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