Apprenticeship training course
Craft painter and decorator (level 3)
To provide all aspects of painting and decorating.
- Qualification level
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3
Equivalent to A level. - Typical duration
- 18 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£12,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Craft painter and decorator
- Foreman painter and decorator
- Skills
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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.