Joinery services Scotland offer a professional, tidy and polite service focused on taking the stress out of home renovations. They specialise in creating bespoke wooden furniture and are highly skilled in carpentry.
The firm has invested in a new manufactured joinery workshop at its Knowsley business premises. This has allowed the company to take on six staff and increase production capacity.
Qualifications
If you’re interested in joining a skilled trade and working in a highly respected industry, a joinery services Scotland apprenticeship could be for you. There are a number of different qualifications and routes into the industry, all leading to an exciting career. You can choose from carpentry, manufacturing, milling and design, and many other specialist areas of the wood industry. You can craft bespoke timber products as a joiner, or develop innovative manufacturing processes as a machinist.
A typical route into the profession is a Modern Apprenticeship. This combines college learning with work-based training and site experience. It is a great way to learn a trade and get paid as you go along. This is a full-time course, lasting between 18 and 24 months.
You’ll gain a range of practical skills in Edinburgh College’s carpentry and joinery workshops, with support from experienced lecturers. You’ll also be encouraged to take part in work placements to give you a real-life insight into the construction industry and help improve your employability.
Joinery Services
During this course, you’ll complete an SVQ (Scottish Vocational Qualification) in Carpentry and Joinery (Construction). The SVQ is developed by ConstructionSkills Sector Skills Council and is based on National Occupational Standards. During the course, you’ll learn about using manual and power tools, constructing frameworks, preparing materials for use on-site and completing risk assessments and method statements. You’ll also benefit from visits to live construction sites and receive support to develop your workplace health and safety knowledge.
Once you’ve completed the course, you can apply for a construction-related job at City Building. Depending on your level of qualifications, you may be offered a higher-level apprenticeship or even become a senior joiner. In addition to delivering high quality joinery, the company also offers a variety of other services including demolition, new build and refurbishment.
You’ll need to be able to demonstrate your competence in all of the following areas. You’ll be required to follow existing work practices, methods and procedures, carry out any reasonable duties and responsibilities as directed by supervisors, adhere to the company’s health and safety policy, participate in all relevant training and development activities and achieve an SVQ at an appropriate level within your chosen area of expertise.
Trading Standards Vetted
Trading Standards Scotland (TSS) is the national team for local authority trading standards services in Scotland. It is funded jointly by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Her Majesty’s Treasury and managed by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), the representative body for Scotland’s local authorities. Its political governance is provided by the TSS Governance Board, which is chaired by the COSLA spokesperson for Community Wellbeing.
Trading standards are warning residents to be on their guard against rogue itinerant traders who are operating in the Highlands. Councillors are urging consumers to take great care and ask for ID before agreeing to any work being carried out by anyone calling at their homes. Joinery services Dundee are also advising people to never give out their bank details to cold callers and to use only reputable traders who have been vetted and approved by the local Trading Standards service.
In order to be Trading Standards Approved, businesses must undergo a detailed vetting process and agree to abide by a code of practice. This is enforceable by local Trading Standards services and includes criminal record disclosure. Businesses must also be able to provide references and satisfy the requirements of an approved trader scheme network. Once a business has passed all of the checks, they will be awarded the Buy With Confidence – Trading Standards Approved badge.
Summarize
Traders in Rhondda Cynon Taf are being urged to take advantage of a new approved trader scheme that connects consumers with vetted traders. The NRTH scheme allows consumers to register their requirements and then matches them with a pool of qualified and vetted traders who can quote for the job. Consumers are then free to choose which of the traders they want to contact and to agree a price for the work to be completed.
In addition to the NRTH scheme, traders in Rhondda Cynon Taff can apply for membership of the national Buy With Confidence scheme. This is the only nationwide approved trader scheme that is owned, operated and controlled directly by a collaboration of local authority Trading Standards departments. More than 60 local authorities directly support the scheme – from Cornwall to Stirling – because they believe it offers strong consumer protection.