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