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