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