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