Become a DIY expert and improve your living space on your own with this free online home improvement course. We often employ the services of a professional for our home improvements. But what if we could do it all ourselves? This course will teach you how to renovate your home's indoor and outdoor layouts. You'll learn how to build and repair walls, floors, patios, decks, garden structures, landscaping and more. In addition, we will teach you proper plumbing techniques and how to prevent and protect your home from dampness, rot and pest invasions.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195840 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • State the role of an interior designer in the home improvement industry • Relate how the physical nature of DIY gives a person much-needed exercise and thus a healthy lifestyle • Categorise the different tools that are required for various jobs involved in home renovation • Outline the basic steps involved in painting, wallpapering and tiling the walls • Explain why a clean, level surface is essential for decorating either the walls or floors • Compare the benefit of vinyl flooring over wooden floors • Describe the processes involved in building exterior and interior walls, knocking down walls and repairing cracks and holes in plastered walls and drywall • Discuss how to fix plumbing issues like clogged pipes connected to sinks, basins and baths and replace faucets and toilets • Summarise the processes involved in building patios and decks and also in landscaping the front or back yard • Solve problems involving wet and dry rots, pests and damp in homes |
| Course Code | 4332 |
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