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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
- Bill Poster Installer
Tasks for “Hanger”
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- 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 excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- 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.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- 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.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
- Apply acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- 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.
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
- 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.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
Related Technology & Tools
- Wallpaper scissors
- Personal computers
- Paste board clamps
- Wallpaper shears
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Tablet computers
- Paste brushes
- Chalk line markers
- Laser levels
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Border holdups
- Electric bucket heaters
- Hand trowels
- Straight edge trimmers
- Measuring tapes
- Aluminum straightedges
- Wallpaper steamers
- Length measuring counters
- Pneumatic staplers
- Break off knives
- Paste syringes
- Drywall power sanders
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Laptop computers
- Perforating rollers
- Seam rollers
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Rolling scaffolds
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Paste tables
- Pulleys
- Plumb lines
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Broad knives
- Extension ladders
- Razor blade dispensers
- Step ladders
- Paste beaters
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- A-Systems Jobview
- PlanSwift
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- On Center Quick Bid
- Microsoft Excel