Course Details

Course Duration: 36 months (not including EPA period)

Delivery method: 1 day a week at our Training Centre and site visits from our assessors. Access to an online portfolio.

Assessment methods: A combination of observations, centre based practical and onsite assessments, professional discussions, written and oral questioning, online and paper-based tests and portfolio evidence gathering. A final End Point Assessment.

Entry requirements: No prior experience is required; however, learners must be working in the construction/ maintenance industry. Entry will be based on initial assessments and an interview.

Apprentices without level 1 English and Maths will need to achieve this level and apprentices without level 2 English and Maths will need to take the tests for this level prior to taking the end-point assessment. This will be incorporated into your Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship Profile

The broad purpose of this occupation is to apply layers of plaster onto walls, floors and ceilings. Plastering serves a protective function, in that it makes buildings more robust and also an aesthetic function. Plasterers will often complete dry lining projects during their career. Although a person may specialise solely in dry lining, a plasterer must have the knowledge of dry lining in addition to their knowledge and skills to plaster. The occupation covered by this apprenticeship standard is for a Plasterer that will specialise in either Solid or Fibrous plaster work after undertaking the core learning (which includes introductory elements of both solid and fibrous plastering).

Topics Covered

• Health and Safety
• Customer Service and Communication
• Buildings
• Materials
• Considerations before completing plastering work
• Dry Lining
• Application Methods
• Fixing ancillary works
• Producing reverse moulds
• Casting from reverse moulds
• Fixing cast mouldings
• Restoring existing mouldings

Skills Developed

• Safe working
• Working environment
• Fixing and jointing plasterboard Plastering
• In-situ moulds Running moulds
• Repairing existing plaster
• Install cast mouldings Rendering
• Ancillary works
• Reverse moulds