WORK ASPECTS
KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING
A Wall and Ground Tiler will know and perceive
SKILL
A Wall and Ground Tiler will be capable of
Work Strategies
- The aim, traits and software of supplies, instruments and tools
- Secure dealing with, storage and safety of supplies and tools and work space
- Secure and environment friendly working strategies and applicable work necessities in accordance with Well being and Security laws
- Strategies and methods for the set up of porcelain, stone, conglomerate and mosaics in accordance with British Requirements
- Determine and minimise hazards and dangers within the office, making certain a protected setting is maintained always. Observe security procedures, threat assessments, technique statements and work directions
- Take advantage of environment friendly and efficient use of sources, time and supplies.
- Choose, use, preserve and retailer tiling instruments and tools
- Put together backgrounds, set up wall and ground tiles and produce completed work that conforms to British Requirements BS5385:1-5 and BS8000:11.
- Report accidents or incidents within the office in accordance with organisational and legislative necessities
Determine and Reply to Clients Wants
- Probably the most applicable merchandise for every software and related elements influencing choice in several settings
- Various kinds of communication and understanding of buyer necessities to incorporate formal and casual strategies with the flexibility to reply to buyer wants
- Put together for conferences with clients and use applicable listening and questioning methods when discussing product choice
- Assessment and examine that the specification meets the necessities of the shopper in-line with business commonplace and aesthetic necessities
- Interpret drawings, high quality requirements and specs
Development Business and
- Key elements and techniques of labor applicable to totally different work environments i.e. primary workmanship for standard sorts of constructing works.
- Determine totally different Business sectors e.g. new development, social housing, residential, refurbishment, industrial, heritage
Constructing Strategies
- Totally different business sectors resembling personal residential, new development, industrial and refurbishment
- Variations between fashionable and conventional development strategies together with particular tiling methods
- These points of related British Requirements BS5385:1-5, BS8000:11and Codes of Follow, which apply on to their work and substrates
- Determine totally different constructing strategies e.g. metal body, strengthened concrete body, conventional (stable wall and cavity wall) timber body
- Use the suitable technique of preparation and fixing for the work setting and product being put in
- Determine numerous sorts of fixing and set up strategies from conventional render and screed to fashionable adhesives and grouts
Product and Specification Data
- Relevance of technical information sheets, specs, CoSHH sheets, technique statements and threat assessments
- Variations between product sorts, their traits, qualities, makes use of, sustainability and limitations
- The explanations for choosing and getting ready the suitable sort of background; wall and ground boards, screed, render and concrete to obtain wall and ground tiling
- The implications that may come up from the set up and use of below ground heating
- Elements affecting tanking & tiling to moist room installations.
- Causes of widespread issues and the way these could be prevented
- Interpret technical product information, drawing, specs, producer’s data, Codes of Follow and British Requirements to make sure appropriate preparation and set up of wall and ground tiles and related techniques
- Interpret related well being and security necessities: technique statements, threat assessments, CoSHH in line with product and specification necessities
- Advise shoppers/clients on the different sorts and sizes of wall and ground tiles, and ancillary merchandise and the supplies they’re manufactured from e.g. ceramic, porcelain, stone, plastic
- Revert to Producers’ product data to keep away from errors
- Determine and rectify widespread preparation, fixing and set up issues
Preparation and Software and Removing
- Distinction in sorts of widespread preparation strategies, make-up and software; screed, levelling compounds, priming and floor preparation relying on substrate
- Various kinds of sources, instruments and tools for getting ready backgrounds and fixing wall and ground tiles
- Differing types & weight limits of wall & ground substrates
- Easy methods to shield the work and its surrounding space from injury
- Various kinds of screeds/render & specialist preparations resembling waterproof tanking, decoupling and anti-fracture membranes
- The affect of Drying and Curing occasions for numerous backgrounds
- Measuring and setting out procedures
- Easy methods to estimate and calculate required quantities of tiles, supplies and sources together with permitting for wastage
- Removing and Set up methods and strategies (together with remedial works) for eradicating and fixing several types of wall and ground tiles and equipment together with trim
- Various kinds of adhesives & grouts (i.e. cementitious/epoxy)
- Dealing with, measuring slicing methods and the way product sort/measurement impacts this
- Forms of below ground heating and the way and when to tile
- Determine substrate sort and situation to find out applicable preparation strategies/merchandise
- Choose supplies together with: wall and ground tiles, primers, levelling compounds, screeds, adhesives, grouts, trims and ancillaries appropriate for the substrates, tile merchandise and set up setting
- Choose appropriate hand and energy instruments and applicable Private Protecting Tools (PPE)
- Calculate required quantities of tiles, supplies and sources for the work necessities
- Put together wall and ground backgrounds (together with stage and plumb) utilizing primers, renders, levelling compounds and screeds
- Set-out for tiling wall and ground areas, making certain mall lower tiles are averted so far as sensible and joint widths are constant, parallel and plumb.
- Measure, mark & lower tiles in accordance with work necessities to incorporate slicing round obstacles resembling pipes, sockets and drains
- Apply adhesives and repair tiles to wall and ground surfaces
- Grout and end tiles to wall and ground areas
- Set up tanking techniques, decoupling membranes and electrical under-tile heating
- Undertake remedial work in accordance with specification.
- Have the ability to take away and exchange particular person broken tiles with out inflicting injury to adjoining finishes