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Plastering Apprenticeship
We are looking for a motivated individual to undertake a Plastering Apprenticeship. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, reliable, punctual, and willing to learn. They must be able to follow instructions and be comfortable carrying out the physical aspects of the role.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work:
- Preparing surfaces ready for plastering, including cleaning and applying bonding agents
- Mixing and applying plaster to walls and ceilings to achieve a smooth finish
- Repairing and patching damaged plasterwork
- Applying finishing coats and ensuring surfaces are ready for decoration
- Maintaining a clean and safe working environment on site
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider: GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
Course contents:
Core:
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
- Use access equipment, for example, hop ups, podiums, or low-level scaffolding.
- Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
- Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
- Check, use, and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
- Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
- Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
- Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers, and customers.
- Apply team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
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Specialist (SP):
- Estimate quantities and select solid plastering and render materials.
- Select, use, and store hand tools for solid plastering and rendering.
- Mix materials for solid plastering and render to ratio.
- Apply floating coat plaster to solid backgrounds, including the formation of 90-degree angles with bead, consolidation, and mechanical key application.
- Apply setting coat plaster.
- Apply plain face render to scratch coat renders, including forming a hard angle.
- Apply scratch coat renders, including mechanical key, dobbing out coats, and application of render beads.
- Prepare background surfaces to receive solid plasters and renders, including the application of solid plastering and render primers and sealers.
- Measure, mark out, and cut plasterboard to fit area and obstacles, using hand tools.
- Install plasterboard to timber surfaces and reinforce joints.
- Direct bond plasterboard to solid backgrounds, including sealing around obstacles.
- Carry out solid plaster repair: For example, replace plasterboard, patch plaster to solid background.
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Fibrous Plastering (FP):
- Select, use, and store hand tools for fibrous plastering applications.
- Estimate quantities and select fibrous plastering materials.
- Prepare and mix fibrous plaster materials, including reinforcement.
- Prepare and mark out background surfaces to receive fibrous plaster components.
- Construct moulds.
- Prepare bench and moulds for casting.
- Run mould and release casts.
- Measure and cut fibrous components to form straight and mitred cuts.
- Set and mark out for cornice installation.
- Fix cornice including straight runs, stops, and 90-degree internal and external angles.
- Carry out fibrous plaster repair, for example, replacement or patching.
- Set out for fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
- Fix fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in a new tab).
To become a qualified plasterer with the opportunity to progress to Site Supervisor, Foreperson, or several other options.
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