Yellow Liquid On Bathroom Walls

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Yellow liquid on bathroom walls.

Cigarette smoke and gas heat can leave residues on walls that when wet can run down walls in condensation and look yellowish brown. Since everything in the house is 30 years old i m sure the paint in the bathroom is no different. High humidity moisture problem and lack of fresh air or sunlight are factors that cause yellow mold to grow on walls. Then i noticed it on top of the radiator.

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 means that your walls are painted with an oil based paint and its the oil coming from the paint u need to redo the walls with a non oil base paint and a mildew resistant paint made especially for bathrooms that is why u get the yellowish brown spots its the oil in the paint coming thru. The condensation causes all the foreign material that is on the wall to coalesce into the water droplets. It didn t build up it more or less pooled.

If you ve discovered yellow mold growing in your home you re probably wondering what it is why it s there and what to do about it. Then pooled on top of the toilet paper holder. Magic eraser cleans it in a. Steam shampoo hairspray cigarette smoke all combine to create this yellow drip.

I don t believe the prior owners smoked but you never know. For the sake of my sanity in shared shower situations i ve chosen to go with explanation 1. Yellow mold on walls may grow into larger fungi colony so you need to remove it when the problem is still small. 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 second explanation is that the yellow stuff is you eww or more specifically the oils from your skin lifted off by with hot water and redeposited onto the walls after the humidity in the room dies down.