Flexible Part Time Decorating Course

At Access Training we fully understand that most of our potential students have busy, full lives working, looking after families and simply do not have the time to attend a course even though they have been wanting to attend various decorating courses for some time.

That is why Access Training has developed this bespoke course that gives the individual the flexibility to fit the course around your current lifestyle.

The course is designed to be varied so it can cater for everyone. We run regular flexible attendance options designed for parents who need to fit their training around school times whilst still having a learning pathway that can teach you how to transform your home.

You may be keen at DIY or have previous experience in hanging wallpaper for instance, but we assume you have never done anything like this before so you everyone can pick up the simple techniques from the start and work at their own learning speed.

You will eventually learn more advanced techniques that will allow you to add that ‘magazine look’ to your home and have a greater understanding of what you want to achieve and give you the confidence to use it out in the real world.

Depending on how long you would like your course to be, these are some of the areas you can cover:

• Painting & Decorating Techniques
• Wallpaper hanging and wall correction techniques
• Advanced interior decoration including borders, stencilling and coving
• Specialist paint effects including marbling and other faux finishes

This course is designed for literally anyone. It is designed for adults of any age who want to undertake Painting & Decorating jobs in the home, but do not have the knowledge, experience or confidence to produce a professional finish and to work safely. The tutors delivering this course will share with you their knowledge from many years experience so you can learn the necessary skills to take on these jobs safely and correctly and you will learn at a speed that is comfortable to you as an individual. All candidates will receive a certificate to confirm their attendance upon completion of the course. It is also an option for individuals to sit an examination covering the aspects they have covered on the course, even though this course is accredited. This can be provided for delegates as an optional examination that can help those students who intend to progress onto other courses. However, delegates will receive a certificate accredited by Access Training. (City & Guilds 6218 Award)

There are many areas that you can cover. We have our discretionary Painting & Decorating Units but you can also choose from the optional unit. But don’t worry if you’re not sure, our standard course covers all the areas that most people need in our experience. If you need more information though please get in touch.

• Painting techniques
• Tools, correct selection and use
• How to use oil based and water based paint.
• Techniques for papering walls and ceilings
• Wallpapering difficult areas including window reveals, arches and stairways.
• Preparation of wall areas for emulsion painting.
• Preparation of new wood for painting.
• Painting previously painted woodwork.
• Preparing and painting metal.
• Varnishing and staining.
• Exterior painting.
• Preparation of walls and ceilings with lining paper before emulsioning
• Preparation of walls and ceilings with lining paper (cross lining) before wallpapering.
• Splicing papers and hanging boarders.

The Painting & Decorating Optional Units are:

• Preparation required for faux finishes.
• Masking techniques for a professional finish.
• Stencilling to include single plate, multi plate,
• Air brushing stencils on walls.
• Marbling and graining.
• Advanced Marbling.
• Stencilling designs
• Using colours creatively
• Using Vinyl
• Coving internal and external corners

Guided Learning: 1 to 6 Weeks Specialist Training After this course some students also undertake other short courses to build on their knowledge and others decide to go on and complete a full qualification in other areas and go further with their training. If this is the case for you when you attend your short DIY course then we recommend that completing different areas as a package greatly enhances the student experience. This provides students who successfully complete their courses with a good grounding and the ability to carry our work in their homes both safely and to a standard that the student is happy with. Other Subjects that we cover are:

• 5 Day Plastering Course
• 5 Day Block Paving Course
• 5 Day Kitchen Fitting Course
• 5 Day Bricklaying Course
• 5 Day Carpentry Course
• 5 Day Painting & Decorating Course
• 5 Day Plumbing Course
• 5 Day Electrical Course

Access Training is committed to the highest standards of customer focus and technical expertise, with a host of benefits including:

• Specialist, professionally qualified teaching staff with a wealth of industry experience.
• Enhanced Online Assessments, allowing students to sit exams with flexibility to fit around their speed of learning.
• 24hr online support for all student questions and queries when studying away from the training centre.

The main areas include:

• South Wales
  (Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Bridgend)
• South of England
  (Bristol, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon, Oxford, Reading, Slough, London)
• The Midlands
  (Birmingham, Hereford, Worcester, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester)
• The South West
  (Devon, Cornwall, Exeter, Plymouth, Taunton)

Information regarding our painting & decorating courses is available from our Course Advice Team. Please call for advice or leave your details and we’ll contact you!