Cskills Level 1 Tiling course
You will gain one of the below units of accreditation
- NOCN Cskills Level 1 wall tiling
- NOCN Cskills Level 1 floor tiling
- Setting out walls and floors
- Surface preparation
- Tiling a kitchen splashback
- Tiling a bathroom wall
- Tiling a floor
- Cutting around obstacles
- Adhesives and grouts used and explained
This course is run most weeks
5 Day NOCN Cskills Level 1 unit Tiling Course
Price £600 inc vat
This is our 5 day wall and floor tiling course and you will undertake a wall tiling assessment or floor tiling assessment during the course. The certification you will receive upon meeting the criteria of the assessment will be either NOCN Cskills Level 1 Wall Tiling unit accreditation or NOCN Cskills Level 1 Floor Tiling unit accreditation.
Please note: This 5 day wall and floor tiling course is a UNIT ACCREDITATION certificate.
If you would like the FULL level 1 qualification: NOCN Cskills Level 1 Certificate in Wall and Floor Tiling then you will need the 10 day course.
NOCN Cskills (Construction Skills) formally CITB are the awarding body for construction NVQ’s so the Cskills brand and logos are well known within the construction industry. This unit of accreditation will show potential employers or customers your competence in your chosen trade.
If you choose to undertake a 2nd week of tiling at YTA (our advanced tiling course) you can add to your qualifications by completing another 3 units of accreditation and you will then receive the Level 1 Certificate in Wall and Floor tiling.
This is our intensive 5-day tiling course and is suitable for anyone who wishes to enter the tiling industry including other tradespersons wishing to enter the tiling industry or a complete beginner. We have no more than 4 tiling students per instructor to maximise your skills gain from the tiling course.
Prior knowledge of tiling is not needed to start the course as we can start straight from scratch or if you have some prior skills we can tailor the course to suit your needs.
Our target is to have you leave the tiling course armed with enough information and confidence to begin your new tiling career as a tiler and make a success of it, as many of our former students have. Our latest effectiveness poll returned 23 out of 30 students have set up and are enjoying their new self employed tiling careers.
Our tiling courses are unique in that we provide tiling study notes at the end of each day so you are in the right frame of mind for the following day’s tiling tasks. This will enable us to cover such an extensive amount of knowledge in a short space of time giving more hands on practical training.
It doesn’t take the place of tutored learning but it is always there as a reference after the course. Please feel free to book a visit and have a look around the center and chat to tiling students already on the tiling course!!
The tiling course will be conducted as if you were involved in a tiler’s working week going through all the stages of conducting everyday tiling projects.
By the end of the 5 day NOCN Cskills Level 1 unit course, you will have covered the following:-
- Health and Safety (tool safety and lifting technique)
- Surface Preparation (Priming, Ply boarding)
- Correct Tiling Adhesives and Tiling Grouts for differing situations
- Tiling Setting out (tiling a wall, tiling a floor, tiling around a window, tiling a kitchen and tiling a bathroom)
- Tiling on uneven walls
- Tiling techniques
- Use of tile trims
- Use of all Tiling tools and tilers FULL tool kit explained such as different tiling trowels and tile cutters and tile saws.
- Differing tile types and characteristics such as Ceramic and Porcelain. (Natural tiles covered on the advanced course or ‘2nd week of tiling’)
- All aspects of cutting and drilling tiles (pipe holes, curves, toilet wastes, plugs, door ways, bath sides and shower pipes)
- Silicone sealing and removal
- Tricks of the tiling trade throughout the tiling course
- Full Measuring and In-Depth Quoting based on your full size kitchens and bathrooms. Produce a tiling quote.
- Marketing Techniques for a tiling business
- Business cards, logo design and how to advertise
- Insurance, CIS scheme and CSCS cards
- Business Start Up
- NVQ Progression route – We are an NVQ centre and can advise on your next steps towards gaining an NVQ Level 2 in tiling.
Please feel free to arrange a visit prior to booking. Take the tour and have a chat to students actually on the course.
5 day Cskills Level 1 unit Course; the week in pictures
Monday & Tuesday Starting with health and safety and then moving on to preparing surfaces and setting out tiling of the kitchens. Cutting the tiles with a tile cutter and a tile wet cutter. Setting out for the feature.
Tiling the kitchen and grouting before the day is finished

Polishing off the previous days work and silicone sealing to complete the tiled kitchen.
Setting out and tiling to, and around windows and tiling down to the floor on a large area.
Wednesday Finish off previous days tiling and then talks on tile adhesive and grouts for different situations. Tiling tools and tiling tool kits explained. Battening of a bathroom including preparation and setting out. Start tiling your bathroom.

Thursday Complete tiling the bathroom ensuring cuts to the bath, bath ends and shower pipes are appropriate for customer inspection. Drilling holes in tiles. Full measuring and quoting, preparing quotes for customers.
Friday Preparing, setting out and tiling of the bathroom floor. Tiling Question sheet hand in time and answering of any further questions. Completion of hand out folders and finish with tiling course certificate presentation.
Extra content covered on every YTA course
- Tricks of the trade throughout the course
- Full Measuring and In-Depth Quoting based on your full size kitchens and bathrooms.
- Marketing Techniques
- Business cards, logo design and how to advertise
- Insurance, TAX, CIS scheme and CSCS cards
- Business Start Up
- Course progression and NVQ’s
Please feel free to arrange a visit prior to booking. Take the tour and have a chat to students actually on the course.
5 day Cskills level 1 unit tiling course = £600 inc vat. This course runs every week. Please contact the centre to book a place.
YTA is the UK’s premier training centre for construction training and assessment backed up by outstanding independent customer reviews on www.reveiws.co.uk (5 out of 5!)