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