WORK ASPECTS
KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING
A Wall and Flooring Tiler will know and perceive
SKILL
A Wall and Flooring Tiler will have the ability to
Work Strategies
- The aim, traits and utility 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 secure atmosphere is maintained always. Observe security procedures, threat assessments, methodology statements and work directions
- Take advantage of environment friendly and efficient use of sources, time and supplies.
- Choose, use, keep 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 Prospects Wants
- Essentially the most applicable merchandise for every utility 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 answer buyer wants
- Put together for conferences with prospects and use applicable 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 Trade and
- Key elements and methods of labor applicable to totally different work environments i.e. primary workmanship for typical forms of constructing works.
- Determine totally different Trade sectors e.g. new building, social housing, residential, refurbishment, business, heritage
Constructing Strategies
- Completely different trade sectors equivalent to personal residential, new building, business and refurbishment
- Variations between trendy and conventional building strategies together with particular tiling methods
- These features of related British Requirements BS5385:1-5, BS8000:11and Codes of Apply, 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 methodology of preparation and fixing for the work atmosphere and product being put in
- Determine numerous forms of fixing and set up strategies from conventional render and screed to trendy adhesives and grouts
Product and Specification Info
- Relevance of technical information sheets, specs, CoSHH sheets, methodology statements and threat 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 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
- Components affecting tanking & tiling to moist room installations.
- Causes of widespread issues and the way these will be prevented
- Interpret technical product information, drawing, specs, producer’s info, Codes of Apply and British Requirements to make sure right preparation and set up of wall and ground tiles and related methods
- Interpret related well being and security necessities: methodology statements, threat assessments, CoSHH based on product and specification necessities
- Advise purchasers/prospects 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 info to keep away from errors
- Determine and rectify widespread preparation, fixing and set up issues
Preparation and Software and Elimination
- Distinction in forms of widespread preparation strategies, make-up and utility; screed, levelling compounds, priming and floor preparation relying on substrate
- Various kinds of sources, instruments and tools for making ready backgrounds and fixing wall and ground tiles
- Differing kinds & weight limits of wall & ground substrates
- Learn how to shield the work and its surrounding space from injury
- Various kinds of screeds/render & specialist preparations equivalent to waterproof tanking, decoupling and anti-fracture membranes
- The influence of Drying and Curing instances for numerous backgrounds
- Measuring and setting out procedures
- Learn how 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 ground tiles and equipment together with trim
- Various kinds of adhesives & grouts (i.e. cementitious/epoxy)
- Dealing with, measuring chopping methods and the way product kind/dimension impacts this
- Forms of below ground heating and the way and when to tile
- Determine substrate kind 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 atmosphere
- Choose appropriate hand and energy instruments and applicable Private Protecting Gear (PPE)
- Calculate required quantities of tiles, supplies and sources for the work necessities
- Put together wall and ground backgrounds (together with degree and plumb) utilizing primers, renders, levelling compounds and screeds
- Set-out for tiling wall and ground areas, making certain mall lower tiles are prevented so far as sensible and joint widths are constant, parallel and plumb.
- Measure, mark & lower tiles in accordance with work necessities to incorporate chopping round obstacles equivalent to 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 methods, 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 injury to adjoining finishes
