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