Building the Future with Construction Skills
We empower individuals to excel in the construction industry.
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WHO WE ARE
COMMITED TO HELP YOU EXCEL IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
CSW Ltd is a construction academy located at unit 14E Hepworth Park Pontyclun CF72 9FQ just 3 miles from junction 34 on the M4.
We offer a wide range of skills that enable you to pursue either a career in construction or the skills needed to tackle a home project or learn that skill you’ve always wanted.
All of our courses are up to 100% funded click here if you’re a CITB registered member or here if you want to apply for funding from the Government.
Dreaming of Becoming a Plasterer?
No experience? No problem! We’ll get you job-ready FAST.
Plasterers are in extremely high demand, with chances to earn upwards of £50k per year.
Our intensive courses provide:
Hands-On Training
Mix and apply your own plaster finishes daily! You’ll prep two mixes EVERY day, rapidly building essential skills.
✔ Experienced Mentors
Learn from professional, friendly instructors qualified to teach you insider tips and tricks of the trade.
✔ Unbeatable Value – We confidently deliver the most engaging, pound-for-pound value training in the nation.
✔ Fast-Track to Sites – Complement your plastering certification with CSCS credentials to walk onto job sites work-ready. (paid for and tested seperately)
✔ Tradesman Savings – Complete one week and unlock discounts on pro-grade tools from Makita, Marshalltown and more!
✔ At Construction Skills Wales, we embrace a comprehensive, intensive, practice-based approach to transform beginners into plastering pros on an accelerated timeline.
✔ We can even help you get your CSCS card, first aid and other courses
Let’s build your future together!
WHAT WE OFFER
OUR COURSES
Plastering 101
40 hours,5 days, Mon – Fri
8.30am to 5pm
Cash price is £600 per person per week.
Only complete this form if you are paying full-price cash or have had confirmation from the CITB that your funding has been approved. If you live in UK and want funding towards this course please press here and complete the form. The funding department will book you onto the course.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Ideal for complete begginers or those who need a refresher
5 day intensive plastering course covering
✅ Health and safety
✅ Assessing and preparing walls
✅ Adhesives and bonding agents
✅Skrim tape and beadwork
✅ Dot and dab a block wall
✅ Mixing plaster
✅ Repairing stud walls and ceilings
✅ Skimming plasterboard walls, ceiling boxing, and window reveals
✅ Skimming over existing plaster
✅ Skimming around obstacles
Plastering & Dry-lining 101
40 hours, 5 days, Mon – Fri
8.30am to 5pm
£600 cash price per person per week
Only complete this form if you are paying full-price cash or have had confirmation from the CITB that your funding has been approved. If you live in UK and want funding towards this course please press here and complete the form. The funding department will book you onto the course.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Ideal for complete begginers or those who need a refresher
5 day intensive plastering course covering
✅ Health and safety
✅ How to remove old plasterboard and load skips safely
✅ Assessing and preparing stud partitions to be dry -lined
✅ Dry line the walls ceiling boxing and window
✅ Dot and dab a block wall
✅ Adhesives and bonding agents
✅ Skrim tape and bead work
✅ Mixing plaster
✅ Repairing stud walls and ceilings
✅ Skimming plaster board walls, ceiling boxing and window reveals
✅ Skimming over existing plaster
✅ Skimming around obstacles
Intermediate PLastering
80 hours, 2 weeks, Mon – Fri
8.30am to 5pm
£1,050.00 cash price per person for 2 weeks
Only complete this form if you are paying full-price cash or have had confirmation from the CITB that your funding has been approved. If you live in UK and want funding towards this course please press here and complete the form. The funding department will book you onto the course.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Building on the skills learned from Plastering 101, you will be using the same begginers bay but this time you will focus on the relationship between speed and accuracy to increase you overall performance and spread rate.
✅ Work towards consistant spread thickness
✅ Applying plaster to multiple walls at the same time
✅ Measuring the water to plaster ratio
✅ Mixing plaster independently with minimal guidence
✅ Overall building your confidence to work more independently, faster, cleaner, smarter whilst working within safety guidelines.
Intermediate PLASTERING +
120 hours, 3 weeks – Mon – Fri
8.30am to 5pm
Cash Price is £1,500.00 for 3 weeks for 120 hours or 3 weeks
Only complete this form if you are paying full-price cash or have had confirmation from the CITB that your funding has been approved. If you live in UK and want funding towards this course please press here and complete the form. The funding department will book you onto the course.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Same as intermediate but with 1 additional week to learn the following:
✅ Working towards independence to assess a room, prepare, repair damage, tape, and bead multiple surfaces.
✅ Wet angles, putting 2 adjacent walls on at the same time
✅ Skimming around light fixings and spotlight holes
✅ Learning to price a job in the real world
ADVANCE PLASTERING / CONTINUED LEARNING
80 hours, 10 days, Mon – Fri
8.30am to 5pm
Cash price is £1150 for 80 hours or 2 weeks
Only complete this form if you are paying full-price cash or have had confirmation from the CITB that your funding has been approved. If you live in UK and want funding towards this course please press here and complete the form. The funding department will book you onto the course.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Ideal for those who have completed at least one week on our beginners course.
Using the skills learned from Plastering/Dry-lining 101
Students will be left to their own devices to analyse the advance bay and work towards drylining and skimming as required to a professional finish.
The advanced bay represents a more realistic sized room and obstacles seen in real life.
An experienced tutor will always be present to over see safety, guidance, workmanship and questions if needed but working alone and problem solving will be encouraged.
Course description:
✅ Mixing plaster
✅ Repairing stud walls and ceilings
✅ Dot and Dabbing bigger block walls
✅ Mixing many batches of plaster and adhesives
✅ Skimming plaster board walls and ceiling
✅ Skimming over existing plaster
✅ Skimming around larger windows, sky lights, fire breast, alcoves and a large 4m x 2.4m wall
Coming Soon
Painting and Decorating
Kitchen Fitting
Bathroom Fitting
Tiling
Gas Safe and 5 Year Renewals
UP TO 100% FUNDED
FUNDING OPTIONS
CITB Skills and training Fund Advice for Micro-sized and Small Construction Businesses
Up to 100% funded via the Citb for registered Citb members” could be included.
GOVERNMENT FUNDING
Government funding is available for those who meet eligibility requirements
please complete the form this link directs you to
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