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