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Bathroom Installation Course from Able Skills
Have you considered a career in Bathroom Installation but instead of being just the Plumber, you can also be the Plasterer and the Tiler and offer a complete one man service to your customers?
At Able Skills we have devised a training package for those of you who may be considering a career in Bathroom installation but who want to be able to provide a fuller service which will save your customers both time and money.
The Bathroom Installation training we have put together will take just 3 weeks and will cover plumbing, wall and floor tiling and plastering. These skills combined will ensure that you have the confidence and ability to deliver a complete bathroom installation service.
All of our training at Able Skills is entirely hands on and all of our courses run every week within their own training centres. This ensures that you can undertake these 3 weeks of training in any order, at any time throughout the year as we are open 7 days every week and this also means that you can incorporate weekend training if you choose. All of Able Skills instructors are trade experienced as well as being qualified as instructors so the level of training you will receive from us is second to none.
As you come to finish your training, you will have the option to spend an extra week with us and put your skills to the test. In doing so, you will be required to remove and replace an entire bathroom suite, remove tiles and prepare surfaces to receive your new tiles.
You will be required to calculate all of the relevant materials required to provide this complete bathroom installation service.
This is a very challenging week but well worth the opportunity to put your skills to the test in a simulated environment where you can see just how good a Bathroom Installer you are!
The Plumbing Training
During the Plumbing aspect of this training we will ensure that you have received training in
- Practical health and safety
- Plumbing systems and fittings
- Soldering techniques
- Jointing, bending and pressure testing copper tube
- Plumbing pipe work
- Copper pipe work skills
- Valves, taps, cisterns, and cylinders
- Plastic Tube installation
- Plumbing systems
- Domestic plumbing systems
- Bathroom installation
- Soil and waste pipes
- Installing Radiators
- Fault Finding
The Tiling Training
The week of Tiling training will ensure that you are fully competent in both wall and floor tiling and you will learn
- Setting out your tiling work.
- Explaining all the different adhesives used for different surfaces.
- Demonstrating all the tools required.
- Cutting tiles using wet tile cutters, dry tile cutters, tile scribes, tile snips and tile saws.
- Explaining tiling involving Borders, Diamonds and Patterns.
- How to cut around windows and reveals.
- How to cope with tiling difficult areas such as uneven walls.
- How to tile angled ceilings and socket areas.
- How to tile splash-backs.
- How to tile around boxed in pipes.
The Plastering Training
Plastering can be a tough subject to master but this week of training will ensure that you have the skills to prepare any bathroom you are working in so that the finished product is completely satisfactory to any of your customers. You will be taught
- 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.
The Final Test?
If you have the time available to you then you can consider whether or not you are ready to put all of your new skills to the test and where better to test yourself than at our training centre and in our bathrooms!
A final week will see you completely rip out a bathroom suite and remove all existing tiles to provide you with a blank canvass to start again. You can then prepare your surfaces by plastering and repairing any damage you may have caused to the walls, install your complete bathroom suite and tile and grout the walls and floors to complete the installation. This will be your last chance to perfect your skills before moving on to paying customers and it is also a great opportunity to tie together everything that you will have learned. Anything you are unsure of or you may have forgotten can be put right during this final week and this will add to your new found confidence.
Electric Showers
If you are confident in the services you can offer as a Bathroom Installer then maybe you would consider taking this career one step further so that you can undertake certain Electrical installations.
You may wish to consider Part P Domestic Installer training which will enable you to offer a far more detailed service as you will be able to undertake the installation and connection of Electric showers.
Please visit our Introductory to Electrics page to gain full details on how you can become Part P registered in your role as a Bathroom Installer.
Part P training will be available at a reduced rate to anyone undertaking this 3 week Bathroom Installation training
3 Week Bathroom Installation Course Fees are £995 Inc VAT
Final Assessment Week Fees £495 Inc VAT
To book a course, please phone our booking line on 0808 100 3245.
For more information please Email us.
Courses are held Monday to Friday. Weekend training is Saturday and Sunday.
Able Skills has their own accommodation available at £20 per night for those of you who are travelling longer distances to train with us.
