Oily Substance On Bathroom 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.

Oily substance on bathroom walls.

You need to strip the wall paper strip the walls and start over from bare walls. The wall is an interior wall constructed of wooden studs and 1 2 inch drywall. Over the past few years i have found a number of oily yellowish drips in all areas of our home. What is happening in your bathroom is a common paint problem called surfactant leaching the following is from the paint quality institute.

We have the wallpaper looking wallboard stuff. I have an interior bedroom wall that somehow produces a brown sticky substance that runs down the wall. Then pooled on top of the toilet paper holder. 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. I have tried leaving the window open when showering and even leaving the bathroom door and then both bathroom and bedroom doors open. The ceiling seemed unaffected. 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.

They appear on external and internal walls. What can i do to stop this. It looks like water has condensed on the wall but despite repeated cleaning the substance still appears brown and sticky. Having just cut a hole through the dry wall i can confirm that there are no leaks from the.

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. The bathroom is up against the wall to the outside of the house. All 4 walls in the bathroom were bleeding from top to bottom. I have noticed in the bathroom after recently painting steam seems to leave an oily golden yellow residue dripping down the walls.

Then i noticed it on top of the radiator. The condensation causes all the foreign material that is on the wall to coalesce into the water droplets. Is it something that is leaching out of the paint. A few years ago we used kilz primer and painted two of the walls in the bathroom.

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. The drip can start from. It didn t build up it more or less pooled. That old of a home would have oil based paint and a varnish on the walls.