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