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 acceptable 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
- Establish and minimise hazards and dangers within the office, making certain a secure atmosphere is maintained always. Comply with security procedures, danger 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 flooring 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
Establish and Reply to Clients Wants
- Essentially the most acceptable merchandise for every software and related components influencing choice in several settings
- Several types 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 acceptable listening and questioning methods when discussing product choice
- Overview and test that the specification meets the necessities of the shopper in-line with trade normal and aesthetic necessities
- Interpret drawings, high quality requirements and specs
Development Business and
- Key components and techniques of labor acceptable to completely different work environments i.e. primary workmanship for standard sorts of constructing works.
- Establish completely different Business sectors e.g. new building, social housing, residential, refurbishment, business, heritage
Constructing Strategies
- Completely different trade sectors reminiscent of non-public residential, new building, business and refurbishment
- Variations between fashionable and conventional building strategies together with particular tiling methods
- These facets of related British Requirements BS5385:1-5, BS8000:11and Codes of Apply, which apply on to their work and substrates
- Establish completely different constructing strategies e.g. metal body, strengthened concrete body, conventional (strong wall and cavity wall) timber body
- Use the suitable technique of preparation and fixing for the work atmosphere and product being put in
- Establish varied sorts of fixing and set up strategies from conventional render and screed to fashionable adhesives and grouts
Product and Specification Info
- Relevance of technical information sheets, specs, CoSHH sheets, technique statements and danger assessments
- Variations between product varieties, their traits, qualities, makes use of, sustainability and limitations
- The explanations for choosing and making ready the suitable kind of background; wall and flooring boards, screed, render and concrete to obtain wall and flooring tiling
- The implications that may come up from the set up and use of below flooring heating
- Components affecting tanking & tiling to moist room installations.
- Causes of frequent issues and the way these might be prevented
- Interpret technical product information, drawing, specs, producer’s data, Codes of Apply and British Requirements to make sure appropriate preparation and set up of wall and flooring tiles and related techniques
- Interpret related well being and security necessities: technique statements, danger assessments, CoSHH in response to product and specification necessities
- Advise shoppers/clients on the differing types and sizes of wall and flooring 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
- Establish and rectify frequent preparation, fixing and set up issues
Preparation and Software and Elimination
- Distinction in sorts of frequent preparation strategies, make-up and software; screed, levelling compounds, priming and floor preparation relying on substrate
- Several types of sources, instruments and tools for making ready backgrounds and fixing wall and flooring tiles
- Differing types & weight limits of wall & flooring substrates
- The way to defend the work and its surrounding space from harm
- Several types of screeds/render & specialist preparations reminiscent of waterproof tanking, decoupling and anti-fracture membranes
- The impression of Drying and Curing instances for varied backgrounds
- Measuring and setting out procedures
- The way to estimate and calculate required quantities of tiles, supplies and sources together with permitting for wastage
- Elimination and Set up methods and strategies (together with remedial works) for eradicating and fixing various kinds of wall and flooring tiles and equipment together with trim
- Several types of adhesives & grouts (i.e. cementitious/epoxy)
- Dealing with, measuring reducing methods and the way product kind/measurement impacts this
- Kinds of below flooring heating and the way and when to tile
- Establish substrate kind and situation to find out acceptable preparation strategies/merchandise
- Choose supplies together with: wall and flooring tiles, primers, levelling compounds, screeds, adhesives, grouts, trims and ancillaries appropriate for the substrates, tile merchandise and set up atmosphere
- Choose appropriate hand and energy instruments and acceptable Private Protecting Gear (PPE)
- Calculate required quantities of tiles, supplies and sources for the work necessities
- Put together wall and flooring backgrounds (together with degree and plumb) utilizing primers, renders, levelling compounds and screeds
- Set-out for tiling wall and flooring areas, making certain mall minimize tiles are averted so far as sensible and joint widths are constant, parallel and plumb.
- Measure, mark & minimize tiles in accordance with work necessities to incorporate reducing round obstacles reminiscent of pipes, sockets and drains
- Apply adhesives and repair tiles to wall and flooring surfaces
- Grout and end tiles to wall and flooring areas
- Set up tanking techniques, decoupling membranes and electrical under-tile heating
- Undertake remedial work in accordance with specification.
- Be capable to take away and substitute particular person broken tiles with out inflicting harm to adjoining finishes
