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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
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Paperhangers”.
Also Known As…
- Paperhangers
- Wallpaper Installer
- Wallpaper Hanger
- Wall Covering Installer
- Wall Covering Contractor
- Vinyl Hanger
- Paperhanger
- Hanger
- Bill Poster
- Bill Board Poster
- Wallpaperer
- Wallcovering Hanger
- Vinyl Installer
- Paperhanger Apprentice
- Paperhanger and Painter
- Paper Hanger
- Interior Decorator, Paperhanging
- Billboard Poster
- Bill Poster Installer
Tasks for “Paper Hanger”
- Measure and cut strips from rolls of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razors.
- Apply sizing to seal surfaces and maximize adhesion of coverings to 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.
- 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.
- Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
- Smooth rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- 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.
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- Set up equipment, such as pasteboards and scaffolds.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- 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 shears
- Laptop computers
- Paste beaters
- Pneumatic staplers
- Paste board clamps
- Broad knives
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Wallpaper steamers
- Border holdups
- Seam rollers
- Plumb lines
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Straight edge trimmers
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Razor blade dispensers
- Chalk line markers
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Pulleys
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Wallpaper scissors
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Measuring tapes
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Break off knives
- Drywall power sanders
- Length measuring counters
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Personal computers
- Perforating rollers
- Rolling scaffolds
- Paste brushes
- Aluminum straightedges
- Hand trowels
- Step ladders
- Paste syringes
- Paste tables
- Laser levels
- Tablet computers
- Electric bucket heaters
- Extension ladders
- On Center Quick Bid
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- Microsoft Excel
- PlanSwift
- A-Systems Jobview
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal