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