Paperhangers

Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, or attach advertising posters on surfaces, such as walls and billboards. Duties include removing old materials from surface to be papered.

Job Task

• Measures walls and ceiling to compute number and length of strips required to cover surface.
• Fills holes and cracks with plaster, using trowel.
• Removes paint, varnish, and grease from surfaces, using paint remover and water soda solution.
• Erects and works from scaffold.
• Applies thinned glue to waterproof porous surfaces, using brush, roller, or pasting machine.
• Measures and cuts strips from roll of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razor.
• Trims rough edges from strips, using straightedge and trimming knife.
• Trims excess material at ceiling or baseboard, using knife.
• Smoothes strips or poster sections with brush or roller to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
• Aligns and places strips or poster sections of billboard on surface to match adjacent edges.
• Mixes paste, using paste-powder and water, and brushes paste onto surface.
• Marks vertical guideline on wall to align first strip, using plumb bob and chalkline.
• Applies acetic acid to damp plaster to prevent lime from bleeding through paper.
• Staples or tacks advertising posters onto fences, walls, or poles.
• Removes old paper, using water, steam machine, or chemical remover and scraper.
• Smoothes rough spots on walls and ceilings, using sandpaper.

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