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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”
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
- Apply acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- 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.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Measure and cut strips from rolls of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razors.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- Remove paint, varnish, dirt, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solutions.
- Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
- Mix paste, using paste powder and water, and brush paste onto surfaces.
Related Technology & Tools
- Pulleys
- Straight edge trimmers
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Pneumatic staplers
- Break off knives
- Hand trowels
- Rolling scaffolds
- Paste tables
- Aluminum straightedges
- Measuring tapes
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Paste syringes
- Step ladders
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Paste brushes
- Plumb lines
- Laser levels
- Drywall power sanders
- Paste beaters
- Chalk line markers
- Border holdups
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Length measuring counters
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Wallpaper shears
- Extension ladders
- Wallpaper scissors
- Broad knives
- Razor blade dispensers
- Paste board clamps
- Wallpaper steamers
- Tablet computers
- Personal computers
- Laptop computers
- Perforating rollers
- Electric bucket heaters
- Seam rollers
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- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- Microsoft Excel
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal