DIY at Home - Level 1
This hands-on DIY at Home - Level 1 course is ideal for anyone who would like to learn DIY skills and covers three key areas: joinery, plumbing and tiling.
Provider
Glasgow Clyde College, GlasgowThis course is available on the Glasgow Clyde College website.
Description
What will I learn?
This DIY course will show you how to perform small maintenance tasks within your home. You will learn traditional methods of joinery including measuring, cutting and applying the fundamentals or joinery skills to small dedicated projects such as:
Joinery
- Partition/frame construction
- Plasterboard cutting, fitting and repair
- Setting out, cutting and fitting of internal architraves such as skirtings and facings
- Lock and latch repair
- Door maintenance
Tiling
- Measuring out sizes for tiles and making gauge rod
- Starting tiling, using spacers and tiling tools
- Continuing tiling, measuring cuts and using a tile saw
- Finishing off tiling, grout tiles and clean tiles
- Attaching bathroom/kitchen fittings to tiles using a cordless drill
Our fully trained staff are also on hand to offer a bespoke activity upon request.
The price of the course includes the cost of all materials used.
About Glasgow Clyde College
Glasgow Clyde College is a further and higher education college, located in Glasgow.
The college offers a broad range of courses across many subject areas, and has three easily accessible campuses in Glasgow at Langside, Cardronald and Anniesland.
With award winning teaching staff, the college is the largest further education provider in Glasgow and has the highest achievement rates in further and education in the area.
Glasgow Clyde College also has excellent links to universities to allow you to progress to degree level.
