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