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