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Building Maintenance

THIS IS A GREAT DEPARTMENT TO JOIN AND THERE WILL BE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ALL ASPECTS OF LIGHT BUILDING WORK. YOUR TRAINING HERE WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD BACKGROUND TO GETTING AN APPRENTICESHIP COURSE WHEN YOU LEAVE OR GAINING FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.

Building Maintenance

THIS IS A GREAT DEPARTMENT TO JOIN AND THERE WILL BE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ALL ASPECTS OF LIGHT BUILDING WORK. YOUR TRAINING HERE WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD BACKGROUND TO GETTING AN APPRENTICESHIP COURSE WHEN YOU LEAVE OR GAINING FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.

Our Building Maintenance Department can help you to...

  • Get your licence to work on sites (CSCS Card)
  • Get Working at Heights, Manual Handling & Emergency First Aid qualifications
  • Learn basework, bricklaying and brickwork repair
  • Do block paving and concreting
  • Gain a range of light building experience
  • An NVQ L2 in bricklaying may be possible
  • No prior experience is necessary as full training is given

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Learning basics of the trade and gaining work experience.

Complete Level 1 basic theory course.

  • CSCS
  • Driving Theory
  • Emergency First Aid
  • Manual handling
  • Working at Heights
  • Health & Safety

Examples of dept skills you can learn:

  • Using a trowel
  • Making a mix
  • Building a range of different walls and corners
  • Gutter
  • Gulley
  • Brickwork repair
  • Drains
  • Experience on a range of power tools
  • Basework – basic setting out of walls
  • Block paving
  • Rendering practice
  • Plastering practice

Increasing work experience and skill level.

Complete Level 2 basic theory course

By the end of Level 2, trainees should 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:

  • Using a trowel
  • Making a mix
  • Building a range of different walls and corners
  • Gutter
  • Gulley
  • Brickwork repair
  • Drains
  • Experience on a range of power tools
  • Basework – basic setting out of walls
  • Block paving
  • Rendering practice
  • Plastering practice

Trainees who 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 part of the following:

  • Driving practical
  • Bricklaying NVQ
  • CPCS licence for digger or dumper

Building Department Social Highlights

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Well done to everyone who received certificates this month. #building #painting #Estate #landscaping #metalwork #carpentry #foundationlife ... See MoreSee Less

Well done to everyone who received certificates this month.   #building #painting #estate #landscaping #metalwork #carpentry #foundationlifeImage attachmentImage attachment+3Image attachment

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Congratulations

Well done everyone 👏

Well done all 👏

The Firepit. No it's not Mallorca, it's Cowfold. I GOT A TEXT.... Can everyone please gather round the firepit. The public have been voting, and.....Darren there is not going to be a re-coupling........you are going home 🤣
Seriously now, the firepit is looking fabulous and the #builders are doing a great job so well done to everyone in the department and Darren. #foundationlife #carpentry #metalwork #Estate #building
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The Firepit.   No its not  Mallorca,  its  Cowfold.   I GOT A TEXT.... Can everyone please gather round the firepit.  The public have been voting,  and.....Darren there is not going to be a re-coupling........you are going home   🤣
Seriously now, the firepit is looking fabulous and the #builders are doing a great job so well done to everyone in the department and Darren.  #foundationlife #carpentry #metalwork #estate #building

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Spell check!

Fantastic work with the fire pit and as always camelia Botnar foundation delivers many happy memories of my residential training in my journey towards independence 40 years ago in January March and April 1983 and is always brings me back happy memories

Pubic 🤣

Massive firepit taking shape by our builders who are learning skills to earn lots of money when they finish training #building ... See MoreSee Less

Massive firepit taking shape by our builders who are learning skills to earn lots of money when they finish training #building

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Some of what I made ended up in the fire pit in the 90s. 🤣

Rueben Stapleton ❤️❤️

Well done - love the socks ! #building ... See MoreSee Less

Well done - love the socks ! #building

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The work continues... #building

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Keep up the good work!

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