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