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Career Details :: Tile and Marble Setters
Description
Apply hard tile, marble, and wood tile to walls, floors, ceilings, and roof decks.
Experience
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful in these occupations, but usually is not needed. For example, a drywall installer might benefit from experience installing drywall, but an inexperienced person could still learn to be an installer with little difficulty.
Education
These occupations usually require a high school diploma and may require some vocational training or job-related course work. In some cases, an associate's or bachelor's degree could be needed.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees.
Tasks
- Installs and anchors fixtures in designated positions, using hand tools.
- Mixes and applies mortar or cement to edges and ends of drain tiles to seal halves and joints.
- Cuts and shapes tile, using tile cutters and biters.
- Selects tile and other items to be installed, such as bathroom accessories, walls, panels, and cabinets, according to specifications.
- Spreads mastic or other adhesive base on roof deck to form base for promenade tile, using serrated spreader.
- Cuts tile backing to required size, using shears.
- Measures and marks surfaces to be tiled and lays out work, following blueprints.
- Tacks lath to wall and ceiling surfaces, using staple gun or hammer.
- Wipes grout between tiles and removes excess, using wet sponge.
- Positions and presses or taps tile with trowel handle to affix tile to plaster or adhesive base.
- Brushes glue onto manila paper on which design has been drawn and positions tile's finished side down onto paper.
- Spreads plaster or concrete over surface to form tile base and levels to specified thickness, using brush, trowel, and screed.
- Measures and cuts metal lath to size for walls and ceilings, using tin snips.
Related Careers
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Ceiling Tile Installers
- Drywall Installers
- Helpers, Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers
- Ship Carpenters and Joiners
- Tapers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
- Analyzing Data or Information
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Hazardous Situations
- Hazardous Situations
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