The five-day Basic Site Skills course is ideal for small businesses who want to bring an apprentice or trainee up to speed on common tasks or experienced plumbers, heating engineers or domestic electrical installers looking to provide more complete customer service.

The course delivers practical site-based skills that enable tradespeople to complete all aspects of a job to a high-quality standard, including the finishing touches, such as tiling, plastering and carpentry.

Available as an add-on to Logic4training’s new entrants’ courses for plumbing & heating engineers, the course can also be taken by candidates already working in building services trades.

Trainees will develop competence in problem-solving alongside specific building and construction techniques, correct use of power tools and site safety.

Installers who complete the course will be able to ‘make good’ on any disruption caused by core business activities, such as lifting floorboards or damaging plasterwork, without the need for supporting trades.

Specific skills are taught by experts and include:

• Safe site working (locating cables and pipes)
• Building structures, materials, components and fixings
• Building regulations (altering, drilling, and notching structural areas)
• Safe use of hand and power tools
• Basic wall fixing methods and materials
• Basic carpentry (lifting floorboards, creating access hatches in floors and ceilings, drilling and notching timber joists)
• Chasing solid brick and block walls for pipes and cables
• Plasterboard wall repair and access.
• Ceramic tile repair, cutting around electrical sockets and switches.