It's my last day at Gold Trowel North where I have been learning the basics of venetian plaster and it is most definitely been an eye opener into the venetian plaster industry. Today is all about buffing and polishing and applying waxes and polishes to our finishes and generally making our sample boards shine and look stunning.... well thats the plan. The first sample board I will be polishing … [Read more...]
Venetian Plaster Training Day #4
Its thursday already and I am feeling the strain of the early starts and the drive from Macclesfield to Bury, so tonight I am treating myself to a night in a hotel right near the training school and it was pretty cheap as well which is even better as the TPF coffers are running desperately low this year. So today I was going to finish up my sample boards ready for fridays buffing session and … [Read more...]
Venetian Plaster Training Day #3
I was once again in bury today bright and early but I am now starting to feel tired, the commute in now is getting tiresome but we are nearly at the end of the week. Today was a day where we are going to be working on our sample boards and start to see some of the finishes come together which is good. I learnt something to day that everything we are doing is a Marmorino finish as its the type … [Read more...]
Venetian Plaster Training Day #2
Today was the first proper day of venetian plastering, yesterday was great but we spent a lot of the time getting settled and today was the day we really got cracking. The first task was to get the end wall base coated and this was just a warm up for the rest of the day just to get you in to the swing of things. We use Veneziano Medio as a base coat and put it on in small random strokes. It is … [Read more...]
Venetian Plastering Training Day #1
Venetian plastering has always been on my list of skill sets that I wanted to learn and this week I have the pleasure of bing the first group of plasterers to go through the new Gold Trowel training facility in the north of England in Bury. I live so far south that if I was any souther, I would get wet feet so the journey up north was a long one but my sister is this way, so I get to stop at her … [Read more...]
Weston College Student Discovers Creative Talent In 16th Century Plastering Skill And Launches New Business
A WESTON College student who trained in plastering after being made redundant has launched his own business and discovered a 16TH Century creative outlet. Dan Garner, 32, has just completed his Level 2 Plastering Diploma at the College’s Construction and Engineering Centre of Excellence (CECE), It was there that lecturers found his natural ability with the 500-year-old skill of Pargetting … [Read more...]
Geason The External Wall Insulation Training Provider
The External Wall Insulation sector is still growing and is very strong within the United Kingdom and I know from reading on The Plasterers Forum® that there are a lot of companies out there that are very busy doing this specialist area within our ever expanding plastering trade. So who are Geason? Geason are the largest External Wall Insulation (EWI) training provider in the UK and positioned … [Read more...]
Isover Launches New Installer Training Course
Leading insulation provider, Saint-Gobain Isover, has launched a new training course to help contractors, dry-liners and plasterers learn about its advanced Optima Internal Wall Insulation (IWI) system. Participants will be able to gain hands-on experience in installing the solution, helping them provide energy saving solutions for customers with solid wall properties. Aimed at existing IWI … [Read more...]
Wallcrete Stone Effect Training Day 18th June
Stone effect rendering has been a hot topic on The Plasterers Forum since 2009, and it has come on leaps and bounds since then with PICS being the main supplier of materials and training in the UK. The instructor of the wallcrete training is The Plasterers Forum® very own moderator WarriorUpNorth or Paul Clamp as we all know him. Stone effect rendering is a method of making render look like … [Read more...]
Skillbuild Sussex Coast College Hastings 2014
I take every opportunity to get out of the office and get to see people plastering whether they are time served or fresh to the trade, and the SkillBuild events are just the ticket as you get to see the best of both worlds. I get the pleasure of seeing plasterers that are still learning the trade, and I get to meet the people who have trained them so, all in all, its always worth the day … [Read more...]
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