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“A Home Renovation Technician is a person who renovates homes. It can include anything from putting an addition to a house, re-doing a floor in the house, installing windows are doors, finishing an unfinished basement and building a recreation room.

As a Home Renovation Technician, you have the ability to specialize in certain fields or you can become multi-faceted in with the ability to do mutliple tasks.

Charactertistics of a good Home Renovation Technician include strong math skills as you would be required to do a number of tasks that require measuring and cutting. Additionally, excellent communication skills are required due to the amount of work that you would be required to do in a team setting with other trades workers.

North American Trade Schools training includes the ability to learn and use a number of different tools and materials that are needed for each individual job and project. It also includes a solid foundation in learning building codes.

In addition to the hands-on training that is provided, North American Trade Schools instructors are licensed carpenters, plumbers and electricians. The instructors teach their real-world experience to students with the goal of passing on all of their knowledge and expertise in their respective fields.”

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“My name is Katheryn K. and I’m starting the home renovations course here at NATS. Before I came to NATS I was working in an office for the last fifteen years and you know it wasn’t what I wanted to do, I needed to get my hands dirty and I decided, you know what, I can do this, I’m going to take a shot and jump right in.

I chose NATS because I was looking online and I saw a testimonial by another woman and I thought, you know what, if she can do it so can I. What I like best of the instructors is how knowledgeable they are and how willing they are to help you learn what you need to learn and they won’t stop until you understand it.

What I really enjoy about the campus is the small atmosphere of it the amount of equipment that they have for every students, you’re not waiting, you don’t have to take as many turns and you actually do get a lot of hands on experience.

Something that I learned that mats that I enjoy the most is not only learning how to build roofs and stairs, I actually learned self-confidence and I learned that I am capable of doing things that are typically a man’s job. In five years I see myself owning my own renovating business, flipping homes and renovating older homes, making a little shiny new.

I find it easy to make friends on campus because everyone here is extremely friendly, teachers included and it doesn’t matter what course they’re in, they’re willing to help you with any questions that you may have. My family is very proud that I’m attending NATS, they’re very looking forward to myself renovating all their homes.

They’re very supportive and they’re very willing to help me along the way in any way that they can. If you were undecided about coming to NATS just come out here and come for the tour and see for yourself how wonderful it is out here.”