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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
- Paper Hanger
- Hanger
- Bill Poster
- Bill Board Poster
- Wallpaperer
- Wallcovering Hanger
- Vinyl Installer
- Paperhanger Apprentice
- Paperhanger and Painter
- Paperhanger
- Interior Decorator, Paperhanging
- Billboard Poster
- Bill Poster Installer
Tasks for “Paperhanger”
- 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.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- 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.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- Apply acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
- Mix paste, using paste powder and water, and brush paste onto surfaces.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Remove paint, varnish, dirt, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solutions.
Related Technology & Tools
- Pneumatic staplers
- Plumb lines
- Straight edge trimmers
- Aluminum straightedges
- Tablet computers
- Electric bucket heaters
- Step ladders
- Rolling scaffolds
- Extension ladders
- Perforating rollers
- Paste beaters
- Paste tables
- Hand trowels
- Pulleys
- Paste syringes
- Border holdups
- Laser levels
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Chalk line markers
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Wallpaper scissors
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Wallpaper shears
- Razor blade dispensers
- Break off knives
- Paste board clamps
- Personal computers
- Paste brushes
- Laptop computers
- Drywall power sanders
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Wallpaper steamers
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Measuring tapes
- Broad knives
- Length measuring counters
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Seam rollers
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
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