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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”
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to surfaces.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Remove paint, varnish, dirt, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solutions.
- Measure and cut strips from rolls of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razors.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
- Remove old paper, using water, steam machines, or solvents and scrapers.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- 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.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
Related Technology & Tools
- Wallpaper steamers
- Border holdups
- Step ladders
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Hand trowels
- Paste brushes
- Wallpaper shears
- Pulleys
- Paste tables
- Electric bucket heaters
- Laptop computers
- Broad knives
- Rolling scaffolds
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Straight edge trimmers
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Measuring tapes
- Plumb lines
- Aluminum straightedges
- Perforating rollers
- Wallpaper scissors
- Length measuring counters
- Tablet computers
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Paste beaters
- Personal computers
- Break off knives
- Pneumatic staplers
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Paste board clamps
- Chalk line markers
- Extension ladders
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Drywall power sanders
- Razor blade dispensers
- Seam rollers
- Paste syringes
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Laser levels
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- A-Systems Jobview
- Microsoft Excel
- PlanSwift
- On Center Quick Bid
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal