Plastering

British Gypsum’s new Thistle Uni-Finish eliminates the inconvenience of two-step re-skimming for professional plasterers.

Leading plaster manufacturer, Knauf Drywall, is to focus all its resources on advancing its machine-sprayable finishing plasters.

A Bristol plasterer has used his construction skills to complete his own historic restoration project.

Female footballer relies on her plastering skills when off the pitch.

East Yorkshire plasterers become the first in Yorkshire to be approved to used pioneering wall material, Fermacell.

A trainee tiler is showing how valuable apprentices can be to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).

Morrison, the repairs and maintenance company, has won a number of new business contracts in the north east of England, raising potential opportunities for tradespeople across a range of disciplines. The company, which is a major provider of maintenance services to social housing organisations, has won a new 12-month contract with the Two Castles Housing […]

The Able Skills Plastering Centre was established with one single aim in mind – to teach people how to plaster. Our Assessors Jo and Spencer are time served plaster craftsmen who have the skills and ability to maximise the potential of all their students.If you are already working as a Plasterer but have never achieved […]

The construction industry is potentially one of the few sectors that seems ideally placed to not only withstand the effects of the recession, but to come out of it in a stronger position. Therefore, the time has never been better to train to take advantage of the upturn, whenever it comes. Plasterers are very much […]

Able Skills students that have already completed their City & Guilds qualifications with us and now progressing on to their NVQ have had the fantastic opportunity of working in our new electrical AM2 centre to build up their portfolios under the watchful eye of our plastering assessor, Jo. They are plastering all the new classrooms […]

Able Skills plastering NVQ Assessor, Spencer, is currently at Milton Keynes doing on-site visits for a company that sent some of their staff members to us to be trained with a City & Guilds plastering qualification up to NVQ Level 2. Spencer is currently assessing their on-site work so they can gain an NVQ Level […]

Plastering is an important trade that can lead to valuable job opportunities – demand for plastering is unlikely to run out as it is required when new buildings are built, when old buildings are refurbished or redecorated, and also when other trades, for example electricians, have caused damage to walls during the course of their […]