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