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Want to get into tiling? We have both 5-day and 10-day Level 1 courses for that

With so many tiling courses shown on our site here at YTA, it’s understandable that you may feel a little overwhelmed by the choice on offer. However, if you wish to get into this line of work seriously, you could scarcely hope for a better starting point than our five-day and 10-day Level 1 courses.

There are several reasons for that. First of all, you can take on one of these tiling courses even if you do not yet possess any tiling knowledge. Secondly, these courses really can take you on the full journey to a new tiling career, so that you won’t have to worry about enrolling anywhere else.

So, why might you enrol on our five-day course?

The full name of our five-day Level 1 tiling course is the Cskills Tiling Level 1 Unit Course, which draws attention to an important aspect: it gives you a unit accreditation certificate on completion. This means if you are looking to obtain a full Level 1 qualification, you will need to sign up for our 10-day course, as we will provide more details on in a moment.

The five-day course will enable you to obtain one of two units of accreditation: the NOCN Cskills Level 1 in wall tiling or the NOCN Cskills Level 1 in floor tiling.

With such key tiling tasks as the setting out of walls and floors, surface preparation, the tiling of a kitchen splashback, bathroom wall and floor and cutting around obstacles all covered by this course, you can be confident of leaving us with sufficient knowledge to begin your tiling career in earnest.

Alternatively, join us for 10 days of learning

Why accept only going part of the route to a full Level 1 qualification in tiling? This is the question so many of those comparing tiling courses at YTA end up asking themselves, culminating in their decision to book our 10-day course.

The full qualification in question that you obtain when you complete this course will be the NOCN Cskills Level 1 Certificate in Wall and Floor Tiling. To pass, you will need to be trained and assessed across no fewer than four NOCN Cskills Level 1 units, relating to health and safety in construction trades, effective communication in construction trades, wall tiling and floor tiling.

By obtaining this qualification, you will be able to show prospective employers or customers a strong level of competence as a tiling professional from the very onset of your career in this rewarding trade.

Note too that for convenience, you are able to split this course into two separate weeks, at no extra cost compared to if you had taken on the 10-day course in one go. This gives you even fewer excuses for not committing to the complete course, provided that your other practical and financial circumstances enable you to do so.

It also couldn’t be easier to get in touch with us

Call 01274 682199 to book any of our renowned tiling courses, or to ask the questions to which you may require answers before purchasing. We would be delighted to assist you in making your desired next career step a reality!

 

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Turn to YTA for your fast-track route to a site carpentry NVQ Level 2 qualification

Provided that you are already an experienced joiner who has spent at least five years in your trade, you don’t have to invest a great amount of time and money into acquiring an NVQ Level 2. In fact, you can simply book our Cskills Awards Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Wood Occupations (Construction) – Site Carpentry QUA900 via the one-day Experienced Worker Practical Assessment (EWPA) route.

Yes, you read that correctly; you really do only need to spend a single day at our training and assessment training centre if you arrive ready to start at 7:30am. We will then be able to complete the entire NVQ carpentry assessment before finishing the day at about 4pm.

What is the EWPA route?

It isn’t only our carpentry and joinery NVQ Level 2 courses for which the EWPA pathway is an option. Indeed, this NVQ assessment route was devised so that seasoned workers could achieve their NVQ Level 2 in their relevant trade by simply undergoing a practical assessment, and we also have EWPAs available in such fields as wall and floor tiling, bricklaying and plastering.

This route enables you to have the skills that you have gained in your trade over the years assessed in a single day, or no longer than two days if required. As long as you pass this assessment, you will then have the qualification that you need to attain the blue skilled worker CSCS card.

We’ll ensure that you can get on with your professional life

With its three mandatory units covering general workplace safety, efficient work practices and the movement and handling of resources, together with any three of a series of other units addressing such subjects as the installation of components and the maintenance of non-structural carpentry work, our Site Carpentry QUA900 EWPA route is an extensive, but swift one.

All parts of the NVQ – including witness testimonies, the practical assessment, professional discussion and direct questioning – must be completed to the necessary standard if you are to attain this qualification. But once you have, you will be able to immediately get back on site earning a wage.

In fact, if you aren’t able to get on site right now and are therefore out of work, we aim to complete this assessment within two weeks from when you first get in touch with us. Once you have paid your deposit for this course, we can get you registered and you will be able to apply for and gain a temporary card lasting for six months until you complete the EWPA.

We hold NVQ EWPAs every week, even over weekends – so why wait any longer to make this next crucial step in your carpentry career? We’re among the UK’s most trusted training centres for carpentry & joinery NVQ Level 2 courses – so don’t hesitate to call our professional and friendly team today on 01274 682199, or to complete and submit our simple contact form.

