Taper Seal joints between plasterboard or other wallboard to prepare wall surface for painting or papering.
Taper is Also Know as
In different settings, Taper is titled as
- Drywall Finisher
- Drywall Mechanic
- Drywall Taper
- Finisher
- Taper
Education and Training of Taper
Taper is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Taper
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Taper
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Taper
Training Required for Taper
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Taper in different industries are
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
- Tile and Stone Setters
- Roofers
- Construction Laborers
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Carpenters
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers
- Terrazzo Workers and Finishers
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Floor Sanders and Finishers
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Painters, Construction and Maintenance
- Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
What Do Taper do?
- Remove extra compound after surfaces have been covered sufficiently.
- Spread sealing compound between boards or panels or over cracks, holes, nail heads, or screw heads, using trowels, broadknives, or spatulas.
- Press paper tape over joints to embed tape into sealing compound and to seal joints.
- Mix sealing compounds by hand or with portable electric mixers.
- Spread and smooth cementing material over tape, using trowels or floating machines to blend joints with wall surfaces.
- Seal joints between plasterboard or other wallboard to prepare wall surfaces for painting or papering.
- Sand or patch nicks or cracks in plasterboard or wallboard.
- Use mechanical applicators that spread compounds and embed tape in one operation.
- Apply additional coats to fill in holes and make surfaces smooth.
- Install metal molding at wall corners to secure wallboard.
- Sand rough spots of dried cement between applications of compounds.
- Countersink nails or screws below surfaces of walls before applying sealing compounds, using hammers or screwdrivers.
- Select the correct sealing compound or tape.
- Apply texturizing compounds or primers to walls or ceilings before final finishing, using trowels, brushes, rollers, or spray guns.
- Check adhesives to ensure that they will work and will remain durable.
- Work on high ceilings, using scaffolding or other tools, such as stilts.
Qualities of Good Taper
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
Tools Used by Taper
- Air compressors
- Application brushes
- Automatic taping tools
- Banjo drywall tapers
- Corner knives
- Corner rollers
- Drywall knockdown knives
- Drywall mud mixers
- Drywall power sanders
- Drywall saws
- Drywall stilts
- Drywall taping knives
- Drywall trowels
- Dust masks
- Feather edge drywall darbies
- Goggles
- Hand operated spray guns
- Hopper guns
- Industrial vacuums
- Joint knives
- Ladders
- Mud mixing drills
- Notebook computers
- Patch guns
- Personal computers
- Pivoting drywall knives
- Putty knives
- Radius trowels
- Scaffolding
- Screwdrivers
- Texture brushes
- Texture rollers
- Texture sprayers
- Utility knives
- Wall scrapers
- Wipe-down knives
Technology Skills required for Taper
- Applied Computer Systems JOBPOWER
- Construction Software Center EasyEst
- DevWave Estimate Works
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Microsoft Office software
- On Center Quick Bid
- Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal