I put damp seal paint on a wall I shouldn't have - any advice?

[Liveinthewoods80]

Hi all,
I know, I'm a dimwit - I thought I had damp patches on my bathroom wall, which appeared equally spaced out - and all the same size - every time the bathroom got steamed up. When they dried you couldn't see any damp patches.

I had thought they really were damp patches and slathered a load of Ronseal damp paint over them. I realise now that maybe I painted over air bricks, as I have no windows in my small apartment bathroom, and I'm starting to get rust on my fittings even though my bathroom fan is decent. Built in 2005, so modern building, not a conversion.

So I'm wondering now if it is possible to strip off Ronseal damp paint - can I do it myself easily or do I need to get a tradesperson in for the job?

Thanks in advance!

Equally sized damp patches behind plaster walls? Those will be the 'dabs' - the glue they use to stick the plasterboard to the wall. Not air bricks.

I doubt the damp paint has done any harm and is unlikely to be causing the rusty fittings. More likely you need to increase your ventilation, or get better quality fittings.

Thanks Sunnyday - I have been thinking about upgrading my bathroom fan to a more powerful one as I have no windows in the bathroom because of the way the flat is built - my bathroom does not face an exterior wall. The "damp" patches were about the size of a medium sized easter egg, about four or five of them in a row along the upper end of the plasterboard wall.

I would like better quality fittings but the mirror has started to collect a bit of a "rusty" appearance at the bottom edge and I am not sure if you can get better quality mirrors?

But thanks for your response!

Definitely sounds like dabs then.
Yes upgrade your fan if possible, although it's possible that a long run of ducting is causing the fan to be inefficient (if the bathroom is internal.)

Thanks Sunny, a handyman who came round to fix my bathroom tiles (that's another story) said it was quite a powerful fan - he did that test where you hold a piece of toilet paper up to it.