4 Week NVQ Level 2 Tiling Course

ABOUT THIS COURSE

NVQ Tiling Course Content

Goldtrowel offers comprehensive training in wall and floor tiling, emphasizing that while many DIYers attempt tiling, true skill requires knowledge and practice to avoid costly mistakes. Over a 4-week course, you will work in your own equipped bathroom, learning tile types, preparation, and proper installation techniques. By the end of the course, you will earn your NVQ Level 2 in Wall and Floor Tiling.

What you can expect to learn from this Tiling course

• Correctly lay / fix  and cut floor and wall tiles to various backgrounds and shapes.
• Understand the different types of Primers and how to use them.
• Differences between Ceramic, Porcelain, Mosaic and Natural Stone tiles.
• Tools and equipment usage, differences and speciality types. 
• Working in wet areas such as wet rooms and showers, applying tanking systems. 
• How to successfully lay sand and cement floor screeds.
• Prepare all types of backgrounds including wood, plaster, render, screed.
• Full understanding of how to correctly set out walls and floors prior to fixing the tiles.
• Full understanding of Grouting techniques, types and uses, and methods of application.
• How to make good damaged walls, using basic plastering skills. 
• How to correctly apply silicon mastic, problems and options.
• NVQ guidance including pricing, quotes, quantification and much more.

During your training, we encourage you to ask questions, there are no dumb questions! Your training will be thorough, and you'll have your own room to work in. You'll also experience different rooms and situations to learn how to handle various challenges. The surfaces you'll tile will be similar to those in regular homes, which are often uneven and not perfectly shaped. Understanding how to prepare and tile these surfaces is key.

NVQ Wall & Floor Tiling Course - Content Breakdown

This guide covers the essential steps for tiling, including:

Materials & Tools: Introduction to different tile types, adhesives, and tools needed.

Preparation: Setting out the tiles and mixing adhesives properly.

Health & Safety: General safety practices to follow while tiling.

Tiling Procedures: Basic steps for fixing tiles on walls.

Troubleshooting: Common problems that DIY tilers may face and how to resolve them.

After proper checks and setting out, you will start fixing your tiles.

• Continuing from the previous day, you will now encounter openings, externals and internal angles, you will have discussions and demonstrations of how to cut tiles using various tools, cutters and equipment. You will continue tiling using your new skills to cut tiles using methods shown. 

• You will now have discussions and demonstrations about tile trim types, you will learn how to cut fix and mitre using various methods, after which you shall cut and fix trim to your window reveals, and finish with cut reveal tiles. Later in the day you will have more discussions and demonstration on grouting types, techniques and procedures, you will then grout your finished tiling using the correct tools to achieve a 'high end' finished job. 

• You will be moving into different rooms, with each room having its own unique problems, these differences highlight the skills required to successfully complete tiling tasks in different houses / environments, you will then tile more area in your own fully equipped bathroom with added problems to set out and cut around.

• There will be discussions and demonstrations about how to correctly lay under tile electric heating systems.This will continue on to laying levelling compounds, you will have the opportunity to lay some levelling compound. 

• You will embark the use of some specialist tools and equipment, commonly associated with site tiling, such as angle grinders, Levelling systems, Industrial Diamond Wet Cutters, Specialist trowels and labour saving materials.You will learn to set out complex tile layouts such as 'Brick Bond' and 'Herringbone'

• You will have a demonstration day from both Ardex and Rubi UK introducing their products and explaining them in greater detail.

• On the final week will be used to practice any of your weak points highlighted over the previous weeks, you will also have the chance to lay large format wall and/or floor tiles, and to speed tile this will give you the confidence of site working at the same time as showing you your full capabilities.

• You will attend your Tiling NVQ induction and be guided by your assessor, you will receive your NVQ portfolio and make a start, this will give you the confidence and knowledge to complete once working.  

• You will have practical and knowledge training in all 5 NVQ Units (4 mandatory plus 1 optional) these units are prescribed from National Occupational Standards in conjunction with CITB and the awarding bodies.Following this you will be registered in the last week of your course with leading awarding body NOCN/CSkills, your proof of registration can be emailed so that you can obtain your CSCS card.