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