Job description plasterer painter
If we are guided solely by the ETKS guide, which sets out all types of professions and their qualifications, in fairness it should be noted that it provides for the profession of plasterer and building painter separately. But in practice, few repair and construction enterprises form brigades of plasterers and brigades of painters.
Most often, their duties are combined, and the job descriptions of the plasterer painter are developed taking into account the work actually performed by the company. How exactly are the responsibilities of workers in this profession distributed? To understand this variety, the video in this article will help.
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Skills for Plasterers
The second level at the plasterer is the lowest. He is charged with the manufacture and installation of shingles used for plastering wooden surfaces (seeHow to plaster a wooden wall), as well as stuffing piece racks. He also mounts metal and fiberglass stucco grids, as well as heat-insulating plates, if plastering is done with insulation.
- During the mechanical application of the compositions, plasterers of the lowest qualifications manually prepare dry mixes, as well as load them into the mortar mixer. In cases where the supply of binders is carried out pneumatically, it loads the hopper of the feed unit with gypsum or cement.
- The job description of a plasterer-painter in construction, having a 2 category, also provides for the performance of operations such as notching smooth concrete and brick surfaces, mixing and filtering working mixtures, and caring for a plastic screed. He also produces and transportation of the necessary materials within the framework of the working plot.
- An employee of this category is obliged about the properties of the materials used for plaster leveling, as well as the filling of surfaces with lime-gypsum paste, which in construction is called sandless coating. He should be familiar with the basic formulation of plasters - the only exception is decorative compositions, and mortars that have a special purpose.
An employee with such qualifications should be well versed in hand-held plastering tools (seeWall plastering tool: what you need to work), be familiar with the rules for using inventory and fixtures. The preparation of surfaces for plastering and coating is also performed by plaster of the second category, so he should be able to do this in all possible ways.
Rank 3
The job description of the plasterer 3 categories, provides for the implementation of simple plastering tips, as well as the repair of old plaster. Such a specialist can notch the surface with a pneumatic hammer; stretch and coat with a solution a reinforcing mesh; align the wall or smooth ceiling over the entire area; to lubricate the adjoining skirting boards and door platbands, as well as ventilation ducts.
- The plasterer of this category, which you see in the photo, should be able to prepare basic solutions, know their properties, as well as the characteristics of the components used. He is charged with sealing the joints at the junction of the partitions to the walls, as well as digging the perimeter of the door and window frames.
- The duties of plasterers of the third category also include grinding of previously plastered surfaces. This is done when repairing old plaster, which is still firmly held, but needs to be strengthened by the surface layer. To do this, it is pre-moistened with water, and a liquid solution is applied, which is smoothed in a circular motion. As a result, a thin layer of solution remains under the surface, under which no defects are visible.
In addition, the plasterer of this qualification is engaged in fixing gypsum plasterboard in an adhesive manner. Therefore, in addition to the purpose, properties and formulations of the stucco mortar, it should also be familiar with the characteristics of adhesive mastics for dry plaster. The competence of the plasterer with the third category, methods of arrangement of ducts for ventilation.
Rank 4
The higher the qualification of an employee, the more complex technological operations he can perform, and accordingly, the price of his services also rises. Job description plasterer 4 categories, imposes an obligation on him installation of beacons. He must be proficient in applying the plaster mortar with mortar pumps.
- As for the quality of the applied coating, a specialist with this qualification can perform improved plastering smooth ceilings, walls, and other structures of a simple configuration. These include door and window slopes, niches, ceiling beams, smooth columns and pilasters.
- The job description of a painter of a 4-grade plasterer provides for the implementation of such rather complicated operations as pulling spherical transitions from walls to ceilings or cornices (a hollow), with the cutting of corner zones. He spits the wall for high-quality painting; cuts seams between ceilings and wall panels; It is engaged in the cutting of sunflowers and husks (external and internal corners).
- Also in his competence is the implementation of the finishing layer of basting, gunning plastering, ironing, finishing slopes with drywall on glue. Plasterer of the fourth category plastering communication channels and ducts on a grid, arranging cement floor screeds.
- An employee with such qualifications should be able to prepare special solutions used as heat- and moisture-resistant, as well as sound-absorbing and X-ray-proof coatings. The manufacture of decorative plasters is also in the competence of a specialist who has 4th category.
He must be able to grout the coating layer mechanically, rearrange the mortar hoses, and rinse them after finishing work. In accordance with the work performed, an employee with such qualifications must not only know how to prepare decorative compositions, mortars for special plastering, or gunned mixes, but must also know what additives, as well as accelerators and retarders, for which they are used.
Rank 5
The job description of the fifth-level plasterer-painter provides for a wider range of work, and most importantly, more complex. This includes the plastering of architectural elements with a curved surface - both manually and by machine.
He should be able to decoratively spray the surface, perform high-quality plastering of not only walls and ceilings, but also columns - both smooth and with flutes.
