5 Day Tiling Course

ABOUT THIS COURSE

5 Day Tiling Course Description

At Goldtrowel, we teach you the essential skills and knowledge for wall and floor tiling. While many DIYers manage to tile their homes, this often relies on luck rather than skill. Tiling involves various techniques and standards, and without proper training, mistakes can be costly, especially since tiles and materials cannot be reused once damaged. In our 5-day course, you'll learn how to prepare different surfaces and successfully fix various tile types.

What you can expect to learn from this course

• Correctly lay / fix  and cut floor and wall tiles to various backgrounds and shapes.
• Understand the different types of Primers and how to use them.
• Differences between Ceramic, Porcelain, Mosaic and Natural Stone tiles.
• Tools and equipment usage and there differences. 
• Working in wet areas such as wet rooms and showers, applying tanking systems. 
• Prepare all types of backgrounds including wood, plaster, render, screed.
• Full understanding of how to correctly set out walls and floors prior to fixing the tiles.
• Full understanding of Grouting techniques, types and uses, and methods of application.
• Basic Health & Safety. 
• How to correctly apply silicon mastic.

During your training, feel free to ask any questions, there are no stupid questions! The training will be thorough but challenging, helping you reach your full potential. You will be given your own room and will work in different settings to learn about various situations and problems. You'll be tiling walls and ceilings that are similar to those found in regular homes, which are often not flat or square. There is a big difference between preparing and tiling existing surfaces.

Intensive Tiling course -  5 Day Content Breakdown

In depth discussions and demonstrations of materials, backgrounds, tools, setting out, mixing adhesives, general health and safety, basic setting out procedures, tile fixing procedures and tile types, this will all come with examples of problems that may be found with alternative and DIY ways of tiling. 

You will correctly start fixing your tiles after checks and setting out to the wall. 

You will now encounter openings, externals and internal angles, you will have discussions and demonstrations of how to cut tiles using various tools, cutters and equipment. This will lead to you using your new skills to cut tiles using methods shown. 

There will be discussions and demonstrations about tile trim types, you will learn how to cut fix and mitre using various methods, after which you shall cut and fix trim to your window reveals, and finish with cut reveal tiles. There will also be more discussions and demonstration on grouting types, techniques and procedures, you will then grout your finished tiling using the correct tools to achieve a 'high end' finished job. 

Discussion and examples of removal of tiles and the options available, you will then remove your wall tiles and prepare the wall ready for next student. This will be followed by setting out floor tiles and options available, cutting floor tiles around obstacles with options available, fixing techniques and options, you will lay and cut floor tiles to your floor.

After removing your floor tiles you will have discussions and demonstration of tanking systems and options available. End of course re-cap and distribution of course notes and awarding of Goldtrowel training certificate.