Apprenticeship training course
Plasterer (level 2)
Preparing walls and ceilings for decoration and finishing.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 36 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£10,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Materials: Identify and prepare surfaces for plastering. Determine quantities and ratios of materials. Move, handle and store materials.
- Safe Working: Adhere to relevant health and safety legislation, codes of practice and apply safe working practices, including when working at heights.
- Working environment: Select appropriate tools, equipment, materials and components where necessary. Interpret and use drawings and specifications including BIM/CAD. Maintain a clean working area.
- Fixing and jointing plasterboard: Construct metal framed partitions, wall linings and openings in preparation for boarding. Mechanically install plasterboard to timber and lightweight metal framing. Direct bond plasterboard to masonry. Use hand applied and machine applied tape and jointing systems.
- Plastering: Apply solid plastering systems using one and two coat plastering to internal surfaces.
- In-situ moulds: Construct running moulds to match existing moulding design, set up running rules and plaster screeds, run in-situ moulding work including coring out using bracketing on solid backgrounds. Assemble benches, run short breaks and form stop ends, make good internal and external mitres and returned ends.
- Running moulds: Construct positive or negative running moulds. Set down running rules correctly. Run reverse moulds and prepare for casting. Run panel moulds. Take casts from reverse moulds.
- Repairing existing plaster: Renovate and restore internal and external effected surfaces back to original state.
- Install cast mouldings: Install cornice mouldings including forming internal and external mitred angles.
- Plastering: Apply three coat plastering, including heritage lime mortars and finishes, and machine applied plaster; sealings and bonding agents, re-instate plastering systems after chemical damp proof injection.
- Rendering: Apply traditional, modern and machine applied render systems including colour rendering; run in situ moulding work in sand and cement.
- Ancillary works: Fix beads and trims, use additives and form mechanical keys as required, mechanically fix EML, rib lath and timber lath.
- Casting: Cast from reverse moulds in fibrous plaster, GRG and GRC (glass fibre reinforced cement) Fixing cast mouldings: install cast mouldings (e g enriched cornice, arches, columns, pilasters, corbels, ceiling centre and beam casing.
Full information on Plasterer (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.