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