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