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