Carpentry Courses

Considering working with your hands?

Carpentry courses will enable a student to follow a new and highly skilled career path. The  decision to follow this path can be a tough one to make. However if you are someone who works best with their hands, taking joy from creating physical objects from rough material, a carpentry course might be the ideal choice for you. 

Carpentry is one of the most necessary and highly utilised of all the building trades. This is due to the carpenters highly specialised knowledge and the skilled techniques that they use when working with wood. 

A career in carpentry can require a person to have the ability to accurately read and decipher blueprints, they must be able to lay out projects, accurately cut wood, and assemble different materials. They must always ensure that their work is highly accurate and in full compliance with any and all building standards. 

A career in carpentry can often require heavy lifting, climbing ladders, standing for prolonged periods, and working in all types of weather.

Types of carpentry

The term carpenter is a catch all phrase that is used to refer to anyone that works with wood. There are in fact, many different types of carpentry. The two main types of carpentry are Rough Carpentry and Finish Carpentry. 

Rough carpentry covers all woodwork that does not require a neat finish due to the fact that this work will be covered up by walls or be hidden behind other items. The most common type of rough carpentry is structural carpentry, and these carpenters are highly skilled individuals. 

They can quickly erect structural components of a building, eg: beams, posts and rafters. You will often find this type of carpenter working in the fields of roofing and framing. 

Finish carpentry refers to any sort of woodwork that will be visible or on show once a building has been completed. Due to this fact finish carpenters must work to a high level of accuracy and have a keen eye for detail. A finish carpenter will work on projects such as flooring, decking, building staircases, installing doors and windows and other aesthetic types of carpentry. 

There are also other types of carpentry that are more specialised, such as formwork carpentry, which is the erecting and dismantling of formwork. 

Cabinetmaking is another highly specialised branch of carpentry. This area is fairly self explanatory and focuses on the building of cabinetry for kitchens, bathrooms, laundries and offices and so forth. This also covers furniture making.

Why Choose Carpentry?

Carpentry can be a very rewarding career or hobby. If  you are interested in becoming a specialised labourer in the building trade or you want to learn how to make furniture as your hobby, a course in carpentry would be a great place to start. You will get great satisfaction from taking raw materials and creating something useful or beautiful from them. 

Studying a course in carpentry will also give you an understanding of various elements of the building and architectural trades. It can open doors that may previously have been closed to you. 

Possible outcomes

Studying a course in carpentry will enable the student to fully grasp the concepts of woodwork and construction. The learner will become skilled in the use of hand tools such as chisels, planes etc. You will learn how to work with wood effectively. Learners will develop the tools to identify the workability of your raw materials. Students will gain an understanding of construction and develop a keen eye for detail. 

A course in carpentry will provide the learner with an understanding of the practical skills required to pursue a varied array of careers. These include property manager, landscaper, handyman etc. 

The student will also gain a broad understanding of woodwork through application of learned practices. 

Outcomes

There are a whole host of options available to the successful student of carpentry. From furniture making and cabinet making through to pursuing a career in building trades that require a knowledge of woodwork. It also opens the door to further study in areas such as project management, architecture and landscaping. 

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