Skilled Trades
Home Renovations Training
Wanna Trade?
Train for a career with a future.
Current programs:
Home Renovation
Want to be your own boss?
Turn your home-renovation hobby into a successful business! This Home Renovations training program will give you the technical expertise and business planning skills you need to launch your own home renovation business.
Generally, Home Renovators make additions or changes to a home. Renovations can include adding a bedroom or bathroom, updating a kitchen or finishing a basement. Along with construction work, renovators are often required to find new renovation projects through promoting their services.
26 Weeks of
In-Class and Hands-On Training
- First Aid/CPR, Fall Arrest, WHMIS, Hilti
- Blueprint reading
- Estimating
- Visio
- Construction business management
- Marketing & communications for the construction industry
- Software fundamentals
- Hand & power tools
- Flooring
- Roofing
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- Interior & exterior finishes
- Plumbing (intro)
- Electrical (intro)
- Painting
- Tiling
- Foundations & floors
- Skylights
- Decks
- Stairs
- Energy Star Building Practices
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For more than 10 years, The Centre for Skills Development & Training has been preparing students for rewarding careers in the skilled trades. The Centre offers small classes, personalized attention from highly qualified instructors, and business planning skills to help you launch your home renovation business.
Need to upgrade your math and reading skills? The Centre’s Doorways program provides free academic upgrading.
Job Search Assistance
The program is 26 weeks and is offered in our Burlington location.
Next information session: See the Get Job Ready--Fast page.
Next program start: Phone for information
For more details about this program or to attend a free information session, call 905-333-3499 ext. 121, or
1-888-315-5521 ext. 121, or email trades@thecentre.on.ca.
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NEW! Smart Modules
Smart Modules are...focused, fast and convenient programs to build your skills. Taught by qualified instructors with industry experience. Evening classes to help you fit training into your busy life.
Kitchen Renovation Smart Module
If you're a home reno pro, or just getting started, there are kitchen-specific techniques that will help you bring that vision of a gourmet kitchen to life. The Kitchen Renovation Smart Module will take you from design and demolition, to framing and finishing.
Bon appetit!
- Design
- Planning
- Outsourcing
- Hand & Power Tools
- Demolition: shutting down utilities; removing fixtures, cabinetry, walls, flooring
- Framing
- Rough-ins: Electrical, Plumbing, Venting
- Insulation
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- Drywall, Taping, Finishing
- Trim Carpentry
- Cabinet Installation
- Flooring
- Painting & Caulking
- Fixture Installations
- Permits & Plans
- Ontario Building Code
- BluePrint Reading
- Trade Calculations
- Estimating
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The program involves 12 weeks of in-class training (2 nights per week, 4 hours per night) and is offered in our Burlington location.
Next program start: Phone for information
For more details about our programs or to attend a free information session, call 905-333-3499 ext. 121 or 1-888-315-5521 ext. 121, or email trades@thecentre.on.ca.
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