Traditional Basic Hard Metal Craft
This is a five-day City & Guilds Accredited Programme run by the Lead Sheet Training Academy.
Course fees are £800, plus VAT, per person.
If your company is CITB registered, training funds are available to cover 70% of the cost of the course.
Traditional Basic Hard Metal Craft (A City & Guilds Accredited Programme)
This is an introductory course for those with little or no experience of Hard Metal (Zinc). It covers basic techniques for shaping and creating effective joints between sheets of hard metal and soldering of joints the two skills most used by today’s Hard Metal workers.
Shaping, soldering, and creating joints is the method used for Zinc and other hard metals into complex shapes and joints without leaving tool marks or causing any significant reduction in the thickness of the metal. Soldering is the alternative method for shaping Zinc or other hard metals and can also be used when sheets need to be joined together. Both methods must be achieved neatly and without compromising the weatherproofing quality of the installation. They demand a high degree of skill and knowledge.
Traditional Basic Hard Metal Craft (five days)
This course has two parts, Soldering & Shaping they can be delivered as a one-week course, or the course can be taken as two modular blocks each of three days. Below is the content of the course delivery.
Dog ear corner
Swept abutment
Soldered Joints
Pinched seam
External corner soldered
Welted verge
External corner soldered
Neoprene expansion joint
Clipping
Double lock welt
Standing seam welted end
Single lock welt
Saddle piece
Riveted joint
Dog tooth end
Eaves apron trim
Swept end
Pinched seam
Each element is checked to ensure quality and conformity to specification and best practice.
At the end of the candidates are formally assessed on forming a Pinched seam.