So I'm starting to put stuff on the walls in my new place today and I noticed something pretty strange. Since I'm renting I generally prefer not to put holes in the walls. That requires the use of
Command Hooks and strips. I've been using these things for several years since Aimee introduced them to me and they're generally pretty awesome. Slightly expensive, but they've always held as well as screws in walls for me provided you don't overload them.
So, here's the problem. I put one up last night and the thing came off this morning and the sticky part seems like it had just lost it's sticky. I figured I messed up and didn't clean the wall, so I did. When I did that paint on the wall sorta became this chalky paste, so I quickly stopped and went to do a bigger test in a hidden spot. Again, when cleaner, alcohol, or water is on the wall it becomes this pasty mix, sorta like wet plaster.
Does that mean my new walls are just plaster? There's a noticible difference between the walls in the wet room (kitchen & bathroom) and the rest of the apartment. I've never delt with that before, but I guess it makes sense. Anyone else have experience with such walls? They sorta look and feel like just a dull porous paint and have that "rough" texture that's pretty popular in apartments around here (not super flat, several planes with random edges barely sticking out to break things up a little).