 

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You could have a level 1 plumbing qualification after just five days at our training centre

If you’ve long been thinking about enrolling on an intensive plumbing course in the UK – perhaps as an existing tradesperson such as a plasterer, joiner or tiler who is interested in also performing plumbing tasks, or even if you are a complete beginner – YTA is no less than one of the leading training centres for precisely this type of course.

More specifically, we offer a five-day intensive plumbing course that culminates in a nationally recognised qualification, namely the Level 1 Award in Preparation for Plumbing Operations.

Why might this course interest you in the first place?

As we touched on above, you might embark on this course as a total beginner with no previous experience, or instead as an existing professional in another trade like kitchen fitting, joinery or plastering.

This course is suitable for both groups, so whether you simply wish to be able to confidently take on plumbing jobs around the home, or are eager to expand your professional capabilities to gain more work and income, you are likely to appreciate this very ‘hands-on’ training route.

YTA Plumbing course heating system

So, what can you expect as a student on this course?

The course commences on Monday, and will see you initially working with and using 15mm and 22mm copper pipe and fixings, in addition to fitting isolation valves and pipe bending. A variety of fittings and tools will be used on this first day in the production of pipework.

The next day, you will be tasked with planning and installing a bathroom, encompassing such elements as the bath, taps, toilet, basin and all wastes; the bathroom will also be tested up to mains working pressure, and if any leaks become evident, they will need to be fixed.

Continuing to Wednesday, preceding the installation of the toilet will be a full strip down and explanation of internal cistern fittings and different types of flush mechanisms. Thursday, meanwhile, will be the day on which you install a small two-radiator system – or three radiators, should your skills and timeframe allow for this. This radiator system will also need to be filled up to pressure, and the air bled out.

Finally, on Friday, you will be required to plumb up a kitchen sink and hot and cold pipework. You’ll also get your first ‘job’ on this last day of the course – the task of adding a garden tap to your completed kitchen pipework.

The above, however, is just a quick summary of what is contained in this five-day intensive plumbing course in the UK; you’ll find the full details on our relevant page for this course. A second week is available making the course into a 10 day ‘hands on’ intensive course where you will train on domestic hot water systems as shown in the photo above.

Our options for the plumbing course are:

  • 5 day intensive plumbing course = £450
  • 10 day intensive plumbing course = £900
  • ‘Bolt on’ the level 1 Award in Plumbing Operations onto either of the above for an additional £300

Enquire to the YTA team for everything you’ll need to know

Do you have any lingering questions about this intensive plumbing course in the UK before you decide whether or not to book? If so, you are always welcome to ask our team; don’t hesitate to call us at our Bradford training centre on 01274 682199.

 

 

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Obtain your bricklaying Level 2 NVQ diploma in just one day via the EWPA route

Have you already spent five years or more as a bricklayer, but would like to upgrade your qualifications? If so, our bricklaying NVQ Level 2 courses here at YTA may be of great interest to you – or to be more specific, the Experienced Worker Practical Assessment (EWPA) option that enables you to acquire a diploma in your trade through practical assessment.

What do we mean by “practical assessment”? Well, the process is all about having your existing skills evaluated through professional discussion, witness statements and, of course, having your capabilities practically assessed by an NVQ assessor.

If you are judged to be of the right standard, you will then be sent your certificate, which you will be able to use to apply for the blue skilled worker CSCS card enabling you to get on-site as a bricklayer.

What units will you need to complete as part of this course?

There are five mandatory units that constitute the bricklaying NVQ Level 2 course, covering such subjects as conforming to general workplace safety, conforming to efficient work practices, moving and handling resources, erecting masonry structures, and setting out masonry structures.

You will also, however, be expected to complete an additional optional unit, of which there is a wide range to choose from. The unit that you select here may relate to erecting masonry cladding, placing and finishing non-specialist concrete, installing drainage or any of the variety of other specialities in bricklaying.

A thorough assessment process to ensure your suitability

There are various elements of the process of obtaining this diploma, including witness testimonies, practical assessment, professional discussion and direct questioning. It’s all designed to ascertain whether you possess sufficient ability and experience to place you alongside anyone else undertaking and passing bricklaying NVQ Level 2 courses.

If, at the end of your day with us at our NVQ assessment centre, you are judged to have achieved the certificate, well done! Remember that it could be less than two weeks between you making your first contact with us and your assessment being completed, so you could be back on site, earning a wage with your blue card, sooner than you think.

Call the YTA team, then, on 01274 682199, to learn more about place availability and to make your booking for an EWPA on a day of the week to suit you – as well as, of course, to ask any questions that you may have about this course route before committing.

