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