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