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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”
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- 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.
- Apply adhesives to the backs of paper strips, using brushes, or dunk strips of prepasted wallcovering in water, wiping off any excess adhesive.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
- Apply acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- 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.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- Measure and cut strips from rolls of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razors.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
Related Technology & Tools
- Electric bucket heaters
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Paste board clamps
- Paste syringes
- Pneumatic staplers
- Drywall power sanders
- Pulleys
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Measuring tapes
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Plumb lines
- Wallpaper scissors
- Broad knives
- Border holdups
- Laser levels
- Wallpaper steamers
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Laptop computers
- Rolling scaffolds
- Extension ladders
- Break off knives
- Straight edge trimmers
- Wallpaper shears
- Aluminum straightedges
- Paste beaters
- Step ladders
- Razor blade dispensers
- Tablet computers
- Perforating rollers
- Personal computers
- Chalk line markers
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Paste brushes
- Paste tables
- Hand trowels
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Length measuring counters
- Seam rollers
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