Dry LinerCategory: Business
Article posted by: Jon Richards
Dry lining is concerned with the creation of wall and ceiling linings or partitions, using board and metal frames. It is employed in all modern construction projects, everything from houses to airports.
The trade breaks down into two distinct areas:
i. The construction of wall and ceiling linings and partitions, which is called dry lining fixing. Using drawings and plans, dry liners create frames by cutting and putting down metal tracks. The work can be complicated and call for close attention to detail. Dry liners must allow for doors and windows.
ii. Dry lining finishing â€" involves completed work with smooth, surfaces, which are ready to be decorated. Dry lining finishers, who are also called tapers and joiners (due to their work of filling in joints between boards and also covering joints with reinforcing paper tape or fibre) put plaster onto the joints and, if needed, smooth them off to finish. If extra protection against fire, moisture or excess sound is needed, special materials can be used for the necessary linings and partitions.
Dry liners usually work together in teams, but dry line fixers and dry line finishers are not usually in the same team. Finishers can often work alone.
Dry liners usually carry out their work on active construction sites, which can be somewhat cold before doors and windows are put in. The work can entail standing, bending, kneeling, lifting, and carrying.
A dry liner’s normal working week is around 40 hours, from Monday to Friday. To get jobs finished on time, there can be opportunities for overtime in the evenings and on weekends.
School work experience placements and apprenticeships are a usual route into dry lining work. Most colleges and other training organisations run suitable courses, offering GCSE, BTEC and City & Guilds qualifications and awards.
Once qualified, dry liners can look forward to annual earnings of around ÂŁ20000. Those working on a self-employed basis can set their own rates of pay, negotiable with clients.
Vacancies are advertised in specialist publications, local and regional newspapers, relevant websites, and also by Job Centre Plus and specialist recruitment agencies.
Posted By: Jon Richards
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