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