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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
- Paper Hanger
- Hanger
- Bill Poster
- Bill Board Poster
- Wallpaperer
- Wallcovering Hanger
- Vinyl Installer
- Paperhanger Apprentice
- Paperhanger and Painter
- Paperhanger
- Interior Decorator, Paperhanging
- Billboard Poster
- Bill Poster Installer
Tasks for “Paperhanger”
- Apply acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
- 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.
- Apply thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brushes, rollers, or pasting machines.
- Measure surfaces or review work orders to estimate the quantities of materials needed.
- Fill holes, cracks, and other surface imperfections preparatory to covering surfaces.
- Remove paint, varnish, dirt, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solutions.
- Staple or tack advertising posters onto fences, walls, billboards, or poles.
- Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
- Place strips or sections of paper on surfaces, aligning section edges and patterns.
- Mix paste, using paste powder and water, and brush paste onto surfaces.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
Related Technology & Tools
- Razor blade dispensers
- Broad knives
- Paste brushes
- Straight edge trimmers
- Wallpaper smoothers
- Drywall power sanders
- Paste syringes
- Wallpaper pasting boards
- Plumb lines
- Wallpaper pasting machines
- Measuring tapes
- Wallpaper steamers
- Wallpaper shears
- Seam rollers
- Break off knives
- Chalk line markers
- Perforating rollers
- Laser levels
- Laptop computers
- Pulleys
- Tablet computers
- Paste tables
- Aluminum straightedges
- Electric bucket heaters
- Hand trowels
- Paste beaters
- Length measuring counters
- Border holdups
- Double cutting wallpaper knives
- Wallpaper smoothing brushes
- Personal computers
- Step ladders
- Rolling scaffolds
- Wallpaper booking tables
- Wallpaper scissors
- Pneumatic staplers
- Wallpaper scrapers
- Wallpaper removal sprayers
- Extension ladders
- Paste board clamps
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