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