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