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