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