Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Prepare to replace half leather sole
- Inspect shoes, identify repair materials and advise customer on costs prior to commencing shoe repair
- Prepare and review job sheet to ensure all requirements are included
- Determine appropriate method of replacing sole and heel, and select, check and prepare appropriate tools and materials
- Apply workplace procedures
- Prepare sole
- Remove top lifts and soles back to waist using the appropriate method and tools, ensuring no damage to the shoe
- Select replacement sole material of suitable thickness, and top pieces and lifts, appropriate to original footwear
- Mark waist using the new half sole as a guide, ensuring waist marks are equal on both items of footwear
- Skive half sole in a half moon shape, and taper from the waist mark to the toe consistent with workplace requirements
- Secure lasting margin, patch where necessary, and check or replace fillers, as required
- Scour half sole prior to securing
- Replace and finish sole
- Apply adhesive evenly to both bottom of shoe and sole and top lifts, leave to dry and reactive the adhesive
- Position sole and top lifts and secure using appropriate manual and machine operations
- Check quality of adhesion, adjust, as required, and stitch sole using a sole stitching machine, if required
- Trim edges of soles and top lifts manually or by machine
- Ink or stain edges and heel lifts to match original shoe colour, polish and finish off
- Clean, stain or colour and finish waist to the original colour
- Package, label and store repaired shoes and maintain records