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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...

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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,...

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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,...

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