will be given to all students, this valuable book will detail all the different surface preparation and different situations that you are likely to come across when plastering for a living out in the real world, plasterers alone can earn up to £250 per day
Who is it for?
Its suitable for anyone wanting to learn how to plaster or someone who wants a full career change.
Topics covered:
- Plastering tools explained
- Health and Safety
- Public liability insurances
- Running a self employed plastering business
- How to successfully make money from plastering
- Keeping accounts
- Tax and National Insurance
- All background preparation explained in detail
- Full hand out on what to do and where
- Prepare walls and ceilings prior to fixing boards
- How to cut and shape plasterboard
- Repairing walls after tile removal
- Bonding coats and sand and cement render coats
- External rendering
- Dry lining
- Dot and dab plaster boarding
- Repair work to existing walls
- Dealing with sockets
- Correct mixing of plaster materials
- Fixing angle beads on corners
- Dealing with windows and boxing-in
- Scrim and taping of joints
- Application of finishing plaster
- How to achieve a flat perfect finish
- Pricing rooms
- Measuring up for materials
- Dealing with customers
- Winning quotations
- Customer service skills
This one day plastering course can be added on to any of the other courses we do, this course includes fitting coving to ceilings, cutting 
internal and external mitres, You will be Artexing and skimming over the Artexing you have done, this is a busy full on practical day in the workshop
- Introduction to materials
- Tools required
- Boarding out walls ready for coving to ceiling
- mixing adhesives
- cutting mitres in coving
- Understanding angles
- fixing coving
- Patching in
- Artexing
- Covering Artex to a smooth plastered finish
- Pricing
- Manual
Who is it for?
This ultimate plastering course is designed to give you as much knowledge as we can to help you succeed in running your own plastering business, on this course we cover all the details that you will cover on the 4 day course along with a lot more challenging situations and with much more practical time for learning and going over different situations you are likely to find yourself in when out in the real world plastering for a living, a must if your seriously thinking about changing career in this lucrative trade, good quality plasterers are always in demand and can earn up to £250 per day. A full detailed information handout will be given to back up the course that you can refer to when facing different situations when you leave.
Its suitable for anyone with an interest in plastering who wants a full career change. We accept anyone willing to learn!
Topics covered:
- Plastering Tools explained
- Health and Safety
- CSCS cards
- Running a self employed plastering business
- How to successfully make money from plastering
- Keeping accounts
- Tax and National insurance
- All background preparation explained
- Full back up handout on what to do and where
- Prepare walls and ceilings prior to fixing boards
- How to cut and fix plasterboard
- Repairing walls and ceilings
- Arches
- Shaping window angle beads
- Repairing walls after tile removal
- Bonding coats and sand and cement render coats
- Dry Lining
- Dot and Dab plaster boarding
- Correct mixing of plaster
- Fixing of angle beads
- Dealing with windows and boxing in
- Scrim and taping of joints
- Dealing with sockets
- Coving
- Floor screeding
- Application of finishing plaster
- How to achieve a perfect flat finish
- Pricing rooms
- Measuring up for materials
- Dealing with customers
- Winning quotes
- Customer service
4 Day Wall and Floor Tiling courses. 
(Please see Fees page for prices)
NO PRIOR TILING EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
(Because our courses start at 8.45am and finish at 6.30pm every day, 2 hours longer than a normal tiling course, It is a five day course content, run over 4 days)
All units achieved can go towards your NVQ portfolio
Course contents ;
Courses running weekly
This 4 day course above certainly delivers the goods and will give you a full understanding of all the topics above, why things work and why they don't, this will help you out immensely when you are running your own tiling business. Our teaching methods are very clear and very easy to follow, You will be looked after by 3 trainers, there is always someone close to help you out, should you need any help. We are here to help you succeed. We have made our course very straight forward and easy to follow so there is no need to worry about anything.
Don't forget you have unlimited access to our after care service when you have finished should you need any further advice.
