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