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