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