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