This course provides a trade outcome in carpentry, covering work in residential and commercial applications.
What will you learn?
During this course you will learn how to:
- Working safely and sustainably in the building industry
- Use carpentry tools and equipment
- Handle carpentry materials
- Carry out general demolition of minor building structures
- Carry out setting out
- Carry out levelling operations
- Carry out measurements and calculations
- Read and interpret plans and specifications
- Use explosive power tools
- Construction and erection of frames, trusses, eaves and roofs
- Install flooring systems
- Construct wall frames
- Construct ceiling frames
- Erect roof trusses
- Construct pitched roofs
- Construct eaves
- Install and replace windows and doors
- Install lining, panelling and moulding
- Construct timber external stairs
To do the course you must have access to electrical power tools for carpentry, be working in the building industry, have a smart-phone with internet access, and be able to understand, read and write basic English. All measurements are metric.
Duration: 24 months
Cost: A$1000. Pay as you go; A$80 per subject