Oily Substance On Bathroom Walls

The bathroom is up against the wall to the outside of the house.

Oily substance on bathroom walls.

A few years ago we used kilz primer and painted two of the walls in the bathroom. The drips are always on paint. Then i noticed it on top of the radiator. Is it something that is leaching out of the paint.

What is happening in your bathroom is a common paint problem called surfactant leaching the following is from the paint quality institute. Over the past few years i have found a number of oily yellowish drips in all areas of our home. All 4 walls in the bathroom were bleeding from top to bottom. You need to strip the wall paper strip the walls and start over from bare walls.

It didn t build up it more or less pooled. It looks like water has condensed on the wall but despite repeated cleaning the substance still appears brown and sticky. They appear on external and internal walls. Several weeks ago the walls in the bathroom began to bleed a mysterious sticky substance some sort of oil.

I have noticed in the bathroom after recently painting steam seems to leave an oily golden yellow residue dripping down the walls. The ceiling seemed unaffected. That old of a home would have oil based paint and a varnish on the walls. I have an interior bedroom wall that somehow produces a brown sticky substance that runs down the wall.

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. Having just cut a hole through the dry wall i can confirm that there are no leaks from the. 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 wall is an interior wall constructed of wooden studs and 1 2 inch drywall.

I have tried leaving the window open when showering and even leaving the bathroom door and then both bathroom and bedroom doors open. The condensation causes all the foreign material that is on the wall to coalesce into the water droplets. Then pooled on top of the toilet paper holder. It would be alot of work to remove it.

What can i do to stop this. 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. 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. We have the wallpaper looking wallboard stuff.