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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”
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- Remove paint, varnish, dirt, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solutions.
- 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.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
- 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.
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Measure and cut strips from rolls of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razors.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- Apply adhesives to the backs of paper strips, using brushes, or dunk strips of prepasted wallcovering in water, wiping off any excess adhesive.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Straight edge trimmers
- Extension ladders
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Laptop computers
- Rolling scaffolds
- Razor blade dispensers
- Tablet computers
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Paste beaters
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Paste syringes
- Step ladders
- Border holdups
- Wallpaper scissors
- Broad knives
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Drywall power sanders
- Perforating rollers
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Length measuring counters
- Seam rollers
- Laser levels
- Chalk line markers
- Wallpaper shears
- Paste brushes
- Paste board clamps
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Break off knives
- Wallpaper steamers
- Pneumatic staplers
- Hand trowels
- Aluminum straightedges
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Paste tables
- Pulleys
- Plumb lines
- Personal computers
- Measuring tapes
- Electric bucket heaters
- Microsoft Excel
- PlanSwift
- A-Systems Jobview
- On Center Quick Bid
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- Construction Software Center EasyEst