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