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