This 7-week tiling course is designed to give you a solid foundation, including a City & Guilds qualification and a comprehensive understanding of what’s required to progress toward an NVQ. Once you have completed your 7 weeks of intensive, hands on tiling training, you will then be industry ready which is where you need to be in order to achieve the tiling NVQ.
During this tiling course you will be trained and assessed to achieve a variety of units as well as receive training which reflects ‘reality’ and also provides you with a comprehensive understanding of what you will need to do to eventually achieve the NVQ level 2.
The course will cover:
Week 1 will teach you tiling basics, starting from scratch you will learn how to tile both wall and floor areas and gain a complete understanding of the requirements for any area you are planning to tile.
Week 2 is an advanced training week, providing you with the skills to tackle more complex areas and giving you the opportunity to build on your speed, technique, and confidence.
Week 3 is when the assessment of your skills starts. You will be assessed on:
- Unit 004: Tiling a Plain Wall
- Unit 116: Cutting and Fixing Tiles to Wet Areas
- Unit 101: Introduction to Health and Safety
During this week, we will also provide additional training (time permitting) to plan and install wall or floor area for brick effect installation.
Week 4 we will teach you complex pattern work. This program of learning will teach you how to plan and tile in complex pattens (usually herringbone patten). You will be presented with a choice of pattens which you can select from, allocated an area to install/fix and produce a product of work.
What you will learn:
- Prepare the surface to receive tiles
- Measure areas to calculate quantities required
- Select material
- Mix appropriate adhesives
- Install to desired patten
- Ensuring (with your instructors help) that you are working to a domestic and commercial standard of finish whilst also working clean and safe
- Grout your completed installation
Week 5 is when you will undertake additional assessments. You will be assessed on:
- Unit 115: Cutting and Fixing Decorative Panels
- Unit 117: Tiling Floors with a Border
Also in Week five, we will provide additional training listed below (only if time permits and this is dependant on learner progress) We will look to cover Waterproofing requirements for Wet rooms etc and Floor levelling systems so that even the most uneven of floors can be prepared to receive tiles.
Waterproofing / Tanking
We will explain to you how to apply specified tanking systems to wet areas such as a shower cubicle (prior to tiling) which will extinguish any doubt and ensure a tiled installation which should not fail
Floor levelling systems
- Gauging and mixing of materials
- Preparing background areas
- Installation of self-levelling system
Week 6 is all about plastering. If you want to be able to offer a full and valuable service, you will need to appreciate that not all tiling surfaces are ready for you to tile on. As a result, we have incorporated some plastering and rendering training into this package. This will enhance your portfolio of skills and ensure that you do not need to call in and rely on anyone else to complete that particular job. In the allocated week you will learn:
- Health & Safety and PPE
- To cut and fix plaster board to walls and ceilings
- To tape standard and internal joints
- To cut and fix angle beads around windows and reveals
- To prepare surfaces before plastering using bonding plaster and finishing plaster, ensuring a flat finished surface ready for decorating
- To mix plastering materials
- To skim walls To skim ceilings
- To apply PVA adhesive Unibond to existing surfaces
Week 7 - By now you will have acquired many new skills. Now that the assessment requirements for the 6219-08 qualification aspect are completed in full you will display your new skills and produce a product of work that is both domestically and commercially acceptable in the real working environment. You will be allocated a workstation that is set up similar to an average domestic bathroom where (to your own design) you produce work that would allow you to work in the real working environment.
