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