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