Oily Substance On Bathroom Walls

May be evident as tan brown or clear spots or areas and can sometimes be glossy soapy oily or sticky.

Oily substance on bathroom walls.

Then pooled on top of the toilet paper holder. Over the last month or so we have had random spots of sticky yellow sap on our walls in weird spots. I have never painted these walls in the past 8 years we have been here so i have no idea what it has been painted with. This is an interesting thread.

Then i noticed it on top of the radiator. The ceiling seemed unaffected. I have an interior bedroom wall that somehow produces a brown sticky substance that runs down the wall. Behind 2 of them are bathrooms and the 3rd backs on to a hallway near the kitchen.

If you live in an older house that had a lot of different residents move in and out over the years there s no doubt that the place has a lot of character but one mystery that has been stumping me for some time now are these gross brown spots and streaks on my bathroom walls. On the surface of a latex paint. Having just cut a hole through the dry wall i can confirm that there are no leaks from the. I wouldn t notice this on the semi gloss lavender paint but it pools on the white wainscotting below.

The wall is an interior wall constructed of wooden studs and 1 2 inch drywall. The odd thing which i cannot figure out is that a faint yellowish substance appears from nowhere and runs down the wall. Red stains on an interior wall possibly wallpaper that may be a red mold. 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.

Red stains on walls or ceilings may be due to mineral salts and effloresence if the wall is masonry particularly brick masonry or the red stains may be a species of mold or even a red yeast such as rhodotorula often found indoors in wet moldy conditions. It didn t build up it more or less pooled. Yes you are right it is plaster out of the 4 walls 3 of them have these oily yellow tear drops. 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 bathroom is up against the wall to the outside of the house. Concentration of water soluble paint ingredients called surfactants. We just noticed yesterday this scenario on our hallway walls outside the bathroom. It is not happening in the bathroom and the hallway was painted approximately 2 years ago.

Only thing we have done is put a metal roof on the house approximately one year ago. Several weeks ago the walls in the bathroom began to bleed a mysterious sticky substance some sort of oil. It looks like water has condensed on the wall but despite repeated cleaning the substance still appears brown and sticky.