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