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O*NET detailed work activityApply decorative masonry finishes
Stays humanHands-on work
3 jobs8 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Apply decorative finishes, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Sprinkle colored marble or stone chips, powdered steel, or coloring powder over surface to produce prescribed finish.
- Sprinkle colored marble or stone chips, powdered steel, or coloring powder over surface to produce prescribed finish.
- Push roller over surface to embed chips in surface.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Cut metal division strips and press them into the terrazzo base for joints or changes of color to form designs or patterns or to help prevent cracks.
- Remove wedges, fill joints between stones, finish joints between stones, using a trowel, and smooth the mortar to an attractive finish, using a tuck pointer.
- Blend marble chip mixtures, place into panels, and push a roller over the surface to embed the chips.
- Cut metal division strips, and press them into terrazzo base so that top edges form desired design or pattern.
- Position mold along guidelines of wall, press mold in place, and remove mold and paper from wall.