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