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Professional 30 days

You will learn

Basic Health and Safety.
Measuring and setting out.
Estimating tile quantities.
Tiling tools and their uses.
Tile cutting.
Choice of adhesive and grout.
Application of adhesive and grout.
Tile fixing and grouting.
Silicone sealant application.
Tiling onto different wooden surfaces.
Uneven surface treatments.
Surface preparation.
Expansion joints.
Box sections.
Borders and patterns.
Skirting tiling.
Tiling around radiators.
Tiling around sink pedestals and toilet bowls.
Tiling steps.
Tiling shop fronts.
Introduction to waterproofing (tanking).
Introduction to under tile heating.
Installing under tile heating.
Introduction to working with natural stone, marble, mosaics, and slate.
Customer service.
Internet marketing.
Estimates and invoicing.
Trade suppliers.
Trade associations.
Business start-up advice.

Course benefits

Skills to tackle jobs involving wall and floor tiling and tiling maintenance in both domestic and construction industry environments.
Capability to recognise tasks that require specialised tiling skills.
Developing internet business marketing and customer service.
Training handouts.
post-course help line.
Additional post-course practical days if required.

Who should attend

This course is aimed at individuals who intend to start their own tiling business.

The course is designed to cover the practical tiling skills necessary to tackle reasonably complex wall and floor tiling jobs that may involve irregular surfaces. Typical examples are kitchens, bathrooms, conservatories, porches, halls, and cloakrooms.

In addition, the course covers the steps necessary to start your own business including internet marketing, advertising, customer service, estimating, invoicing, accountancy, and tax.

Twenty seven days 'hands-on' practical tiling is included in this course to allow course members time to practice tiling techniques.

Picture of wall tiles from British Ceramic Tile

Picture of wall and floor tiles from British Ceramic Tile

Course content

Techniques

Setting out walls.
Choice of adhesive and grout.
Setting out floors.
Expansion joints.
Tiling to plaster.
Tiling to plasterboard.
Tiling to render.
Tiling to different wood surfaces.
Tiling to screed.
Tiling to masonry.
Tiling to metal.
Tiling a balcony.
Tiling to asphalt.
Tiling steps.
Overtiling existing wall tiles.
Overtiling existing floor tiles.
Weight considerations of wall tiles.
Wall surface identification.
Floor surface identification.

Ply and man-made board overlays.
Floor surface preparation.
Brickbond tile layout.
Borders.
Diamond tiling layout.
Under tile heating explained.
Introduction to waterproofing (tanking).
Natural stone tiling explained.
Slate tiling explained.
Marble tiling explained.
Mosaics tiling explained.
Skirting tiles.
Removal of doors from casings.
scribing-in and re-hanging doors after floor tiling.
Angled ceilings.
Method statements.
Risk assessment.

Tiling

Tiling around windows.
Tiling into window reveals.
Tiling kitchen and bathroom walls.
Use of wet-cutter to mitre tiles and cut holes.
Box sections.
Using borders.

Wall surface preparation.
Wall preparation for wet areas.
Floor preparation for wet areas.
Waterproofing (tanking) installation.
Dealing with radiators.
Building box sections.
Under tile heating installation.

Business

Customer service.
Internet marketing.
Preparing and presenting an estimate or quotation.
Invoicing.
Accountancy and basic bookkeeping.
Advertising.
Business marketing.
Business planning.
Business registration.

Business insurance.
Public liability insurance.
Business start-up agencies.
Tax and NI.
Gaining CSCS card holder status.
Business stationery.
Vehicle graphics.
Trade suppliers.
Trade associations.
Trade journals.