Tanking & Floor Screeding Courses

Floor Screeding and Tanking Courses

At Able Skills we have the facilities to offer training in many different subjects and subject areas which allows us to provide a service to particular tradesmen and encourage them to learn other skills which will be beneficial to their own particular area of work.

For Tilers, we have devised a combination week consisting of training in Tanking and Floor Screeding. This course will ensure that as Tilers, you can apply waterproofing (Tanking) to showers and wetrooms etc before applying tiles to the area and when working in areas with uneven floors, you can apply levelling techniques to develop a flat and even surface ready for tiling.

With these additional skills, you will be able to complete all aspects of any job that you take on, offer a wider range of skills and save time and money by not having to call in someone else to cover these areas.

We have specific designated areas in order to complete these training courses; Tanking training areas are located within Able Skills dedicated Tiling Training Centre and areas for Floor Screeding can be found within our dedicated Plastering Training Centre.

These combined courses are available Monday – Friday or split over 2 weekends. If you only want to cover one aspect of this course, this is available during the week or for 1 weekend.

5 Day Tanking & Floor Screeding course: £395.00

Available separately:

2 day Tanking course:  £249.00
3 Day Floor Screeding course: £249.00

Floor Screeding

This 3 day course will be useful to Tilers looking to be able to cover all necessary and required aspects when undertaking floor tiling. As well as being able to tile the area, you can now learn to level and prepare uneven floors to receive tiles. After completing this course you will have the confidence and ability to ensure a perfect finish and enable you to tile the floor to perfection.

During this 3 day course you will be taught how to obtain the correct gradients should you be looking to complete wet rooms or walk in showers or to get floors flat and level to a finish.

We will take you through floor screeding on new or alteration contracts to include:

•    Calculating the quantities of materials required
•    Gauging and mixing of screeding materials
•    Transferring datum levels
•    Preparing background areas, brushed and bonded
•    Positioning screeding battens/screeds
•    Laying and finishing floor screeds level and to falls
•    Incorporating drainage inlets

We will also advise on the available types and purpose of damp proof membranes, self levelling compounds, associated drainage items, screeding equipment, laser levels, and tools required to complete the work competently and accurately.

Tanking

Tiling in wet areas such as shower cubicles can often be a problem as there is always an element of doubt that if you apply your tiles onto plasterboard or marine ply board in wet areas, that you could encounter a failed tiled installation, in other words, the tiles may fall off after a short period of time costing you financially for the repair.

Tanking is used to create a non permeable membrane between your tiles and the surface substrate and this Tanking course will show you how to eliminate any problems you have encountered previously.

We will show you how to apply specified tanking systems to these wet areas (prior to tiling) which will extinguish any doubt and ensure a tiled installation which will not fail.

We will go through the system of applying tanking systems from start to finish so that when you have completed your course at Able Skills you will be capable of tiling in wet areas with confidence.

If you would like to tile the area after having completed the tanking system, we require that you have some tiling background or that you have attended a tiling training course at Able Skills.

These are hands-on, practical courses and you will be involved at every stage and will be participating throughout. It is therefore recommended you bring suitable clothing and for your own safety, steel capped footwear is essential. All tools and materials will be provided throughout your training period.

5 Day Tanking & Floor Screeding combined course: £395.00

Also available separately:

2 day Tanking course:  £249.00
3 Day Floor Screeding course: £249.00

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Book the Above Course

We are sorry but this course is not available for online booking. To book this course, please call us on 01322 280202 or use the form below: