Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work
- Identify and follow work health and safety, legislative and organisational requirements
- Correctly identify work requirements and process from review of documentation
- Confirm subfloor suitability for installation consistent with Australian Standards and manufacturer recommendations
- Select underlays adhesives, trims and accessories based on job requirements
- Select and check tools, equipment and materials prior to use to ensure that they are appropriate for the work, serviceable and in a safe condition
- Plan sequence of work, including the starting point, to ensure efficiency and quality of installation.
- Set out materials for installation
- Check flooring against work order and acclimatise in accordance with manufacturer recommendations
- Organise pre-finished, engineered or direct stick timber flooring for fixing and use in accordance with relevant safety management requirements
- Remove or undercut skirting boards or cover trims, if required, and store for re-fitting or send for machining in accordance with job requirements
- Prepare required adhesives and accessories for use in accordance with manufacturer instructions
- Establish working lines and starting point
- Prepare and cut flooring
- Follow instructions and sequence for laying and fixing
- Lay appropriate underlay in accordance with manufacturer recommendations
- Lay out flooring to meet directional sequence, pattern match, specification requirements, and minimising waste and joins
- Maximise the aesthetics of materials, where appropriate, by matching grains and colours
- Accurately and clearly mark flooring for cutting
- Cut timber flooring to length and size for final laying ensuring minimum waste.
- Lay flooring
- Organise materials for fixing and use in accordance with safety management requirements
- Prepare required adhesives and accessories for use
- Use fixing methods and equipment in accordance with manufacturer recommendations
- Allow appropriate field and perimeter expansion joints
- Fit and/or re-fit skirting boards or cover trims and finish in accordance with job requirements
- Inspect finished job and rectify any imperfections in accordance with workplace procedures
- Complete housekeeping
- Store and recycle unused materials in accordance with workplace procedures
- Check, clean and store tools and equipment in accordance with workplace procedures
- Clean work area and dispose of rubbish safely
- Accurately complete required workplace documentation
- Identify and follow work health and safety, legislative and organisational requirements
- Correctly identify work requirements and process from review of documentation
- Confirm subfloor suitability for installation consistent with Australian Standards and manufacturer recommendations
- Select underlays adhesives, trims and accessories based on job requirements
- Select and check tools, equipment and materials prior to use to ensure that they are appropriate for the work, serviceable and in a safe condition
- Plan sequence of work, including the starting point, to ensure efficiency and quality of installation.