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