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