Start your career in plastering

Start your career in plastering with an apprenticeship working on real domestic projects across Liskeard and the surrounding areas. You’ll learn essential skills such as surface preparation, boarding, skimming, and repair work while working alongside experienced tradespeople. This is a great opportunity to earn while you learn.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

• Prepare work areas and protect surfaces
• Mix plaster
• Apply plaster to walls and ceilings
• Help install plasterboard
• Smooth and finish surfaces
• Carry tools and materials
• Clean tools and keep the site tidy
• Work with experienced plasterers
• Follow health and safety policies

Where you'll work

TREVIGRO BUNGALOW
TREVIGRO
CALLINGTON
PL17 7JS

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

SKILLS TO GROUP LIMITED

Training course

Plasterer (level 2)
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What you'll learn

Course contents

• Core: Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
• Core: Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Core: Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
• Core: Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
• Core: Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
• Core: Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
• Core: Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
• Core: Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
• Core: Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
• Core: Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
• Core: Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
• Core: Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
• SP: Estimate quantities and select solid plastering and render materials.
• SP: Select, use and store hand tools for solid plastering and rendering.
• SP: Mix materials for solid plastering and render to ratio.
• SP: Apply floating coat plaster to solid back grounds, including the formation of 90 degree angles with bead, consolidation and mechanical key application.
• SP: Apply setting coat plaster.
• SP: Apply plain face render to scratch coat renders, including forming a hard angle.
• SP: Apply scratch coat renders, including mechanical key, dobbing out coats and application of render beads.
• SP: Measure, mark out and cut plasterboard to fit area and obstacles, using hand tools.
• SP: Install plasterboard to timber surfaces and reinforce joints.
• SP: Direct bond plasterboard to solid backgrounds, including sealing around obstacles.
• SP: Carry out solid plaster repair: For example, replace plasterboard, patch plaster to solid background.
• FP: Select, use and store hand tools for fibrous plastering applications.
• FP: Estimate quantities and select fibrous plastering materials.
• FP: Prepare and mix fibrous plaster materials, including reinforcement.
• FP: Prepare and mark out background surfaces to receive fibrous plaster components.
• FP: Construct moulds.
• FP: Prepare bench and moulds for casting.
• FP: Run mould and release casts.
• FP: Measure and cut fibrous components to form straight and mitred cuts.
• FP: Set and mark out for cornice installation.
• FP: Fix cornice including straight runs, stops and 90 degree internal and external angles.
• FP: Carry out fibrous plaster repair, for example, replacement or patching.
• FP: Set out for fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
• FP: fix fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
• Core: Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
• Core: Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Core: Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
• Core: Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
• Core: Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
• Core: Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
• Core: Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
• Core: Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
• Core: Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
• Core: Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
• Core: Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
• Core: Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.