Apprentice Carpenter Review

Carpentry Apprentice for a big house builder called Barratt Redrow. Building new build houses. Apprenticeship consists of labouring, carpentry and odd jobs in compound.

General know-how of carpentry jobs. Knowing how to fix things, improving problem solving skills, being independent and improving confidence through doing challenging tasks

It’s was really hard to get into as it didn’t seem to be very well set up, support wise, in the beginning, but once you learnt how the ropes work and spent a bit of time there, you became more confident doing things on your own and could start to enjoy it a bit more.

The college side of it is perfectly structured however the site side not so much. My first day on site, no carpenters knew that I was going to be there which made it seem like it was not well set up at all. It definitely felt like I was thrown in the deep end (which isn’t always a bad thing) but here I think it was done a little too poorly. And going onto now- I haven’t had a consistent mentor for more than a couple months if that, so that would definitely help with my progress if I could have someone more permanent.

I have lots of support from the office and from college but not as much on site, you either sink or swim at the end of the day, it’s more so down to you as an individual

10/10

By giving me a range of different jobs to do and pushing me out my comfort zone

No we don’t really have any of these

Yes

Very well set up and fairly paid. Lots of support and a good introduction to well scheduled full time work.

It gets easier the longer you’re there for. And stay on top of work.