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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
- Vinyl Installer
- Paperhanger Apprentice
- Paperhanger and Painter
- Interior Decorator, Paperhanging
- Billboard Poster
- Bill Poster Installer
Tasks for “Wallcovering Hanger”
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Apply adhesives to the backs of paper strips, using brushes, or dunk strips of prepasted wallcovering in water, wiping off any excess adhesive.
- Remove paint, varnish, dirt, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solutions.
- 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.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- Measure and cut strips from rolls of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razors.
- Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
- Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
- Mix paste, using paste powder and water, and brush paste onto surfaces.
- 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.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Chalk line markers
- Laser levels
- Tablet computers
- Broad knives
- Razor blade dispensers
- Wallpaper shears
- Electric bucket heaters
- Extension ladders
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Personal computers
- Hand trowels
- Break off knives
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Plumb lines
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Length measuring counters
- Aluminum straightedges
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Pneumatic staplers
- Rolling scaffolds
- Pulleys
- Paste board clamps
- Border holdups
- Straight edge trimmers
- Laptop computers
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Paste tables
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Measuring tapes
- Perforating rollers
- Paste brushes
- Wallpaper steamers
- Paste syringes
- Wallpaper scissors
- Seam rollers
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Drywall power sanders
- Paste beaters
- Step ladders
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- A-Systems Jobview
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- On Center Quick Bid
- Microsoft Excel
- PlanSwift