Part 3 - Use and maintenance of hand and portable power tools and ancillary equipment

Question 1

What are the typical tools used for retrofit insulation work?

Answer 1

Measuring and marking out - spirit levels
Straight edges - used to make sure all the boards flush

Question 2

what tools are used for cutting wool and fibre rolls

Answer 2

Heavy duty scissors - for cutting wool and fibre rolls.

Serrate knives - Used for glass wool, rock wool and wood wool.

insulation cutting sae for use on:
Mineral
EPS - Expanded polystrene

XPS - Extruded polystryene

Multi purpose timming knife - used for scoring and cutting materials.

Multi-foil cutting tool, below and multi foil material.

Multi-rasp plane - For finishing insulation panels
at the edges or shaping them for a tight fit

Question 3

What are associated cutting tools?

Answer 3

Hand saw -
plasterboard saw and drilling - For cutting plasterboard, chipboard or hardboard.

Drilling -

Question 4

What is fixing tools?

Answer 4

clammer hammer

hand help screw drives

caulking mastic gun - used for filing gaps in walls and sealing joints between insulation board, particularly at corners.

heavy duty staplers - stapling multi foils to studs/rafters

Question 5

what are finish tools?

Answer 5

plastering trowel

Taping knife - used for applying adhesive for taping joints on plasterboards.

Question 6

what powerful tools can be used?

Answer 6

18v combined drill driver

18v jig saw

when required, 110v transformer from 230v

Jigsaw - used to shape a new window board as part of IWI.

Hand held, battery-operated mineral wool saw

Mineral wool insulation