CPCCCA3003 - Install flooring systems

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines. Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills: *a bearer and joist system on supports to carry external walls and internal walls parallel to joists for a home or equivalent, not less than 30 square metres, including: - balcony/deck fixings - deep joists *a tongue and groove fitted strip flooring surface, not less than 5 square metres *an approved wet-area floor system, not less than 5 square metres *a sheet platform system for a home or equivalent, not less than 10 square metres. Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge: *compliance requirements of the National Construction Code including requirements for attachment of decks, Australian Standards and National Association of Steel-Framed Housing (NASH) Standards relevant to installing flooring systems *workplace quality policies and standards for installing flooring systems *safety requirements for installing flooring systems *requirements and arrangements for installing damp proof systems and termite barriers *floor and flooring system types, characteristics, construction methods and installation techniques *application of the following floor framing: - premanufactured joists - conventional bearers and joists - drop-in (or in-line or deep) joist construction - sub-floor frame, including timber or steel - sub-floor support construction *flooring support systems: - concrete stumps - masonry piers - patented adjustable supports - steel posts - timber or brick walls - timber stumps *flooring system materials and their uses as required by the National Construction Code (NCC) and other legislation: - strip flooring - engineered products - floor boards - sheet products *acclimatisation of flooring materials *types of imposed loads and their effects *types of insulation products *plans, specifications and drawings for installing flooring systems *types and uses of tools and equipment used to install flooring systems *processes for calculating material requirements to minimise waste when installing flooring systems *regulatory requirements applicable to floor framing and flooring *setting out and levelling techniques.