City and Guilds Plastering Courses are for those wishing to start a career in plastering, but who have a limited time available. The course will give you the opportunity to make the move with minimal financial outlay, whilst still learning the essential plastering skills required to work in the real world. It also has the benefit of still getting you a recognised City and Guilds Plastering Certificate.
To earn the City & Guilds certificate, you must complete plastering training and assessments through the City & Guilds 6219 suite. This qualification covers essential skills for domestic plastering, and you will be assessed during your training to ensure you achieve the qualification.
During your training, feel free to ask any questions—there are no stupid questions! Take your time to learn, but keep in mind that plaster sets at its own pace. You'll have your own room to practice and understand set times. The walls and ceilings you'll work on will reflect the typical irregularities found in homes. Learning to skim plasterboard is very different from skimming existing plaster.
In depth discussion and demonstrations of plasterboard and board types, and how to correctly plasterboard ceilings, including plaster boarding around RSJ`s, and fire prevention requirements.
Fixing plasterboard to timber joists, types of plasterboard fixings, cutting and shaping plasterboard, uses and purposes of scrim tape, scrim joint your plasterboard.
Discussion and demonstration on applying finish plaster to plasterboard and existing plastered ceilings, then apply a 2 coat skim finish to your newly plaster boarded ceiling, using the correct method and procedures.
In depth discussion and demonstrations of mixing and applying backing coats, traditional sand and cement / Gypsum coats (float) coats, applying scratch coats and backing coat to solid wall/s, use of screeds when floating, ruling techniques `free ruling` and `bead ruling`, rubbing up and devil floating backing coats.
Further discussion and demonstration on Angle beads, setting techniques and fixing of angle (Render) beads to full length external and/or window, scrape back and cut-back of your floated wall/s, ready for skim plaster finishing, applying finish plaster to flat walls and window walls, apply 2 coat finish plaster to your previously floated wall/s, repairs to ceilings and walls and carry out plaster repairs to ceiling and wall.
Moving to a different room, you will be re-skimming over previously plastered wall/s and ceiling, this will combine your skills learnt on days 1 and 3.
In depth discussion concerning quantities and coverage of materials used in plastering and the use of `skim` beads, cutting and fixing these angle beads to the wall/s externals.
Explanation and chance to practice laying traditional sand and cement floor screed, using datums, floor insulation and dpm (damp proof membranes), plaster coving, you will cut and fix coving to two walls incorporating acute and 90 degree internals and external end caps, clean fill and finish ready for decoration.
You will then be moving into different rooms, with each room having its own unique problems, these differences highlight the skills required to successfully complete plastering tasks in different houses / environments, in addition to the skills learnt in week 1, you will learn new skills (traits) such as dot and dab, this is a very popular method of plastering and used extensively in the modern construction industry, this shows you how to stick plasterboard to the wall before applying your finish plaster.
Another new skill learnt in week 2 is the application of Artex, and how to plaster over it, Artex is a decorative finish used predominately through the 70`s - 90`s, and although this is rarely used nowadays, there is still a lot of homes that still have it on both the walls and ceilings, it is a very common job for plasterers to overcome, you will be shown methods of how to plaster this successfully.
Lastly you will be learning how to quantify, select and price the job your doing, whether this is for your own personal plastering job or someone else.
The third week follows suit with the previous 2 weeks, but each room, wall or ceiling you plaster during this week will become more problematic and bigger, you will start using some specialist tools, commonly associated with professional plastering, such as speed skims, flexi-trowels, plastic trowels, midget trowels, margin trowels and spatulas.
The final week will be used for your City & Guilds Assessments, you will be given instructions and drawings for you to work from, your job will be assessed in the training centre by your assessor.
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