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CPC30220 Certificate III in Carpentry – RPL

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Please complete this form to help us assess your application. The first step is to provide your contact details so that we can provide feedback on your application and potential enrolment into this course.

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Please answer these questions to help us ensure that your industry experience meets the entry requirements of our qualification program.

By using this application process, we aim to ensure that we can provide the best outcomes for you to apply to your future construction projects.

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Industry Experience

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Less than 1 year

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Welcome to your Application Form Part 2 and Technical Industry Questions – Certificate III in Carpentry

The industry experience questions below provide an indication of the types of tasks you will be required to provide evidence for in an assessment.

Consider each task described and select your answer on how regularly you perform this task safely within tolerance and without defect on the job. Consider this in respect of the last 2 years, as well as what is predicted in the next 6 months.

To meet our entry requirements, you must successfully complete the Technical Industry questionnaire to proceed to enrolment.

Allow up to 20 minutes to complete the entire Application Form.

Provide accurate and honest responses.

Site Safety: Following all WHS requirements, controlling hazards, safe use of tools and equipment, including communicating with workers. Conduct risk assessments and develop SWMS for carpentry related work.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

Site Set Out and Levelling: Setting out L-and T- shape building on a site with fall. Must have 3mm tolerance over minimum diagonal length of 10 metres, and include pads, slabs, strips and piers. Check and measure level using two-peg test using below devices: - Spirit level - Optical or Dumpy level - Water technique - Laser level Establish distances and transfer reduced levels, measuring and recording: - ground levels at respective critical set-out points - heights or levels for building components - heights or levels of ceilings and floors - slab or pad levels for placement of steel columns or masonry piers Determine shooting levels for concrete slabs, excavation or footings.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

Excavation, Formwork, Concrete and Reinforcement: Hand excavating small trenches, place and fix reinforcement materials and formwork for buildings of at least 30 square metres, including stairs and ramps, including; - Preparing substrate - Erecting formwork - Cutting, placing and tying reinforcement - Placing and hand-screeding concrete to required finish Carry out concreting to simple form slabs.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

Scaffolding and working at heights: Erect and dismantle up to 4m of scaffolding with bays and returns, ladder and edge protection. Works safely at heights using fall protection equipment, traversing between anchor points and using restraint techniques.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

Carpentry Materials: Read carpentry plans and prepare detailed list of materials and calculate quantities of each material for; - Wall and roof framing - Internal lining and flooring - External cladding and roofing

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

Flooring: Install bearer and joist systems on supports to carry internal and external walls parallel to joists for at least 30 metres square, including; - Balcony / deck fixings - Deep joists - Install tongue and groove fitted strip floor surface - wet-area floor systems - A sheet platform system for a home or equivalent

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

Wall Frames: Set out, construct and erect timber and steel framed walls to a minimum height of 2.4 metres and floor area of 30 square metres to accommodate roof and ceiling members and different types of cladding or lings, including; - two external load-bearing walls with one window opening and one door opening in each wall - two external straight walls with external intersection - two internal non-load-bearing walls encompassing an internal T junction and an external junction.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

Partitions: Set out, cut and assemble partitions of at least 4.8 metres in length and 1.8 metres in height, including; - An L shape intersection - A T intersection - A window and door panel

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

Ceiling Frames: Set out, construct and erect timber ceiling frame structures for a minimum of three rooms and a minimum of 30 square metres.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

10.

Roof Trusses: Set out and erect timber and steel roof trusses to a minimum of 30 square metres with a major and minor span, including hip end and valleys and gable ends. Install various types of bracing to AS4440.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

11.

Pitched Roofs: Set out, construct and erect: - a skillion roof above 10 degrees for a structure of a minimum 10 square metres - a roof, or a series of roofs, together covering a minimum of 30 square metres, including: - a broken hip and valley - a gable end - a scotch valley setting-out: - a pattern rafter with birdsmouth, creeper reductions and eave over-hang - roof bevels - strutting beams and under purlins as required by span tables in AS 1684

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

12.

Eaves: Cut roof members to line to accommodate plumb fascia and barge and construct; - timber verge gable eaves - timber boxed gable eaves - timber boxed eaves - timber raked eaves - steel fascia with hangers In constructing eaves, include; - apex junction on barge board - a junction between the barge board and the plumb fascia - a junction of the fascia and eave lining at the valley - a junction of the fascia and eave lining at the hip.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

13.

