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