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