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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.
- 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.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
Related Technology & Tools
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Perforating rollers
- Aluminum straightedges
- Hand trowels
- Laptop computers
- Step ladders
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Plumb lines
- Wallpaper scissors
- Paste beaters
- Paste board clamps
- Paste brushes
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Wallpaper steamers
- Broad knives
- Paste tables
- Electric bucket heaters
- Wallpaper shears
- Laser levels
- Break off knives
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Rolling scaffolds
- Personal computers
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Tablet computers
- Pulleys
- Extension ladders
- Chalk line markers
- Pneumatic staplers
- Paste syringes
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Border holdups
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Razor blade dispensers
- Measuring tapes
- Straight edge trimmers
- Drywall power sanders
- Seam rollers
- Length measuring counters
- PlanSwift
- On Center Quick Bid
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- Microsoft Excel
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- A-Systems Jobview