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