3 Related Skilled Trades for Bricklayers

The following trades are related to this occupation:

• Restoration Mason

  Construction Voluntary Certification

  Education Requirements: Grade 10 or equivalent.

  Training Hours: Complete 6,000 hours of on-the-job training for this apprenticeship.

  Restoration masons are stone specialists. They prepare mortars, cut out and fill joints, reset copings, and clean stone surfaces. They can drill, grout, and pin fractured stones. They work with brick, stone, and terra cotta blocks in ashlar, rubble, and brickwork. Specialized restoration masons may restore damaged chimneys and foundations in heritage buildings or repair […]

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• Brick and Stone Mason

  Construction Voluntary Certification Certificate of Qualification Exam Red Seal

  Education Requirements: Grade 8 or equivalent.

  Training Hours: Complete 5,600 hours of on-the-job training and three 8-week in-class technical training sessions for this apprenticeship.

  Brick and stone masons construct and repair structures. They may work on walls, arches, paving, floors, fireplaces, chimneys, and smokestacks. Masons can specialize in high-temperature materials, such as fire brick, which are used for industrial furnaces, retorts, and boilers.

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• Refractory Mason

  Construction Voluntary Certification

  Education Requirements: Successful completion of a Certificate of Qualification as a brick and stone mason.

  Training Hours: Complete 3,760 hours of on-the-job training and 240 hours of in-class technical training for this apprenticeship.

  Refractory masons protect structures from high heat by installing special refractory bricks, castables, blankets, plastics, or ceramic coatings to furnaces and kilns. They must be skilled at laying refractory bricks, installing castables, and removing old refractory masonry. This is a specialty trade for those who are certified as brick and stone masons.

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