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