Paperhangers

What Does a Paperhangers Do?

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.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Smooth strips or sections of paper with brushes or rollers to remove wrinkles and bubbles and to smooth joints.
• 2Trim rough edges from strips, using straightedges and trimming knives.
• 3Trim excess material at ceilings or baseboards, using knives.
• 4Check finished wallcoverings for proper alignment, pattern matching, and neatness of seams.
• 5Mark vertical guidelines on walls to align strips, using plumb bobs and chalk lines.
• 6Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, using hand tools.
• 7Apply adhesives to the backs of paper strips, using brushes, or dunk strips of prepasted wallcovering in water, wiping off any excess adhesive.
• 8Measure and cut strips from rolls of wallpaper or fabric, using shears or razors.

Required Skills

• A-Systems JobView
• Construction Software Center EasyEst
• Corel Painter
• Electronic data interchange EDI software
• Google Docs
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• On Center Quick Bid
• PlanSwift
• Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal

Paperhangers Salary