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