The short answer to this question is, of course, “yes”. However, it is essential to understand what is offered by a particular course of study you may be considering, and how far it will take you on your journey to working on-site as a wall and floor tiler.
It is a logical path to first complete a well-respected beginner tiling course – such as our five-day intensive tiling course, which is suitable for complete novices with no previous experience – before you take on a suitable advanced course.
Or why not just combine a beginner and advanced tiling course in the UK by completing two five-day courses, one after the other? That’s what our NOCN Cskills 10-day Level 1 Accredited Wall and Floor Tiling course effectively enables you to do.
Get your beginner and advanced tiling training done in one go!
If you have already been browsing the YTA website in search of tiling training options, you will be aware that along with the aforementioned five-day beginner course, we make available a five-day intensive advanced course.
Our 10-day Level 1 course combines these two training avenues, while providing Cskills Level 1 assessments.
As a learner on this course, you will be trained and assessed in two NOCN Cskills Level 1 units: Tiling a Wall with Decorative Features (Square Tiles) and Tiling a Floor with Obstacles. Achieving both these units will give you six credits at Level 1, and a Cskills ‘Skills for Tiling’ unit accreditation certificate.
Your achievement of these units will show to potential employers or customers that you are competent to this level as a tiler. It can serve as a strong foundation for a tiling career, particularly when you bear in mind the other content that we provide on this course in relation to starting out in business, marketing, insurance, tax, and progression to other training.
What aspects of tiling will you get to grips with on this course?
You can learn more about the core content of this 10-day combined beginner and advanced tiling course on the relevant page of our website.
To summarise, though, you can expect health and safety to be the first topic of instruction on the opening Monday of the course, before you proceed to the preparation of surfaces and the setting-out of kitchen tiling.
As the course’s first week continues, you can expect to carry out such tasks as cutting tiles, polishing, silicone sealing, marking and cutting tiles around obstacles, battening out, drilling holes in tiles, and full measuring and quoting.
Moving into the Monday of the course’s second week, you can look forward to… well, kitchen tiling again. This time, however, you will be tiling with a diamond splashback going up to the funnel. This day will also see you grouting the kitchen, followed by silicone and polishing on the Tuesday.
The remaining days of our 10-day combined beginner and advanced tiling course in the UK give the learner the chance to work with wet rooms, tanking, plunge cutting, and even the installation of underfloor heating, before tiling on top of it.
The last day of the course will then conclude with any final questions being answered, and the presentation of certificates.
If this tiling course interests you, what should your next steps be?
Don’t forget that you’re welcome to arrange a visit to our West Yorkshire training centre before you go as far as booking your place. Taking a tour will also present you with an opportunity to chat with students who are actually on the course. To discover more about this course, please don’t hesitate to contact the YTA team, whether by phone or email. Enrolling in this training route could yet turn out to be one of the best career decisions you ever make!