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