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