Recent content by martin75

Hello Mate sorry to hear about your "incident" i tell you what though you have made me laugh for the first time today, most plasteres normally fall off the steps when looking at the customers wifes assets but the ceiling falling down is new one to me. bet you cringe when asked to skim over...

Hello mate if you pm me your details i rekon i would be able to hook you up with some of the people who have gone on to start plastering businesses up after doing their nvq's with us

some of the kids that we train sometimes couldnt keep a trowel for more than a month, more interested in using it to clean the botom of the shoes, playing tennis wth a ten pence peice, writing there names in brick walls, slashing there mates new kappa tracksuit etc... in fact anything but...

had a new trainer start today and had a good chat with him, anyway he proudly told me he had had his trusty trowel for 23 years and guards it with his life?????? (wont tell his age) what about the rest of you lot? ;D

i was on the tilers forum and sombody paid reference to your site, the had look on and been on here ever since

the center number provided relates to city and guilds (which are basic qualifications) its CITB/CAA which approves NVQ plastering and for anybody who wants to do an nvq this is the list of approved centers who can deliver and assess. this website is very good and will provide people with lots of...

Robospread + Danny many applogies about that, i was on my fourth glass of vodka at time of writing and done it with one eye open. i stand corrected

gavin i think you should splash out and get down to Bnq tommorow, 98 pence and three months of pondering, ive heard of keeping a tight hold of the budget but by god thats unbeleivable. if you get someone over 60 to in for you claim their 10% discount you save even more money, infact if you drop...

Hi Griff we are an approved center (5220) in the north east of england, i dont assess but i own the company and am the center contact so i chair all of the meetings with the EV from the awarding body and get to know exacly what they will and wont accept. i only make these comments because there...

i have always found a return on investment with the yellow pages and yell online but you have to speculate to accumulate. just make sure when you get enquiry calls you always ask where they got your number from and this way you ca measure how successful it has been for the year. also look at...

soory mate but me neither, will see if i can find anybody that may have usec one before, think the google thing was a good but of advice

on a very impartial point here to all of the conversation about certs of attendance, please look very closely at how the companies and websites word there course descriptions. we have gained accreditation and are very proud of the masively hard work and money that it cost us but there are so...

how does a baseball bat and a tub of vaseline....... sorry i lost the plot for a second there mate. theres nothing better and at the same time nothing worse than customers. what i have laerned over the years is to be nice but harsh, this is your livelyhood and if you have provided a service you...

hiya danny if you do the NVQ2 plastering you dont have to do the units that you dont want to i.e floor screeding there are mandatory units and optional, the optional ones are the ones with floor screeding, these are the units VR 01 Conform to general workplace safety mandatory VR...

3 week NVQ 2???? sorry to be a stick in the mud mate but how are you supposed to be able to get all of the knowledge and practical skills to be able to do that? i am fully familiar with the NVQ standards and liase with the EV (external verifier) and if we claimed to be able to produce nvq 2...