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EWPA Bricklaying
This EWPA (Experienced Worker Practical Assessment) is for experienced bricklayers who need their NVQ Level 2, this will allow you to get your blue CSCS card.
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This 1 day assessment is conducted at Goldtrowel, this can be completed any day of the week including weekends, you will be profiled by our assessor before booking (we recommend giving us a ring and having a chat), this is to ensure that you have the experience and skills required to achieve your NVQ via this route, you will be asked to complete paperwork we send to you, this will include a reference/s document, the assessment day will involve you proving your practical skills, by demonstrating the following traits, laying bricks / blocks (cavity), you will also have to correctly answer some written questions which will prove your knowledge in bricklaying and general construction, and finally at the end of your plastering assessment you will have a recorded discussion with your assessor, during which you will chat about your work career, after completing your bricklaying assessment you will receive your NVQ certificate in the post within 10 days.
During profiling before booking this course, you will be asked about your work experiences and work history, the types of work you have done, if you have worked domestic, site, commercial or contract work, you need to be truthful with your answers, just because you do not have experience in some areas does not mean you cannot be assessed or unable to pass.
The assessment is based on five contributing items:
QCF 641 – Conforming to General Health, Safety and Welfare in the Workplace
QCF 642 – Conforming to Productive Working Practices in the Workplace
QCF 643 – Moving, Handling and Storing Resources in the Workplace
QCF 40v2 – Erecting Masonry Structures in the Workplace
QCF 41v2 – Setting Out Masonry Structures in the Workplace
QCF 50v2 – Repairing and Maintaining Masonry Structures in the Workplace
Note: the criteria for all EWPA learners includes:
Below are the most common questions that we get asked.
.accordion-body, though the transition does limit overflow.Perp = Perps are the end side of a brick.
Bed = This is the mortar that bricks and blocks sit in or 'bed in'.
Mortar = This the mix of either sand and cement or sometimes lime that holds the bricks or blocks together.
Air brick = A brick with perforations to allow the passage of air through a wall. Usually used to permit the ventilation of underfloor areas.
Bat = A cut brick. A quarter bat is one-quarter the length of a stretcher. A half-bat is one-half.[1]
Bullnose = Rounded edges are useful for window sills, and capping on low and freestanding walls.
Cant = A header that is angled at less than 90 degrees.
Closer = A cut brick used to change the bond at quoins. Commonly a quarter bat.
Queens closer = A brick that has been cut over its length and is a stretcher long and a quarter-bat deep. Commonly used to bond one brick walls at right-angled quoins.
Kings closer = A brick that has been cut diagonally over its length to show a half-bat at one end and nothing at the other.
Coralent = A brick or block pattern that exhibits a unique interlocking pattern.
Corbel = A brick, block, or stone that oversails the main wall.
Cramp = Or frame cramp is a tie used to secure a window or door frame.
Creasing tile = A flat clay tile laid as a brick to form decorative features or waterproofing to the top of a garden wall.
Dog leg = A brick that is specially made to bond around internal acute angles. Typically 60 or 45 degrees.
Dog tooth = A course of headers where alternate bricks project from the face.
Fire wall = A wall specifically constructed to compartmentalise a building in order to prevent fire spread.
Header = A brick laid flat with its width exposed
Honeycomb wall = A wall, usually stretcher bond, in which the vertical joints are opened up to the size of a quarter bat to allow air to circulate. Commonly used in sleeper walls.
Indent = A hole left in a wall in order to accommodate an adjoining wall at a future date. These are often left to permit temporary access to the work area.
Movement joint = A straight joint formed in a wall to contain compressible material, in order to prevent cracking as the wall contracts or expands.
Noggin = Infill brick panels in timber framework buildings
Party wall = A wall shared by two properties or parties.
Pier = A free-standing section of masonry such as pillar or panel.
Plinth = A stretcher that is angled at less than 90 degrees.
Quoin = A corner in masonry.
Racking back = Stepping back the bond as the wall increases in height in order to allow the work to proceed at a future date.
Rowlock = A brick laid on the long narrow side with the short end of the brick exposed
Sailor = A brick laid vertically with the broad face of the brick exposed
Saw tooth = A course of headers laid at a 45-degree angle to the main face.
Shear wall = A wall designed to give way in the event of structural failure in order to preserve the integrity of the remaining building.
Shiner = A brick laid on the long narrow side with the broad face of the brick exposed
Sleeper wall = A low wall whose function is to provide support, typically to floor joists.
Slip = A thin cut of brick, sometimes referred to as a tile[2]- used on internal spaces or in cladding systems.
Snapped header = A half-bat laid to appear as a header. Commonly used to build short-radii half-brick walls or decorative features.
Soldier = A brick laid vertically with its long narrow side exposed
Squint = A brick that is specially made to bond around external quoins of obtuse angles. Typically 60 or 45 degrees.
Stopped end = The end of a wall that does not abut any other component.
Stretcher = A brick laid flat with its long narrow side exposed
Toothing = The forming of a temporary stopped end in such a way as to allow the bond to continue at a later date as the work proceeds.
Tumbling in = Bonding a battered buttress or breast into a horizontal wall.
Voussoir = A supporting brick in an arch, usually shaped to ensure that the joints appear even.
Withe = The central wall dividing two shafts. Most commonly to divide flues within a chimney.
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