CITY & GUILDS LEVEL 2 MULTI CRAFT (7 WEEKS)

This course covers all aspects of multi skills principles and practices and is intended for those that want to gain practical skills and knowledge in order to gain entry into the multi skills profession or develop their skills and knowledge as a professional handy man.

This is a professional trade qualification and you will gain a City & Guilds Certificate on completion of this course. The course covers the following units;

Carpentry: (2 week block period of training required)

Carpentry Training will be provided in:

•    Health & Safety and PPE
•    Use of hand tools such as chisels, planes etc.
•    Cutting basic joints
•    Cutting and fitting architraves and skirtings
•    Erecting a stud-wall
•    Fitting a door lining/frame
•    Hanging a door
•    Fixing floor joists and laying flooring

Carpentry Assessment will be undertaken in:

•    Developing Site Carpentry Skills
•    Developing Flooring Skills
•    Developing Partitioning Skills
•    Developing Hand Tool Maintenance Skills

Plumbing: (2 week block period of training required)

Plumbing Training will be provided in:

•    Health & Safety and PPE
•    Plumbing systems and fittings
•    Soldering techniques
•    Jointing, bending and pressure testing copper tube
•    Plumbing pipe work
•    Copper pipe work skills
•    Valves, taps, cisterns, and cylinders
•    Plastic Tube installation
•    Bathroom installation
•    Soil and waste pipes

Plumbing Assessment will be undertaken in:

•    Introducing rain water goods
•    Introducing pipework skills
•    Developing Pipework Skills
•    Developing Skills in Fitted Interiors
•    Expanding Pipework Skills

Bricklaying: (2 week block period of training required)

Bricklaying Training will be provided in:

•    Health & Safety and PPE
•    How to set out building lines
•    Brick and block work
•    How to ensure your walls are square and vertical
•    Build a corner, a pillar, a pier, a cavity wall
•    How to do pointing for face work
•    Demonstrate how to put in a damp course
•    Bricklaying bonds: English Bond – Flemish Bond – Stretcher Bond
•    Position lintels

Bricklaying Assessment will be undertaken in:

•    Developing Brickwork Skills
•    Developing Quoin Skills
•    Developing Blockwork Skills

Plastering & Tiling: (2 week block period of training required for Plastering, 1 week for Tiling)

Plastering Training will be provided in:

•    Health & Safety and PPE
•    To cut and fix plaster board to walls and ceilings
•    To tape standard and internal joints
•    To cut and fix angle beads around windows and reveals
•    To prepare surfaces before plastering using bonding plaster and finishing plaster, ensuring a flat finished surface ready for decorating
•    To mix plastering materials
•    To skim walls
•    To skim ceilings
•    To apply PVA adhesive Unibond to existing surfaces
•    Apply a scratch coat of render
•    Apply a top coat of render

Plastering Assessment will be undertaken in:

•    Introducing Finishing Skills
•    Developing Plastering Skills
•    Developing Rendering Skills
•    Introducing levelling in construction
•    Developing Tiling Skills

Tiling Training will be provided in:

•    Setting out your tiling work
•    Explaining all the different adhesives used for different surfaces
•    Demonstrating all the tools required
•    Cutting tiles using wet tile cutters, dry tile cutters, tile scribes, tile snips and tile saws
•    Explaining tiling involving Borders, Diamonds and Patterns
•    How to cut around windows and reveals
•    How to cope with tiling difficult areas such as uneven walls
•    How to tile angled ceilings and socket areas
•    How to tile splash-backs
•    How to tile around boxed in pipes

Tiling Assessment will be undertaken in:

•    Developing Tiling Skills

Painting & Decorating: (2 week block period of training required)

Painting & Decorating Training will be provided in:

•    Health & Safety and PPE
•    Correct use of tools and equipment used in this trade
•    Preparation of surfaces ready for painting
•    Repairing imperfections in walls and wood ready for painting
•    Application of water based products such as primers, undercoats, emulsion and eggshell using  brushes and rollers
•    Application of oil based products
•    Cutting around obstructions, openings, fittings such as radiators, windows, sockets and switches
•    How to use a roller effectively
•    Cutting, pasting and hanging wallpaper

Painting & Decorating Assessment will be undertaken in:

•    Developing Paint Finishing Skills
•    Developing Surface Preparation Skills
•    Developing Papering Skills

NEXT STEPS

On completion of the course we follow up with our students on their next step. Our dedicated career advisors go through all the options that are available to the individual candidate for career development. We assess and help to identify further training needs if relevant or assist them to find work. Our next step activities include but are not limited to;

• Help with writing their CV
• Interviewing tips and practice
• Training candidates on how to use electronic media for work search activities
• Referrals and Introductions to partner and associate companies for work trails, apprenticeships and employment
• Identifying and enrolling candidates on relevant courses top further improve employability skills
• Providing free introduction courses to building enterprises and setting up small businesses
• Introducing relevant candidates to partner and associate companies for further enterprise assistance and funding