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Job Description
Cover interior walls or ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, or attach advertising posters on surfaces such as walls and billboards. May remove old materials or prepare surfaces to be papered.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-2142.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 36,470.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 17.00
- Currently, there are 3,190 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Paperhangers”.
Also Known As…
- Paperhangers
- Wallpaper Installer
- Wallpaper Hanger
- Wall Covering Installer
- Wall Covering Contractor
- Vinyl Hanger
- Paperhanger
- Paper Hanger
- Hanger
- Bill Poster
- Bill Board Poster
- Wallpaperer
- Wallcovering Hanger
- Vinyl Installer
- Paperhanger Apprentice
- Paperhanger and Painter
- Interior Decorator, Paperhanging
- Billboard Poster
- Bill Poster Installer
Tasks for “Bill Poster”
- Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- Remove paint, varnish, dirt, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solutions.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Apply acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Mix paste, using paste powder and water, and brush paste onto surfaces.
- Measure and cut strips from rolls of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razors.
- Apply adhesives to the backs of paper strips, using brushes, or dunk strips of prepasted wallcovering in water, wiping off any excess adhesive.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
Related Technology & Tools
- Extension ladders
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Tablet computers
- Broad knives
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Length measuring counters
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Pneumatic staplers
- Aluminum straightedges
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Personal computers
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Plumb lines
- Step ladders
- Rolling scaffolds
- Seam rollers
- Paste brushes
- Measuring tapes
- Laptop computers
- Electric bucket heaters
- Perforating rollers
- Razor blade dispensers
- Paste beaters
- Wallpaper shears
- Paste syringes
- Border holdups
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Paste board clamps
- Pulleys
- Hand trowels
- Paste tables
- Chalk line markers
- Wallpaper steamers
- Break off knives
- Laser levels
- Drywall power sanders
- Wallpaper scissors
- Straight edge trimmers
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- A-Systems Jobview
- Microsoft Excel
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- On Center Quick Bid
- PlanSwift