Note! Marble plaster, which today is called Venetian, is also performed by plaster of 5 category. Working as part of a plaster team or unit, he smoothes the solution, processes the coating layers, and performs glossy coating.
- The qualification of this worker allows plastering the ceiling with caissons, cutting through rustics, he can work with any type of decorative plaster.His responsibilities include not only plastering ceilings and walls, but also the device of bulk floors.
Fragmented repairs of ordinary high-quality, and decorative plaster, are also part of the plasterer's responsibilities with the fifth qualification category. In addition, he must be familiar with the methods of breaking down and marking up internal and front surfaces, know the technologies and various ways of decorating facades, be able to apply waterproofing, heat-resistant and other types of special plasters.
Rank 6
One of the most difficult technological operations when applying plaster is the drawing of hollows and rods having a variable cross section and curved surfaces. A specialist with qualifications corresponding to the sixth category, knows them perfectly, and also performs the breakdown and decorative plastering of coffered, vaulted and arched ceilings of any configuration - including multicenter ones.
Note! Plasterer 6 category should have a vocational secondary education, confirmed by a diploma.
His responsibilities include applying decorative plaster to columns and beams with a varying cross section, drawing out sockets, and mastering the sgraffito technique. Repair of all these coatings also performs plasterers of the 6th category. He knows the methods of marking surfaces of any complexity, and is able to perform any version of artistic plaster.
Rank 7
The seventh category is the highest, it must also be confirmed by a diploma. Plasterers of such qualifications carry out restoration work in ancient buildings, buildings and monuments. They should know everything about historical and modern architectural styles: both facade and interior.
So:
- The job description of the plasterer painter for workers with the seventh category assigns them the responsibility of painting small parts in machines and drums, as well as manually and by dipping. He cleans the surfaces of the old paint coating, scale, dirt, rinses them, including alkalis, prepares for painting.
- The restoration process also includes operations such as degreasing, impregnation with linseed oil, applying soil. Such a specialist carries out the grinding of paints manually, using a paint grater, filters the paint, mixes and cooks the adhesive compositions. He also makes varnishes, mastics, putties and putties. Care for tools and fixtures, the master has to perform independently.
From the plasterer having the seventh category, knowledge is required on all methods of staining, including in automatic machines, and in the drying modes of products. He needs to know about the properties of all surfaces, to know how to clean them from all types of corrosion, to protect the tree from bark beetle.
Such a specialist is obliged to navigate well in the widest assortment of paints and varnishes, primers, putties.
Qualification requirements for the painter
In the profession of a painter, the lowest qualification, like that of a plasterer, is 2 category, and the highest is 6 category. The painter with the second discharge performs the simplest operations during repair: cleaning the surface with a spatula, brush, scraper, or a stream of air from the compressor.
He applies drying oil or a primer, lubricates certain areas, strengthens the cement plaster with a special solution, which he himself prepares.
- To the duties of the painter 3 categories surface repair, simple painting, pasting of surfaces with paper wallpaper. He must be able to prepare putty, and apply it both manually and machine. The painter with the third discharge primers and polishes the surfaces, lacquers them, and cooks glue for rolled materials.
- Category 4 qualification, provides for the application of drying oil, putty and soil in a mechanized way.Such a painter can stain one tone on a stencil, correctly arrange the joint of the borders of two paints with a different color (stretch panels without fading). His competence includes the preparation of pastes, emulsions, primers and paints according to a specific recipe, as well as pasting the walls with fabrics and wallpaper of low density. Accordingly, he should be able to use a machine for batch cutting wallpaper. Such a specialist not only knows about the methods of preparation and properties of the materials used, but also the rules of operation and the construction of paint stations.
- Plasterer of the fifth category performs even more complex work. This is painting by means of high-pressure sprays, and a browning of elongated panels, flayting (leveling) of painted surfaces, as well as their trimming. He performs screen staining, but now multicolor; performs decorative coloring with imitation of textures of stone and wood.
- Painter 5 category he will be able to copy and cut a stencil with a geometric or artistic pattern, he will be able to color the paint in any tone, using several pigments. In his competence, gluing high-quality wallpaper, including wood - and not only walls, but also ceilings.
- In conclusion, a few words about the responsibilities of the painter of the sixth category. He performs the most complex work in the repair of walls and ceilings, as well as artistic painting of walls. Therefore, his qualifications must also be confirmed by a diploma of secondary specialized education. A specialist of such a high class not only performs relief painting, but also knows the techniques of airbrushing, ornamental painting, drawing images according to sketches and drawings. He knows how to compose the most complex compositions on the samples, and get the right tones.
- Painter 6 category engaged in silvering, bronzing and gilding of surfaces. He knows the subtleties of color formation, he knows everything about pigments and their chemical interaction when mixed. Where a master of this class works, plasterer of the 7th category only helps him.
But if we take into account that such high-class specialists do not participate in mass construction and decoration of buildings and structures, then the duties of plasterers and painters with average qualifications are combined.
