Both painting and plastering relate to finishing work. For their high-quality and quick implementation, a certain qualification is necessary, because a wide selection of application techniques, technologies and materials require from the specialist not only experience, but also appropriate skills.
The painter is a master in applying coloring compounds. The word comes from the German language from mahler, which means "painter". And if in some areas of human activity a similar interpretation of this profession is still justified, then in construction production everything is somewhat different.
Specialization Features
- Qualification level: construction plasterer.
- Average term of study: no more than two years in accordance with training programs approved at the state level.
The volume of work that is assigned to the workers of this profession in construction is truly enormous. A plasterer-painter, unlike his colleagues from other fields, not only paints the surfaces that need it - be it ceilings, walls, floors in constructions or buildings, pipes or valves, but also eliminates them on their own in the presence of small defects. This process involves the removal of traces of old compounds with pigments, leveling the putty of the plane, since irregularities in this case are unacceptable.
If more global work is needed, then plasterer is involved in their implementation. However, this is the dilemma of the profession: often these responsibilities are performed by one person. Indeed, traditionally before the painters in other areas are diametrically opposed tasks: high-quality painting of wooden furniture elements, steel parts of ships and much more. All surfaces for applying the compositions have already been prepared, and specialists need to lay the decorative or protective layer without disturbing the technological processes. While the plasterer-painter takes on the starting leveling, and decorating the ceilings, walls, and even floors or external walling using special building mixtures. It is truly difficult to imagine the erection of a traditional building without the use of professional gypsum or cement based compounds. As well as neglecting the painting, which is the final stage of decoration and give the house an original color, gloss and gloss. While other construction professions have a clear division according to the degree of responsibility, the people performing the finishing work are all different: because of the close connection between the processes, only one person or (as a maximum) team implements them.
Necessary equipment
Usually, such professionals have all the necessary tools for carrying out any construction processes that are part of their field of activity. For example, plaster is applied and leveled using trowel, trowels, rules, graters and other special devices. If it is necessary to level a large area in a short time, then mechanized application methods are used. A team of plasterers with a pneumatic feed station increases their productivity by at least ten times. In turn, this does not lead to a decrease in quality or a violation of technology.
After the starting laying of materials and a set of final strength by them, they begin to paint the surfaces. To do this, use brushes, rollers or spray guns. The plasterer painter applies the coloring composition with a thin layer and evenly over the entire surface. If it is decided that the walls will be glued with wallpaper, then they will use their own tools: a table and knives for cutting, rubber spatulas for leveling and joining panels of material.
Decorative plasters, with a pleasant texture and elegant appearance, are becoming increasingly popular in decorating rooms both inside and out. The application of these structural coatings cannot be taken out of the context of finishing work, all the more so for their correct laying requires significant experience and skill of builders. Therefore, the painter-plasterer is a very responsible and creative profession, a competent specialist in it will always be in demand.
Features of training and activities
Training of professional decorators is carried out in specialized institutions that have the appropriate accreditation. The activities of graduates of educational institutions takes place in the following areas: external and internal plastering or painting, arrangement of walling during the repair, construction or reconstruction of buildings and structures of any complexity.
The objects of the labor process of graduates who have received various construction professions are:
- scaffolding and forests;
- all types of hand and power tools;
- finishing technologies and materials;
- surfaces of buildings or plots that are adjacent to them.
Directions for the training of future specialists:
- plastering work;
- features of coloring and preparation of various types of structures.
Monitoring the results of the development of the program
Courses of plasterer painter allow interested persons to master the nuances of the profession and become competent in matters:
- organization of their own activities, based on the tasks and the availability of necessary materials;
- the nature and significance of labor, maintaining interest in the production process and introducing creative innovations into it;
- analysis of the situation on the site and the implementation of current or final control of events;
- implementation of technology correction in accordance with temperature and physical conditions;
- search for information that is necessary for effective interaction between team members or the operational conduct of the necessary processes;
- implementation of information and communication relations that contribute to the functioning and communication between management, colleagues and customers.
Regulation of activities
In the official plane of relations, the job description of the plasterer-painter is applied. It defines the aspects of activity, mutual duties and responsibilities of the employer and employees. It reflects:
- technological features of plastering and painting processes;
- stages of preparation of surfaces of varying degrees of complexity;
- staining and its nuances for materials with various absorption;
- compositions and pigments that are used for application;
- pasting the interior space of rooms with natural and artificial rolled materials (wallpaper, corks, polystyrene foam tiles and so on).
However, these general provisions are based on a basis that is based not only on the job description of the plasterer-painter, since in its functioning personnel records management is based on regulatory legal acts, the organization’s charter, internal rules and orders of direct management. Together they determine the general characteristics of the profession and the principles of labor activity.
Requirements for individual skills of specialists
A plasterer-painter needs to have physical endurance, excellent coordination and a sense of balance, mobility of the body and hands, good eyesight and color discrimination, developed musculoskeletal parameters, eye and memory. It should be borne in mind that work can be carried out both at height and in cramped conditions.
Medical contraindications
Persons who have diseases of the supporting apparatus (flat feet, chronic sciatica, etc.), defects of the cardiovascular system, vision (especially color blindness) should not try to master the specialty "plasterer-painter", whose training lasts at least two years and involves work in adverse conditions for them. There is also a list of conditionally permissible diseases that do not impose restrictions on the choice of profession, but suggest some inconvenience to the employee.
Training requirements
The first production practice of the plasterer-painter takes place during education. Before that, he became acquainted in detail with the principles of painting various surfaces, the features of their preparation and leveling. The advanced course also involves teaching methods of applying decorative materials, providing knowledge in the field of construction chemistry and the basics of color formation. At the same time, young specialists gain access to the mechanisms and machines that may be encountered in this activity (pneumatic plastering stations, spray guns and much more).
Main workplace
Plasterer painters most often work in construction companies and organizations of various forms of ownership and profile of activity. At the same time, these specialists can be employed in housing and communal services or repair and construction departments. Special cases of their involvement are architectural or design bureaus. With high qualifications and experience, construction painters can be involved in painting car body elements. Similar work is carried out in factories or in specialized maintenance services.
Where to learn
To become a painter, you need very little - desire and perseverance. Speaking about training more specifically, it is worth emphasizing that each region has its own characteristics. Typically, to qualify, it is enough to graduate from a lyceum or college in the relevant specialty and confirm your knowledge in practice.