I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for creating such a friendly environment during my plumbing, tiling and painting & decorating courses. I had a brilliant time and thoroughly enjoyed every second I spent training at Able Skills. I am now confident enough to deal with the common DIY problems at home. Thanks also go to Jim, Max and Mark, they are all wonderful instructors. In future, I look forward to see you all again and will certainly recommend you to my friends so they can benefit like I did at Able Skills.

Kind regards

Kumar Gurung
MOD Corsham

Plastering

Director of Able Skills back on the plaster tools

Able Skills are pleased to announce our 10 year anniversary, offering plastering qualifications to the masses!

In light of this, we have made our prices even more competitive to celebrate the occasion.

Offers start from as little as £249 with the 5 Day Intensive Plastering Course. This course is specially designed to give people the basic DIY knowledge they desire.

The 5 Day Advanced Plastering Course – £249. This course is to give those the opportunity to improve on their skills a step further.

The 3 Week Unit Accreditation Plastering Course – £895. This qualification meets the needs of those who work or want to work in the Plastering industry.

City & Guilds 4 Week 6218 Diploma Plastering Course – £1495. This qualification will provide you with the certificates you need to get yourself into the plastering industry as a qualified plasterer.

City & Guilds 6 Week 6218 & NVQ Diploma Plastering Course – £1795. This qualification not only provides you with the certificates you need to get into the industry but also enrols and supports you through your Level 2 NVQ.

City & Guilds 8 Week 6217 & NVQ Plastering Course – £2295. This qualification has more practical assessments and exercises throughout the course and also gains you the qualifications needed to get in the industry as well as progress onto and support you through the Level 2 NVQ.

City & Guilds 10 Week 6217 & NVQ Level 3 Plastering Course- £2795. This course not only gains you the level 2 certificate in Plastering but also helps you enrol, support and progress through the Level 3 NVQ programme.

Throughout these courses all of your tools and materials are provided in our dedicated plastering centre.

We would like to say thank you to Spencer for being part of the last 10 years, providing all of his students with a wealth of knowledge. Also, many thanks to Jo, who is a 3^rd generation plasterer and is teaching all of his students the family secrets that have travelled down to him.

Gary, the director of the company, spent some time out on the floor with the plasterers and the students to demonstrate his skills and experience as a plasterer and to show that he has not lost his touch and can still get the job done.

One of the factors that shows Able Skills can produce qualified and competent plasterers is that we have a number of students who have left, started their own business and are now returning the favour by taking out our current NVQ students to help them get in to the industry and build their portfolios. Once enrolled onto the NVQ programme and working on site we send out our instructors to assess the work on site and guide the NVQ students down the right path.

Able Skills does a lot of work with the larger plastering companies in providing them with a service to help up skill and train their staff to the NVQ Level.

Both of our Plastering instructors are approachable and friendly and are always around to provide advice and guidance to future plasterers. We would like to encourage anybody interested in any of the courses that we offer to come and have a look at the facilities we provide and meet all of our staff to ensure that this is the right place for you. We are open 7 days a week and require no appointments.

A word to the wise, if you are looking for a centre to provide a plastering course up to a qualification. Make sure you go to an established centre and try and visit the centre before you hand over your deposit. Do your research on the company you are looking to book with and make sure the staff are qualified to teach you to the level you want to achieve.

Overall, Roy & Jim were great instructors and I would highly recommend anyone to come to Able Skills and become a plumber!

Gavin Hood attended the 8 week 6129 City & Guilds Plumbing course

Throughout the plumbing course I found the tutors to be very helpful and they answered all of my questions. They made sure that I was fully prepared for all my exams and assessments, which gave me more confidence in my skills. I was very impressed with the facilities we had to complete the course and found that with each assessment, even thought there was a time limit to complete it, I did not feel rushed and managed to complete all the tasks within the time provided.

Josh Iddon attended the 12 week Carpentry & Joinery City & Guilds course

Having decided to retrain as a carpenter I looked on the internet for information on how to go about this. I quickly found Able Skills website and decided to book myself onto a 12 week Carpentry and Joinery course (6217-02 & 6217 05-06 + NVQ).

To begin with I was slightly apprehensive before starting the course as I wasn’t sure if it was going to be like being back at school again (which I was never a fan of!). Thankfully, it’s nothing like that! You can come and go as you please and learn at your own rate. I have been very pleased with the way the training is given. You are shown how to do the task and then can get on with it on your own, but with Tim or Paul close by if help is needed. I personally find this much easier without having someone watching over your shoulder constantly.

The instructors Tim and Paul are very knowledgeable and experienced carpenters and I have found them both to be great teachers. They quite often have slightly different, but equally good ways of doing tasks. I’ve found this to be a good thing as you can see and practise different methods of doing things. Although 12 weeks isn’t going to turn anyone into a fully fledged master carpenter, I now feel very confident enough that I could get work as a capable improving carpenter for other companies. Like driving, I think the main learning will come after you’ve passed the test.

There are very few things I believe could be improved on. For example, I think sometimes there were a few too many people on the course. This isn’t too bad if most students have been on the course a few weeks but when a few newbies start it can take a while to get help or advice as the new students requite more time. When the student numbers are high this can create a problem with tools too, with most being used.

Please don’t let any of that put you off Able Skills, I have been extremely happy with the training I’ve received and have met a lot of people/friends on the carpentry course who have all have been very pleased too.

To sum up, anyone thinking of training at Able Skills should just go and have a look around the training centre, have a chat with the instructors and students and I am sure you will be impressed.

Many Thanks Able Skills, Josh.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your help and effort you put in on assisting me on achieving my resettlement training with Able Skills.

I had a great time and felt really at home with Able. I will be recommending Able skills to friends and colleagues. I also will be coming back in the future to attend the C&G Painting & Decorating course.

So to that end a big thank you goes to you and all the staff.”

Kind Regards

Ian Marsh

James Price – 5 Week City & Guilds Painting & Decorating Course

David Young – 8 Week City & Guilds Carpentry NVQ Course

Michael Harman – Complete New Entrant Gas Training Course

Johnny Barker – City & Guilds 8 Week Level 2 Plumbing Course

Tracey Riley – Weekend Introductory Plumbing Course