Oily Substance On Bathroom Walls

A few years ago we used kilz primer and painted two of the walls in the bathroom.

Oily substance on bathroom walls.

What is happening in your bathroom is a common paint problem called surfactant leaching the following is from the paint quality institute. Several weeks ago the walls in the bathroom began to bleed a mysterious sticky substance some sort of oil. Having just cut a hole through the dry wall i can confirm that there are no leaks from the. It didn t build up it more or less pooled.

They appear on external and internal walls. Started noticing this same thing so we never painted the other walls. The drip can start from. I have tried leaving the window open when showering and even leaving the bathroom door and then both bathroom and bedroom doors open.

The drips are always on paint. 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 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 looks like water has condensed on the wall but despite repeated cleaning the substance still appears brown and sticky. The bathroom is up against the wall to the outside of the house. Then pooled on top of the toilet paper holder. The condensation causes all the foreign material that is on the wall to coalesce into the water droplets.

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. 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. What can i do to stop this. That old of a home would have oil based paint and a varnish on the walls.

We have the wallpaper looking wallboard stuff. The ceiling seemed unaffected. Is it something that is leaching out of the paint. It would be alot of work to remove it.

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. Then i noticed it on top of the radiator. Over the past few years i have found a number of oily yellowish drips in all areas of our home. You need to strip the wall paper strip the walls and start over from bare walls.