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