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Tongue Point Job Corps Center
37573 Old Highway 30
Astoria, OR 97103-7000
503-325-2131
 		Plasterer


Plastering Student - All photos provided by courtesy of Job Corps center operators under contract to the US Department of Labor.
To complete his or her Plasterer training, a student must master dozens of skills in the following categories:

Fundamentals of plaster
Characteristics and properties of the basic kinds of plaster, materials used, and how to mix plaster, advantages and limitations of different kinds of plaster.

Preparation and application methods
Apply mortar with hawk and trowel, trim angles with a trowel, identify common texture finish coat, and knowledge of lime and gypsum sandfinishes and proper spraying applications.

Exterior insulation finish systems
Understand mixing techniques, identify tools used to install EIFS, perform caulking operations and back wrap, attach foam manually and with mechanical foam fasteners, use hot wire equipment, lay out and cut aesthetic and expansion joints, embed meshes properly, apply base and finish coats.

Drywall and veneer base hanging and finishing
Hang drywall, apply drywall compound and tape joints properly, two taping systems used for veneer base, tape veneer joints, use a glazed finishing coat, mix and apply glaze coat, mix and apply fireproof materials with both spray and hand application, patch gypsum plaster, portland stucco, EIFS, drywall and conventional gypsum finish coats: smooth finish, sand finish and textured.

Scaffold building


Lathing
Apply metal, paper back lath, channel iron and metal studs; tie metal lath and mechanical screw to proper supports, cut and apply metal trim. Proper handling of rib lath, 2 lath, diamond lath and self-furring lath.

Logo of the Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association of the United States and Canada Tongue Point Job Corps Center's Plasterer program is offered by the Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association of the United States and Canada.


Tongue Point Job Corps Center
offers these vocational training programs on campus:
| Accounting Clerk | Carpentry | Cement Mason | Computer Service Technician | Culinary Arts | Dental Assistant | Electrician Trainee | Facilities Maintenance | Architectural Metal and Glass Works | Landscape Technician | Medical Assistant | Nursing Assistant | Office Assistant | Painter | Plasterer | Seamanship | Welding | Word Processor |


Tongue Point Job Corps Center
"Employability is our business."
37573 Old Highway 30
Astoria, OR 97103-7000
503-325-2131
Fax: 503-325-5375
E-mail: Tita Montero at montero.tita@jobcorps.org
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