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