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