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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 Board Poster
- Wallpaperer
- Wallcovering Hanger
- Vinyl Installer
- Paperhanger Apprentice
- Paperhanger and Painter
- Interior Decorator, Paperhanging
- Billboard Poster
- Bill Poster Installer
- Bill Poster
Tasks for “Bill Poster”
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
- Mix paste, using paste powder and water, and brush paste onto surfaces.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Remove paint, varnish, dirt, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solutions.
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
- Measure and cut strips from rolls of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razors.
- Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
- Apply acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- 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
- Length measuring counters
- Razor blade dispensers
- Hand trowels
- Electric bucket heaters
- Step ladders
- Paste board clamps
- Straight edge trimmers
- Wallpaper shears
- Extension ladders
- Paste beaters
- Chalk line markers
- Tablet computers
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Border holdups
- Perforating rollers
- Paste syringes
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Paste brushes
- Laptop computers
- Laser levels
- Break off knives
- Measuring tapes
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Broad knives
- Pulleys
- Plumb lines
- Paste tables
- Rolling scaffolds
- Aluminum straightedges
- Drywall power sanders
- Wallpaper scissors
- Personal computers
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Wallpaper steamers
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Pneumatic staplers
- Seam rollers
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