Course Content
Develop practical painting and wallpapering skills to refresh and personalise your home. Through demonstrations and hands on workshop activities, learn how to prepare surfaces, achieve neat paint finishes and hang wallpaper with confidence.
- Safe working and protecting floors, furniture and fittings.
- Choosing suitable paints, wallpapers, pastes and tools.
- Stripping old wallpaper and preparing walls for decorating.
- Cleaning, filling and sanding walls and woodwork.
- Applying primers and undercoats.
- Using brushes and rollers, including cutting in neatly.
- Painting walls, ceilings, doors, skirting boards and facings.
- Measuring and estimating wallpaper quantities.
- Setting out, cutting, pasting and hanging wallpaper.
- Matching patterns and wallpapering around corners, doors and windows.
- Avoiding and correcting common problems, including bubbles, lifting seams and uneven paint finishes.
Entry Requirements
No formal qualifications or previous experience are required. This introductory course is suitable for beginners and people wishing to improve their DIY skills.
Progression
Use your skills on home decorating projects. You could explore DIY Airless Spray Painting or further introductory painting and decorating study.
Course Duration
12 weeks, one Wednesday evening per week (24 hours taught)
Start Date
To be confirmed
Time
6pm-8pm
Price
£220
For further information on this course, contact businesstraining@wcs.ac.uk or call 0141 468 4163.
