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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
- Paperhanger Apprentice
- Paperhanger and Painter
- Interior Decorator, Paperhanging
- Billboard Poster
- Bill Poster Installer
Tasks for “Vinyl Installer”
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Mix paste, using paste powder and water, and brush paste onto surfaces.
- Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- 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.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- 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.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
- Apply adhesives to the backs of paper strips, using brushes, or dunk strips of prepasted wallcovering in water, wiping off any excess adhesive.
Related Technology & Tools
- Paste tables
- Paste brushes
- Pulleys
- Electric bucket heaters
- Laser levels
- Rolling scaffolds
- Straight edge trimmers
- Pneumatic staplers
- Paste board clamps
- Perforating rollers
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Laptop computers
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Wallpaper shears
- Border holdups
- Plumb lines
- Length measuring counters
- Chalk line markers
- Paste beaters
- Seam rollers
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Personal computers
- Paste syringes
- Drywall power sanders
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Aluminum straightedges
- Wallpaper scissors
- Wallpaper steamers
- Tablet computers
- Razor blade dispensers
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Hand trowels
- Extension ladders
- Measuring tapes
- Broad knives
- Step ladders
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Break off knives
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- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- On Center Quick Bid
- PlanSwift
- Microsoft Excel
- Construction Software Center EasyEst