Floorlayer apprentice
LA FLOORING LTD
Cramlington (NE23 6XW)
Closes in 11 days (Friday 28 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 14 November 2025
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Summary
As a Floor Layer Apprentice, through this apprenticeship you will learn how to install and finish a wide range of flooring including vinyl, wood, carpet, tiles, rubber, and plastics, in both domestic and commercial settings. You will gain practical experience, expert guidance, and industry recognised skills that set you up for a secure, rewarding trade.
- Wage
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£15,311.40 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Floorlayer - textile and resilient (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, with optional Saturday shifts.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 December 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Work safely and efficiently on site, maintaining high levels of customer care, especially in domestic environments
- Support the safe handling, movement, and disposal of waste materials, flooring products, tools, and equipment, using manual techniques or mechanical aids/lifting equipment
- Assist with storing materials, tools, and equipment correctly, ensuring they are kept in a safe, secure, and organised manner
- Assess and test existing floor surfaces, checking factors such as temperature (including underfloor heating), moisture levels, flatness, and general sub-floor condition
- Help plan the installation process, including phasing work, preparing materials, and acclimatising flooring products before installation
- Estimate quantities of materials needed, using manufacturer guidelines and site conditions to ensure accurate resource planning
Where you'll work
Old Stone Road
Cramlington
NE23 6XW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE
Training course
Floorlayer - textile and resilient (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards and guidance.
- Select and use safety control equipment, use personal protective equipment (PPE) and respiratory protective equipment (RPE).
- Verbally communicate with others: For example, employers, colleagues, clients, other trades.
- Use written or digital methods to communicate with others.
- Calculate material quantities, qualities and select required resources.
- Select and use textile and resilient floorcovering tools and equipment.
- Remove and dispose of existing floorcovering.
- Isolate, protect and prepare the work area.
- Test the subfloor condition prior to the application of the smoothing compound and fabricated underlayment: for example, remove surface contaminants and laitance, mix and apply moisture control systems, application of primers.
- Prepare the sub floor for the floorcovering: for example, installation of fabricated underlayments, mixing and application of smoothing compounds, installation of sheet membranes.
- Interpret and use information from drawings, specifications, work instructions.
- Carry out remedial works on textile and resilient flooring.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Carry out pre-user checks, use and maintain plant and equipment. Escalate defects or faults.
- Store tools, materials and equipment.
- Measures, marks and sets out floorcoverings.
- Use of tools and equipment required for the preparation and installation of resilient and textile floorcovering including setting out, stretching, cutting, adhesives, joining and finishing.
- Determine correct textile pile direction for the installation area.
- Carry out pattern matching for textile or resilient floorcovering.
- Apply installation techniques for underlayments for textile floorcoverings.
- Applies installation technique for resilient sheet for example tiled, flat fit, site formed (cap and cove) and joins.
- Applies installation techniques for textile floorcovering, for example woven secondary backed, broadloom sheet.
- Applies installation techniques for finishing accessories for example, thresholds, skirtings, profiles, stair nosings and trims.
- Set out horizontal, inclined, stepped and shaped or coved surface, patterned and non-patterned materials.
- Resolves problems with timber subflooring prior to a flooring installation.
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards and guidance.
- Select and use safety control equipment, use personal protective equipment (PPE) and respiratory protective equipment (RPE).
- Verbally communicate with others: For example, employers, colleagues, clients, other trades.
- Use written or digital methods to communicate with others.
- Calculate material quantities, qualities and select required resources.
- Select and use textile and resilient floorcovering tools and equipment.
- Remove and dispose of existing floorcovering.
- Isolate, protect and prepare the work area.
- Test the subfloor condition prior to the application of the smoothing compound and fabricated underlayment: for example, remove surface contaminants and laitance, mix and apply moisture control systems, application of primers.
- Prepare the sub floor for the floorcovering: for example, installation of fabricated underlayments, mixing and application of smoothing compounds, installation of sheet membranes.
- Interpret and use information from drawings, specifications, work instructions.
- Carry out remedial works on textile and resilient flooring.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Carry out pre-user checks, use and maintain plant and equipment. Escalate defects or faults.
- Store tools, materials and equipment.
- Measures, marks and sets out floorcoverings.
- Use of tools and equipment required for the preparation and installation of resilient and textile floorcovering including setting out, stretching, cutting, adhesives, joining and finishing.
- Determine correct textile pile direction for the installation area.
- Carry out pattern matching for textile or resilient floorcovering.
- Apply installation techniques for underlayments for textile floorcoverings.
- Applies installation technique for resilient sheet for example tiled, flat fit, site formed (cap and cove) and joins.
- Applies installation techniques for textile floorcovering, for example woven secondary backed, broadloom sheet.
- Applies installation techniques for finishing accessories for example, thresholds, skirtings, profiles, stair nosings and trims.
- Set out horizontal, inclined, stepped and shaped or coved surface, patterned and non-patterned materials.
- Resolves problems with timber subflooring prior to a flooring installation.
Training schedule
- Floorlayer - Textile and Resilient Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard
- Apprentices will attend college on a block-release basis, typically every 6 - 8 weeks, for a two-week training block
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Due to the nature of the role and working in domestic environments, there is a strict no smoking or vaping policy. Odours can be disruptive to customers. The role involves extended periods of standing, walking, and lifting, so a high level of fitness and endurance is essential.
About this employer
At LA flooring, we specialise in delivering high-quality floor laying solutions that transform spaces with precision, style, and durability. With years of hands-on experience and a commitment to craftsmanship, we’ve earned a reputation as trusted flooring experts for both residential and commercial projects. We offer comprehensive floor laying services that cater to a variety of needs and styles. Whether renovating a home, building a new property, or upgrading a commercial space, our team is equipped to handle projects of all sizes.
After this apprenticeship
- Following the completion of the apprenticeship for the right candidate there is a possible permanent position
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000676.
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Closes in 11 days (Friday 28 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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