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