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Sign up for one of our intensive plastering courses to significantly bolster your skills and knowledge

Plastering is a trade that interests all kinds of people, for all kinds of reasons. Of course, not everyone who joins us here at YTA for one of our five-day or 10-day intensive plastering courses necessarily seeks to practise plastering as a trade at all – they may simply be enthusiastic DIYers. But others are existing tradespeople wishing to extend their skills, and some are complete beginners who wish to take the first step to a career as a professional plasterer.

Sure enough, if you wish to take on one of our intensive plastering courses, whether for five or 10 days, you don’t need to have any previous experience at all. However, it would be quite wrong to think that you couldn’t possibly learn much in such a short time-span!

After all, when you choose YTA, you’ll be able to get to grips with plastering in a large training bay of your very own, not needing to share with anyone. What’s more, as we only have five of these training bays, we only take on this many students for each running of the course, so you’ll be able to look forward to a high standard of teaching thanks to a low student to teacher/trainer ratio.

But what will you actually learn on a course with us?

As for the actual content of these intensive plastering courses, it’s fair to say that you’ll be covering some serious ground with us!

Even if you go for ‘just’ the five-day course, for instance, you’ll be able to board and prepare your training bay – or ‘room’ – before plastering a ceiling for the first time. This will be followed by plastering walls, even including a window to trim up to. You’ll then be taught how to over-skim previous work, repair plastering and ‘feather in’ – this being an important technique for larger walls.

Even more awaits you, however, if you enrol on our 10-day course. This will entail the course going into a second week, with the chance to plaster the full wall and ceilings in your training bay as a complete project, instead of the two of them being treated as separate tasks. For this, the traditional method of plastering onto block work (bay and screed) will be used, instead of board fixing (dot and dab).

All of this is just some of what our training can give you

The above isn’t even everything that you’ll receive for your time and effort when you enrol on one of our intensive plastering courses, with the likes of important health and safety and business start-up information also being included. All in all, you could hardly choose a better way to equip yourself with a clear practical and theoretical understanding of plastering in the space of just a few days.

For more in-depth information about our five-day or 10-day intensive plastering course, simply browse our relevant course pages online. You’re also welcome to call the YTA team, on 01274 682199, if you have any questions that you would like to have answered before you book.

Take that first big step to a rewarding new life as a plasterer, by reserving your place on an intensive plastering course with YTA today!

 

 

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How much could we teach you about tiling in just five days?

You might not have thought that within just one or two work weeks, you could go from being a complete newcomer to the world of tiling, to someone with sufficient skills, information and confidence to actually begin tiling professionally. Yet, this is precisely what the five-day tiling intensive courses that we are presently offering here at YTA can make possible for you.

We run two five-day courses, in fact – the Intensive Wall and Floor Tiling Course and the Non-Accredited Advanced Tiling Course – that can be taken separately one after the other, or as a whole when you enrol on our 10-day Intensive ‘Ready for Anything’ Tiling Course.

Barely a week needed to become a capable tiler

Let’s start from the (very) beginning, with our 5-day Intensive Wall and Floor Tiling Course. This is the perfect route to take to a professional tiling career if you have never previously done tiling, but it’s also suitable for enthusiastic DIYers and other tradespeople who wish to become tilers.

Regardless, you can expect to cover a serious amount of territory over the five days of this course, starting on Monday with health and safety, followed by the preparation of surfaces and the cutting of tiles with a tile cutter, moving onto tiling a kitchen and grouting before the end of the day.

The course then continues on Tuesday with the polishing off of the previous day’s work and silicone sealing to complete the tiled kitchen. Students of the course will then set out and tile to and around windows, in addition to tiling down to the floor on a large area.

Over the final three days of the course, you will learn such tasks as marking and cutting tiles around obstacles, tiling a bathroom, drilling holes in tiles, full measuring and quoting, and preparing, setting out and tiling the bathroom floor.

But there’s so much more that you can train in…

As aforementioned, the above is merely a summary of what our beginners’ five-day intensive tiling course will teach you. It is just one of our tiling intensive courses, with the second five-day course encompassing such aspects as tiling with diamond inserts, wet rooms, tanking, plunge cutting and naturals, including cutting and sealing.

Finally, of course, there is our 10-day course that brings together both of these weeks.

You can enquire about any of our tiling intensive courses here at YTA by calling 01274 682199 or 07400 922788 or emailing info@ytatraining.com. We would be delighted to answer any questions that you may have, and you are also welcome to book a visit to our training centre so that you can take a look around and chat to current students before committing to a course with us.