This is a 12-lesson correspondence course, not a Webinar.  The course is about measuring a floor with a Dipstick to meet the requirements of ASTM E 1155.  It turns out that collecting data with a Dipstick is quite easy, but measuring the right amount of data in the right places to meet all the requirements of ASTM E 1155 actually requires study.  We send you the first lesson, the reading material to study, and the first quiz.  The student reads (studies) the reading material then takes the quiz and Emails it to us.  We review the quiz and comment on any wrong answers, either explaining the correct answer or telling the student where to find the answer.

 

If he passes the quiz, we send the next lesson, the next reading material, and the next quiz.  There are four lessons that require actually measuring with the Dipstick and there are four lessons that require processing, editing, and reporting the data.  The student actually sends us the Dipstick data for our review.  We grade the quality of the data collected and the editing and reporting of the data.  This is a very intensive course.  It is not easy.  When the student finishes the course, we guarantee that he will be able to measure any floor to meet the requirements of ASTM E 1155 without outside assistance, and we will provide a certificate in his name.

 

There is no schedule for completing the lessons.  It is up to your student’s schedule to determine how rapidly to complete each lesson.  They can do one or two lessons a day, one a week, or one a month, it does not matter.

 

One nice thing (for you) about having the class done this way is that all the lessons and all the reading assignments are in PDF format.  Although we will only grade one set of quizzes and provide one certification for the person who took the class, your student could then use the training materials to train the rest of your people.  Because every lesson and every quiz will be sent in PDF format, when your student finishes the course, he will have digital copies of every lesson, all the reading materials, and every quiz.  And as he finishes each lesson, he will know the correct answer to each question on each quiz.  If you have one of your “best and brightest” take the class, he can then train your other people using the exact same lessons.  We can also CC you if you like, so you have a second copy of each document.

ASTM E 1155 is the Standard Test Method for measuring FF and FL, and it is used worldwide.  This is only one of a number of different methods used around the world to measure floor flatness and levelness, but it is the most widely used method, the method with the tightest controls, and the method with the greatest success in predicting the utility of the floor from the perspective of flatness and levelness.  Literally billions of square feet of floor have been measured with Dipsticks to get F-Numbers.  If the measured F-Numbers are good, inevitably (without exception) the people who later on use the floors always say that the floors are good.  If the measured F-Numbers are excellent, far above average, the users of the floor always report later that “this is a great floor.”  And the opposite is true, too, when the measured F-Numbers are poor.  ACI says that F-Numbers are the best way to measure floors.

This course is intended to provide you with two different kinds of training:

We will teach you the easiest, fastest way to measure F-Numbers, following every single requirement of ASTM E 1155, and

How to collect, edit, analyze, and report data with the Dipstick, and of course, how to take care of your Dipstick.

These two things are obviously interrelated.  We’ll start first with learning how to measure F-Numbers following the requirements of ASTM E 1155, the Standard Test Method for measuring FF and FL, and then we’ll teach you how to use the Dipstick.  After that, we’ll have you collect some data and send it to us for our review.  We’ll grade you based on the quality of the data you have collected, and we’ll provide feedback on what you did well and what you could improve on.  There is an exam at the end of the class, which is based on the things that you learned in each lesson.  Passing the exam gets you a Face Certificate.

Lesson #1:

How FF and FL relate to the flatness and levelness of floors; how F-Numbers are derived from the raw data that you collect on a floor.  This explains what data we need to collect.  This lesson also tells you how much data you need to collect.  The student takes a quiz, scans it, and E-Mails it to us for our review.

Lesson #2:

The rules of ASTM E 1155.  This is all about where we need to collect the data, and in some cases, where not to collect data.  The student will practice laying out floors with different shapes for measurement, following all the rules.  The student takes a quiz, scans it, and E-Mails it to us for our review.

Lesson #3:

This is a review of the rules of ASTM E1155, more practice on laying out floors with different shapes.  This is necessary because of the many different rules and the importance of this topic.  The student takes a quiz, scans it, and E-Mails it to us for our review.

Lesson #4:

This lesson is all about the nitty-gritty details of how F-Numbers work, and about Minimum Local F-Numbers.  The student takes a quiz, scans it, and E-Mails it to us for our review.

Lesson #5:

The on-board computer: how it works, how to take care of it, how to use it to best advantage.  The student takes a quiz, scans it, and sends it to us for our review.

Lesson #6:

This lesson requires the student to measure a “floor”, which could be a tennis court, warehouse room, or parking lot, and to E-Mail us his data for our review.

Lesson #7:

The student is required to use the various processing and editing tools in the Windows® software provided with the Dipstick.  The student will do this using the data that he collected in Lesson 6.  He will also learn how to collect and report the 2-ft. curvature “Q” along a construction joint as required by ASTM E 1155.  Once again, he E-Mails the data to us for our review.

Lesson # 8:

All about Data Collection Bias and how to make and use a “Test Track” to check the calibration on your Dipstick.  The student measures the “Test Track” he has created, corrects it for Data Collection Bias, and sends the data to us for our review.

Lesson #9:

This lesson is called “Hints and Tips” because it contains all the things that we have found that students typically do wrong.  It contains many “shortcuts” and explanations of the best way to do things based on our many years of experience.  It contains, for example, explanations of how to handle irregular (non-rectangular) floor slabs.  The student takes a quiz, scans it, and E-Mails it to us for our review.

 

Lesson #10:

How to collect data on very large jobs, and how to “merge” data from several different Dipsticks together.  The student merges several of the jobs he has collected during this course and E-Mails the data to us for our review.

Lesson #11:

Everything we have not covered so far. These are things that every tester should know, including how to measure and report to a “Gap Under Straightedge” spec, finding and fixing false readings, interpreting graphs, and how to measure a sloped floor.  The student uses the Dipstick to actually practice the concepts taught in the lesson.  There is also a final review of how to lay out a floor.  Then the student E-Mails the data to us for our review, along with his written quiz.

 

Lesson # 12:

Final Exam

Students who successfully complete this course are awarded the FACE certificate, which basically means that the Face Company is confident that this student can properly lay out and measure a floor in accordance with every rule of ASTM E 1155 without any external assistance

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