Painting and Decorating
Our Painting & Decorating Department can help you to...
- Learn to fill, prime & undercoat
- Become skilled with emulsion, gloss & eggshell
- Learn how to do special effects
- Get Working at Heights, Manual Handling & Emergency First Aid qualifications
- An NVQ L2 for trainees who prove themselves
- No prior experience is necessary as full training is given
Our Programme
Our Level 1 course lasts 3 months. Level 2 is a further 3-month placement. Please read the ‘Length of Stay’ section on our Referrals page for more information.
Level 1 is about learning the basics of the trade and gaining work experience.
Level 2 is about Increasing your work experience and skill level.
By the end of Level 2, trainees will usually have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire:
- CSCS
- Driving Theory
- Emergency First Aid
- Manual handling
- Working at Heights
- Health & Safety
Examples of dept skills you can learn:
- Types and use of tools, brushes and paints
- Prep work
- Filling
- Priming
- Undercoating
- Using gloss, eggshell & oil-based paints
- Using emulsion on walls & ceilings
- Keeping and leaving work area tidy and clean
For trainees that prove themselves and for whom it is deemed appropriate, there may be opportunities to extend the placement and achieve a deeper level of work experience and skill.
Trainees might get the opportunity to work toward or achieve some of the following:
- Driving practical
- Painting and Decorating NVQ
Painting Department Highlights
#painting and decorating department hard at work redecorating one of our flats
#painting a door ready for installation for one of the many `live` jobs for the buildings on our 500 acre estate
Learning to wallpaper in our #painting department
Prepping the wood in #painting and decorating
Glossing a door in our #painting and decorating dept, where young people aged 16 to 21 can gain amazing skills, qualifications and learn a trade
Shiny new ladders for #painting and decorating department
Building a tower while doing a Working at Heights course. One of the many certificates you can get at www.cameliabotnar.com if you do #carpentry #building #painting and decorating #estate maintenance #metalwork or #horticulture
