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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.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- 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.
- 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 acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- Mix paste, using paste powder and water, and brush paste onto surfaces.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
- Apply adhesives to the backs of paper strips, using brushes, or dunk strips of prepasted wallcovering in water, wiping off any excess adhesive.
- 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.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
Related Technology & Tools
- Chalk line markers
- Broad knives
- Electric bucket heaters
- Extension ladders
- Rolling scaffolds
- Laser levels
- Paste syringes
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Straight edge trimmers
- Laptop computers
- Drywall power sanders
- Paste tables
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Break off knives
- Pneumatic staplers
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Length measuring counters
- Wallpaper shears
- Paste brushes
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Plumb lines
- Personal computers
- Tablet computers
- Measuring tapes
- Pulleys
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Wallpaper scissors
- Wallpaper steamers
- Border holdups
- Razor blade dispensers
- Paste beaters
- Step ladders
- Seam rollers
- Perforating rollers
- Aluminum straightedges
- Hand trowels
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Paste board clamps
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- PlanSwift
- Microsoft Excel
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
- A-Systems Jobview
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- On Center Quick Bid