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1 Day Natural Stone Courses.
8.45 to 6pm
(Please see Fees page for prices)
A must if you want to put yourself ahead of the average ceramic tiler.
You will gain a full understanding of all the natural stone tiles, marble, slate, granite, porcelain, travertine, terraccotta etc. You will be fixing slate tiles to the floor and marble to the walls in this course as well as drilling holes and cutting them with diamond tipped cutting tools, you will gain an understanding of all the appropriate sealers that go with these tiles as well.
Course contents; 
- IDENTIFICATION
- CLEANING AND MAINTANENCE
- KNOWLEDGE OF FIXING AND SEALING GRANITE, MARBLE, SLATE, TRAVERTINE, TERRAZZO, TERACOTTA, LIMESTONE, QUARRY TILES
- SEALING
- STAIN REMOVAL
- DIFFERENT SEALER PRODUCTS
- PRICES
- FIXING SLATE AND MARBLE TO WALL AND FLOORS
- CUTTING
- DRILLING
- USE OF WATER COOLED DIAMOND TIPPED HOLE CUTTERS
- USE OF WATER COOLED DIAMOND TIPPED MACHINE CUTTERS
- CEMENT BOARDS
- WET ROOMS
- UNDER FLOOR HEATING
- ADVANCED LAYOUT DESIGNS
- RANDOM PATTEN TILES
- SALES AND MARKETING
- DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE MONEY FROM TILING
- LATEST PRODUCT INFO FROM TILING COMPANIES
- PRE MADE STEP BY STEP NOTES FOR YOU TO TAKE AWAY AS A REFERENCE ON HOW TO FIX EACH INDIVIDUAL TILE
Courses running weekly
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8 DAY ULTIMATE TILING COURSE
This fantastic course Includes the 4 day course, and then a bespoke design course for the ultimate in going self employed Wall and Floor tiling course. All the training you will ever need will be covered in depth in this time with a back up of about 50 pages of course information, you do not need a longer course than this one. This is our ultimate tiling course, simply do your training and then be able to go straight into a paying customers house and do whatever the job requires
This course starts at 8.45 - 6.30pm, the two hours extra tuition per day adds up to a course tuition value of 10 days
Please ring for availability as this course gets booked up very quickly
Suitable for anyone with no prior tiling experience
Courses running weekly
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4 DAY BATHROOM PLUMBING COURSE
This Intensive 4 Day bathroom Plumbing course is a fantastic addition
to any tiler or plasterer, take away the problems of relying on other tradesmen to work with you, This course simply makes life easier for you with a bonus of making more money.
We will teach you the easiest methods to shut off the hot and cold water, drain down, take out and replace a bath, wash basin and toilet using all push fittings and compression fitting along with flexible pipes that can be easily connected in any situation, no prior plumbing skills are necessary for this course, as with all our courses they are extensively backed up with pre typed up note information handouts for you to take home with you after you leave the course, these new very easy to use plumbing fittings take away the old ways of copper pipe bending and soldering with heat flame guns, simply cut the pipe push the fitting on the end and there you have a solid sealed fitting
Course Contents
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Understanding plumbing tools
- Remove / replace radiators
- Explanation of all push fittings
- Explanation of all compression fittings
- Explanation of trap waste fittings
- Removal of sanitary ware
- Understanding of heating systems
- How to turn off water and drain down system
- Repairs to leaking taps
- Soldering
- Copper Pipe Bending
- Off set pan connectors
- Dealing with air locks
- Install taps on a wash basin / bath
- Install pipe fittings
- Re route pipework
- Dealing with toilet soil waste pipes
- Connecting flexi hose waste pipes
This course makes the tilers life a little easier as it removes the need to cut around the sanitary ware or employ someone else to do it.
Courses Running weekly
Please tel for details
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MULTI SKILLED COURSES
Please see main courses page for all of our multi Skilled courses
