Apprenticeship training course

Craft painter and decorator (level 3)

To provide all aspects of painting and decorating.

• Qualification level: 3 ; Equivalent to A level.
• Typical duration: 18 months
• Apprenticeship category: Construction and the built environment
• Maximum funding: £12,000 ; Maximum amount government will fund ; for apprenticeship training.
• Also known as:
  • Craft painter and decorator
  • Foreman painter and decorator
• Skills:
  Skills an apprentice will learn

  • Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Select and use safety control equipment including respiratory protective equipment (RPE), dust suppression (LEV) and personal protective equipment (PPE), when carrying out tasks, including high-volume low-pressure spraying tasks.
  • Apply environmental and sustainable principles in compliance with regulations, standards and systems. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
  • Apply and monitor safe systems of work and control measures. Risk and hazard identification and escalation.
  • Comply with painting and decorating industry standards, regulations and guidance.
  • Select, check and use working at height equipment for example steps, ladders, hop-ups, podiums and mobile towers.
  • Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, specifications, manufacturer’s safety data sheets and information and provide work instructions.
  • Calculate material and quantities: wallcoverings, coatings and sundries.
  • Calculate costs for materials and resources: For example, budgeting, labour and material costs, VAT, overheads, transport, access and equipment (hire or purchase) and profit.
  • Apply time management techniques and methods to tasks for self and others.
  • Apply team working principles.
  • Use and maintain hand tools and equipment.
  • Prepare, use and store power tools and equipment.
  • Maintain power tools and equipment, reporting and escalating defects and faults.
  • Prepare architecturally complex surfaces for coating using either chemical strippers, infra-red or abrasives.
  • Apply coatings, water-borne and or solvent-borne to a range of surfaces with architectural complexities: mouldings, decorative architectural features, panels and period windows.
  • Apply water-borne and solvent-borne coatings to spindles and handrails and doors with panels, mouldings, rails, stiles and muntins.
  • Apply broken colour paint effects including rag rolling and dragging.
  • Prepare internal building surfaces and surrounding work area for spray painting.
  • Check and set up spray painting equipment for example, airless, high-volume low-pressure, high-volume low-pressure turbines, high-volume low-pressure compressor or power rollers.
  • Select and prepare spray paint materials.
  • Apply water-borne coatings using spray painting equipment.
  • Clean, maintain and store spray painting equipment.
  • Prepare surfaces with architectural complexities to receive wallcoverings.
  • Prepare and apply specialist wallcoverings, for example non-standard widths, murals and digital prints.
  • Prepare and apply wallcovering to staircase, and behind radiator.
  • Prepare and apply wallcoverings (foundation papers and matching patterned finishing papers) to surfaces with architectural complexities, including ceilings.
  • Applies quality assurance procedures.
  • Manage time and tasks to meet deadlines.
  • Communicate verbally with others, apply painting and decorating terminology.
  • Manage construction phase plan (CPP) identifying and reporting risks to completion, communicating progress, resolving issues.
  • Communicate in writing with others, use painting and decorating terminology. For example, internal and external customers, colleagues.
  • Obtain, monitor and rotate stock and supplies.
  • Apply fault-finding and problem-solving techniques to common painting and decorating problems.
  • Apply the use of colour schemes, colour charts, notations, colour terms for identification and in different environments: domestic, commercial, health and education.
  • Apply the principles of colour schemes: mood boards, digital media.
  • Prepare external locations for spray painting.
  • Prepare internal building surfaces and surrounding work area for water-borne and solvent-borne coating.

Full information on Craft painter and decorator (level 3) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

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