Overview Of The Property Development Course

This package of learning will provide you with the skills to undertake property development or refurbishment work. This package concentrates on the most common skills that you will need in order to undertake the various works yourself, avoiding the need to employ tradesmen at cost.

What You’ll Learn

Tiling: Entirely hands-on (5 Days)

This course will cover both wall and floor tiling, teaching you to tile using a range of different products, covering different patterns and tiling in different areas.

Plumbing: Entirely hands-on (5 Days)

This course deals with all aspects of domestic plumbing including systems and fittings, soldering techniques, jointing, bending and pressure testing copper tube, valves, taps and cisterns and plastic tube installations – all leading to a complete bathroom installation.

Plastering: Entirely hands-on (5 Days)

This course covers fixing plasterboard and taping joints (except weekends), cutting and fixing angle beads, bonding of surfaces, skimming walls and ceilings.

Painting & Decorating: Entirely hands-on (5 Days)

This course covers surface preparation work including repairs, application of both water based and oil based products, cutting around obstructions, how to use brushes and rollers effectively and cutting, pasting and hanging wallpaper.

Domestic Electrics: Hands-on and theory (10 Days)

This 10-day course will provide you with the practical skills to undertake a variety of domestic electrical work whilst also giving you an insight into Part P of the Building Regulations and provision of a C&G 2393 certificate

17th Edition Wiring Regulations: Theory-based (3 days)

This 3-day course will complement the domestic installer training and help you with registration onto a Competent Person scheme for self-certification purposes if that is your choice. Equally, if you prefer to use your local Building Control for electrical installation notification, holding 17th Edition will aid this process

C&G 2392 – Fundamental Inspection and Testing: Hands-on and theory (5 days)

This course will cover the inspection and testing processes required when undertaking domestic electrical work. Again, it will aid scheme registration or Building Control processes.

How You’ll Learn

These various training courses are a mixture of practical and theory based lessons. You are involved at every stage, getting completely involved in every aspect of every course. A great way to learn the basics of each trade and to be able to leave with the confidence to undertake aspects of these subjects yourself.

Courses Open To You After

The majority of these subjects have advanced training options available if you feel you want to learn that little bit more or alternatively, maybe you want to move on and specialise in one particular area. If that is the case, most of what we have within this package can be learned on a larger scale to qualification level so if you decide to upgrade, we will take in into account the time spent on the subject and the fees allocated to that subject.

Additional Info

At Able Skills, we offer full qualifications in every subject that we do so if you decide to upgrade to improve in a particular subject, we will take into account the time spent on that subject and the fees allocated to that subject.

Depending on just how much of a property’s development or refurbishment that you want to be able to undertake yourself, you could consider gas training. Able Skills is a Bpec Gas training centre so if you also want to undertake all aspects of central heating and gas installation work then you may want to consider New Entrant Gas Training Package 2.