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