Painting And Decorating
Forget all those home makeover TV shows for a minute - much of the work painters and decorators do is nothing like the work carried out in homes! Oil rigs, bridges and steelwork all need heavy-duty coatings. On the other end of the scale, stately homes and plush hotels need painters and decorators who can skilfully apply (expensive!) gold leaf to ornate fixtures and fittings. Painting and Decorating workers need to be able to work out the quantities from on the site measurements or drawings, prepare surfaces, fix wallpaper, apply paints and stain finishes, etc.
