15 day Property maintenance course
 

15-Day property Maintenance Course

For individuals looking to complete a range of tasks around the house while greatly reducing the cost of hiring tradespeople, this course is perfect. Additionally, it will give people interested in a career in property maintenance the skills they require.

The following subjects are covered in this 15-day course, which combines several of our shorter home maintenance courses:

 

4 days of Bricklaying and Concreting:

 

· Introduction to tools and materials

· Cutting bricks and jointing brickwork

· Building a corner in brickwork, use of gauge rods

· Datum pegs, keeping a build level.

· Garden walls, cavity walls and retaining walls.

· Laying bricks to the line and positioning DPC and wall tiles

· Building a barbecue

· Knowledge in the different types of foundations

 

4 days of Plastering:

 

· Introduction to tools and materials

· Undercoat plastering

· Dots and screeds

· Corner beads

· External finishes

· Rendering

· Preparation for finish coat plaster

· Skim coat plaster - application and finishing

· Plasterboard repairs

 

3 days of Carpentry and Joinery:

 

· Introduction to hand tools, maintaining, sharpening

and care of tools

· Different types of carpentry joint’s

· Yale and Mortise locks

· Door linings

· Hanging doors

· Architraves

· Stud partition

· Water resistant flooring

· 18mm chip board flooring

· Skirting Boards

· Power Tools

 

4 days of Painting and Decorating:

 

· Introduction to tools and materials

· Hand skills for painting

· Preparation of walls and ceiling

· Fillers and types of emulsions

· Preparation and undercoating of woodwork.

· Working with different types of paint

· Hanging wallpaper