Oily Substance On Bathroom Walls

Then pooled on top of the toilet paper holder.

Oily substance on bathroom walls.

We thought at first it was something from the kids spilled something and maybe didn t clean it up right maybe spilled some kind of candy or our 6 year old niece that visits and doing something. The drips are always on paint. Started noticing this same thing so we never painted the other walls. The drip can start from.

Over the past few years i have found a number of oily yellowish drips in all areas of our home. The ceiling seemed unaffected. What is happening in your bathroom is a common paint problem called surfactant leaching the following is from the paint quality institute. I have tried leaving the window open when showering and even leaving the bathroom door and then both bathroom and bedroom doors open.

It didn t build up it more or less pooled. The wall is an interior wall constructed of wooden studs and 1 2 inch drywall. I d say it s from condensation and the odd collection of goop is from the wall never being completely washed or painted for who knows how long. It would be alot of work to remove it.

We have the wallpaper looking wallboard stuff. Having just cut a hole through the dry wall i can confirm that there are no leaks from the. You need to strip the wall paper strip the walls and start over from bare walls. I have an interior bedroom wall that somehow produces a brown sticky substance that runs down the wall.

Is it something that is leaching out of the paint. That old of a home would have oil based paint and a varnish on the walls. Yellow sap like substance on inside walls over the last month or so we have had random spots of sticky yellow sap on our walls in weird spots. The bathroom is up against the wall to the outside of the house.

They appear on external and internal walls. The condensation causes all the foreign material that is on the wall to coalesce into the water droplets. A few years ago we used kilz primer and painted two of the walls in the bathroom. Several weeks ago the walls in the bathroom began to bleed a mysterious sticky substance some sort of oil.

Then i noticed it on top of the radiator. If you haven t noticed brown spots or streaks on your bathroom walls in the past or anywhere else in your house but start to see them after recently painting the problem could be something called surfactant leaching. What can i do to stop this. In the bathroom i ve noticed that on certain surfaces like the part of the sink that is connected to the wall has some yellow substance in it.