December 28, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
Are these five day brick laying/plastering courses any use to get a job?
they are very expensive and i dont have that kind of money to throw away
It is better to get hands on experience. Apply with one of the general contractors and tell them you are willing to learn. You start out as a clean up person and then mixing the cement. Then you can move up. But this will teach you everything about the job and you can find out if that is really what you want to do. Go to your local lumber yard or hardware store or check the phone book to find contractors in your area. You can earn money while learning and most of them could use more help.
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Posted by slysimon69
February 10, 2010 @ 7:51 pm
i wouldnt hire someone who has trained for a whopping 5 days ..w0ot
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Posted by pool player
February 10, 2010 @ 8:30 pm
It is better to get hands on experience. Apply with one of the general contractors and tell them you are willing to learn. You start out as a clean up person and then mixing the cement. Then you can move up. But this will teach you everything about the job and you can find out if that is really what you want to do. Go to your local lumber yard or hardware store or check the phone book to find contractors in your area. You can earn money while learning and most of them could use more help.
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Posted by American Werewolf
February 10, 2010 @ 8:51 pm
AS A LABOURER BUT YOU NEED TO DO THE FULL COURSE AND GET SOME PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE FIRST.
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Posted by tattooedgray
February 10, 2010 @ 9:29 pm
I’d have to say a big NO! my partner is a self employed Plasterer, and it’s taken him 8 years, to be s*it hot at his job.
Plastering, along with Carpentry, Brick Laying and any other trade you can think of, is an art form. It takes the guys years to learn! Would you pay someone to plaster your home after only 5 days of training!
The courses are rip offs
The best way to learn is to become an apprentice / labourer. You’ll get taught everything you need to know, and earn a pretty good wage in the process!
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Posted by mikey
February 10, 2010 @ 9:39 pm
They’re good if you already have building skills. Multi taskers tend to join these courses. I’m a qualified builder, but i can’t plaster to save my life, so I would consider a 5 day course in plastering ( just to do the odds and sods really…I still wouldn’t attempt to plaster a house). I know a lot of gardeners take short building courses to develope hard landscaping skills. As far as brick laying goes….even after a 6 month course you won’t be fit for a building site, but you’ll probably be ok as an odd job man (still good money). They’ll teach you how to lay bricks, and depending on individual talent you may even get quite good at it, but you’ll be slow. Buy some sand, hydrated Lime (it doesn’t set) a couple of hundred bricks and practice at home for a few weeks just running courses of bricks. You can take it all to pieces and rebuild it as many times as you like and if you use lime you can reconstitue that as many times as you like.
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Posted by sarah b
February 10, 2010 @ 9:56 pm
If it is a certificated course, it is worth doing. Anything that earns you a bit of paper entitling you to better wages is always good.
If you are already working for someone else, ask them if they would pay some of the fee, often an employer will do this so that their employee is able to fulfil a skilled need. If you are self-employed, you can write off a lot of the fee against tax. If you are unemployed, the Government should pay all or some of the fee.
Hope this helps.
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