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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”
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
- 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.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
- 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.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- 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.
- Apply acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
Related Technology & Tools
- Straight edge trimmers
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Seam rollers
- Perforating rollers
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Plumb lines
- Paste brushes
- Wallpaper scissors
- Paste tables
- Razor blade dispensers
- Hand trowels
- Tablet computers
- Pulleys
- Wallpaper shears
- Broad knives
- Pneumatic staplers
- Rolling scaffolds
- Extension ladders
- Laser levels
- Measuring tapes
- Paste beaters
- Paste board clamps
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Electric bucket heaters
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Drywall power sanders
- Paste syringes
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Chalk line markers
- Length measuring counters
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Border holdups
- Aluminum straightedges
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Step ladders
- Personal computers
- Laptop computers
- Break off knives
- Wallpaper steamers
- PlanSwift
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- Microsoft Excel
- On Center Quick Bid
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- A-Systems Jobview