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