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