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