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