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