Odd one - smell of wallpaper paste except..

[dormermike]

We stripped the walls years ago and they are now painted! On humid days I've noticed that the hall and two rooms smell of wall paper paste, like when a room is being decorated. These rooms had wallpaper on them when we moved into the house but have been painted for at last 5 years.

Is this normal? The walls a dry to touch and I've only just made the correlation between weather and the smell. The smell only comes a few times a year. I live in Wales

Thanks
Mike

 

[scruffybiker]

Believe it or not, we experience the same thing. We live in an old cottage, which in areas has hygroscopic salts leaching through the plaster. On warm humid days we get the same smell along with 2 patches of "Salt Damp". The smell could he wallpaper paste residue re hydrating I suppose. In my case I need to just hack a few patches of plaster off and re do. Its a strange one!

 

[dormermike]

Salts in the plaster would make sense. I can't find any evidence of damp patches though. It's just a general whiff of wallpaper paste.

Odd one.