Terrazzo trades workers are artfully skilled in creating decorative surfaces that are durable, long lasting and esthetically pleasing. They prepare the surface by installing strips to divide sections. They then blend fine marble chips into cement or epoxy and pour the solution into the sections. Once the terrazzo is thoroughly set, terrazzo craftworkers correct any depressions or imperfections with a grinder to create a smooth, uniform finish.
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Work in residential, commercial and industrial environments to finish walls, floors and everything in between.
Tile
Tile layers and finishers are skilled craftworkers in the masonry trades. Setters lay out and install various types of tile, including ceramic, marble and granite. Finishers supply and mix construction material, apply grout and finish and clean surface areas. They assist layers by prepping work areas with supplies, installation materials and tools. As they gain experience, they are given more complex tasks, such as cutting tile.
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Lather
Lathers install the supportive backings on ceilings or walls to which plaster or other materials are applied. Work involves gypsum, composition board and/or wood lathe. The process also includes wall furring, the erection of steel and tying or lacing metal lath on both walls and ceilings.
Workers will identify and use all types and sizes of screeds and beads, and will learn to apply drop hangers, runners, and furring to hang ceilings. They will learn to identify and nail diamond mesh, flat rib, high rib, herring bone, paperback and boswick metal lathe.
Plasterer
Do you have a creative touch? A plasterer is a skilled tradesperson who works with plaster on interior walls and decorative moldings on walls or ceilings. Today’s plasterers use traditional techniques as well as modern skills of house plastering, cement stucco, covering, plastering, repairing, texture plastering, fireproof construction, plastering on concrete and masonry and more.
Painter and Wall Coverer
Painters and Wallcovering Professionals work in all kinds of commercial and industrial environments, from work that takes a few days to large-scale projects that can take weeks or months to complete. Apprentices learn how to read blueprints, prepare surfaces, pair colors, finish wood, use and care for state-of the art tools and equipment, spray paint, decorate finishing, cover walls, and abide by health and safety regulations.
These careers involve climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching and good color vision. You may occasionally be exposed to the weather and work frequently in the proximity of dust, fumes and moving mechanical parts.
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Glazier and Glass Worker
Glaziers install aluminum metal storefronts, window frames, doors and frames for entrances, curtain walls on high rise buildings, ribbon windows, glass and glass substitute. Glaziers also install handrails, glass, interior hollow metal, mirrors, shower doors and glass walls. As a glazier you will work at the edge of a building and at great heights. Glaziers report to job sites and work in hot and cold weather. It’s no office job.
Glass workers know all phases of glass fabrication: Glass cutting–laminated, single and double strength, plate and rough glass. As a glass worker you operate polishing and grinding machines, warehouse and handle flat and bent glass. Glass workers report to their individual shops.
If you choose to work as a production worker, you will spend most of your time in assembly shops.
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Floor Coverer
Have you ever thought about the floors you stand on? Floor coverers are responsible for installing all types of flooring materials, including carpet, laminates and vinyl, wood and sports surfaces. Floor coverers estimate materials and understand pattern layouts. They also understand the safe and proper use of many types of tools, adhesives and fastening systems. Most floor covering work is performed indoors.
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Drywall Finisher
Drywall finishers, also known as tapers, start their jobs after drywall installation. Finishers tape and apply joint compound to prepare walls or other finishes. Apprentices learn how to read blueprints, prepare surfaces, finish drywall, use and care for state-of-the-art tools and equipment, and abide by health and safety regulations.
These careers involve climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching and good color vision. You may occasionally be exposed to the weather and work frequently in the proximity of dust, fumes and moving mechanical parts.