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