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