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