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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
Tasks for “Bill Poster Installer”
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Apply adhesives to the backs of paper strips, using brushes, or dunk strips of prepasted wallcovering in water, wiping off any excess adhesive.
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Remove paint, varnish, dirt, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solutions.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
- 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 acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
Related Technology & Tools
- Wallpaper scissors
- Personal computers
- Length measuring counters
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Drywall power sanders
- Hand trowels
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Paste syringes
- Broad knives
- Pulleys
- Wallpaper steamers
- Wallpaper shears
- Perforating rollers
- Chalk line markers
- Rolling scaffolds
- Break off knives
- Measuring tapes
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Paste brushes
- Tablet computers
- Laser levels
- Step ladders
- Plumb lines
- Paste board clamps
- Paste tables
- Straight edge trimmers
- Extension ladders
- Aluminum straightedges
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Paste beaters
- Electric bucket heaters
- Pneumatic staplers
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Seam rollers
- Laptop computers
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Razor blade dispensers
- Border holdups
- A-Systems Jobview
- Microsoft Excel
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- On Center Quick Bid
- PlanSwift