Windows and Doors: Install in wall frames: - standard windows - sliding cavity door units and doors Construct and fit standard external rebated door frames. Fit and hang doors, including door furniture, privacy set and door stops. Fit and hang a pair of doors.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

14.

Timber Stairs: Construct, assemble and install flight of timber external stairs from ground level, including handrails and balustrade to the open side of the flight and landing.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

15.

Exterior Cladding produce set-out rods for a minimum height of 2.1 metre using the effective cover of a weatherboard of a given profile. Install weatherproofing, vapour barriers and flashings. Fix different types of profiled weatherboards to eave height of at least 2.1 metres, incorporating an internal and an external corner with stops, flashings and sarking for a window and a door. Install a minimum of two different types of external cladding panels, incorporating an internal and an external corner, abutting a window or door, and joints between boards determined by the material being used, manufacturers’ recommendations and job specifications. Attach vertical and horizontal cladding to frames.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

16.

Lining, Panelling and Moulding Line continuous walls that include openings with lining boards to a minimum of 3.0 metres by 2.4 metres. Lining continuous walls that include opening with sheet panelling to a minimum of 3.0 metres by 2.4 metres. Fit profiled architraves to a minimum of one door or one window or a combination of both, with specified margins and tight fitting mitre joints cutting and fixing a profiled skirting with a minimum of one internal scribed joint and one external mitre joint with tight fitting joints. Scribing and mitring a Scotia, quad and colonial architrave with a minimum of one internal joint and one external mitre joint with tight fitting joints. Construct raking mould using either an internal scribed or external mitre joint with tight fitting joints.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

17.

Wet Areas Set out and erect timber frame for bath and shower base.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

18.

Bulkheads Construct and install both straight and curved bulkheads in timber or steel measuring a minimum of 2m wide, 300mm heigh and 300mm deep.

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

19.

Demolition Remove ceilings, walls, fixtures and fittings from an external load bearing wall

Weekly

Monthly

Every 3 months

Once or twice a year

Rarely or never

None

20.

If you wish to change the spacings of timber bearers and joists from that indicated on approved plans, you should:

Asked the client for permission

Consult relevant span tables to find substitute material and seek permission from the responsible person i.e. licensed builder, engineer or certifier

You can never under any circumstances deviate from the approved plans

None

21.

How would you anchor timber bearers to brick piers?

This is only required in high wind areas

This is not required as the weight of the proceeding structure will be sufficient to hold the building in place

With the aid of strapping and/or bolts or nominated fixings

None

22.

During sub floor construction, what is the intended purpose of ant caps?

Ant caps prevent termites from entering a timber structure

Ant caps do not stop termites but make their entry to a timber structure more obvious

Ant caps no longer serve any useful purpose.

None

23.

What grade of treated pine is suitable for use as piers that will be cemented into the ground?

None

24.

Where is it suitable to use H2 treated timber?

Can be cemented into the ground provided a suitable preservative is applied to the portion that will sit underground

Cannot be cemented into the ground and can only be used if the material is totally protected from the elements.

Can be used externally and exposed to the weather but cannot be placed into the ground

None

25.

For a timber framed wall, what is the main reason why plywood bracing would be specified instead of diagonal bracing?

Plywood bracing can be used when an insufficient angle can be applied for diagonal bracing to be effective

It is quicker and easier to install than diagonal bracing

It is cheap and readily available

None

26.

During wall frame construction, what is a lintel used for?

A lintel is used over an opening and is its main purpose is provide a fixing point for cladding

A lintel is only ever used in brick and blockwork

A lintel is intended to transfer the load from the top of the opening to the studs positioned at the sides.

None

27.

Noggings in wall frames are primarily installed to assist in the installation of exterior cladding.

False

True

None

28.

The best angle to install speed bracing when fixed to a 2400 high wall is 45 degrees.

False

True

None

29.

Stud ties should be used over every corner stud, over openings and then over every second stud.

True

False

None

30.

Which of the following components are not part of a standard ‘A’ type roof truss?

Bottom chord

Web

Common rafter

None

31.

During what part of construction would a collar tie be used?

Floor frames

Wall frames

Conventional roofing structure

None

32.

A ‘Birdsmouth” join should be cut by how much of a rafter width?

33%

50%

75%

None

33.

What is a fascia?

The finish board or metal to which guttering is fixed

The wall of a house that faces north

The finishing sheeting attached to an eave overhang

None

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