Course Title: Install flooring systems

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C3320 Certificate III in Carpentry

Course Title: Install flooring systems

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 40

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Important Information:

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Course Contact: Program Manager

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468

Course Contact Email: vehs@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to plan, prepare, set out and install timber flooring systems to support imposed loads. It includes application in brick veneer, full masonry and timber frame construction

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

CPCCOHS2001A Apply OHS requirements, policies and procedures in the construction industry



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

CPCCCA3003A Install flooring systems

Elements:

1. Plan and prepare

2. Set out sub-floor frame

3. Install timber bearers

4. Install timber floor joists.

5. Install flooring.

6. Clean up.

Learning Outcomes

Element

Chapter reference

Content reference

Relevant worksheets and questions (by chapter)
  1. Plan and prepare.

Chapter 7: Installing flooring systems

Building subfloor walls and piers (see also under the sub-heading ‘Providing subfloor support for floor framing’)

Student activity 7.2 – Subfloors

Worksheet 1 – Q1–2, 4–6, 8–11
  1. Set out sub-floor frame.

Chapter 7: Installing flooring systems

Building subfloor walls and piers (see under sub-heading ‘Setting out the subfloor frame’)

Student activity 7.3 – Subfloor frames

Worksheet 1 – Q3
  1. Install timber bearers.

Chapter 7: Installing flooring systems

Building subfloor walls and piers (see under sub-heading ‘Installing timber bearers’)

Student activity 7.4 – Strip flooring calculation

Worksheet 1 – Q3, 7, 12
  1. Install timber floor joists.

Chapter 7: Installing flooring systems

Building subfloor walls and piers (see under sub-heading ‘Installing timber floor joists’)

Student activity 7.5 – Safe work method exercise

Worksheet 1 – Q15–16
  1. Install flooring.

Chapter 7: Installing flooring systems

Types of flooring (see under sub-heading ‘Installing the flooring’)

Student activity 7.7- Research exercise and questions

Worksheet 1 – Q13–14
  1. Clean up.

Chapter 7: Installing flooring systems

Cleaning up

 


Overview of Assessment

This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to read and interpret plans and specifications relevant to construction operations. It includes the identification of types of plans and drawings and their functions, the recognition of commonly used symbols and abbreviations, the identification of key features and specifications on a site plan, the comprehension of written job specifications and the recognition of document status and amendment detail.