Should I paint garage door to impress fiancés family?

[Akeevah]

Fiancés family are visiting my parents home tomorrow. Just came back to help parents tidy their house for the gathering. The inside is fine but the outside is pretty shoddy.

The garage door is peeling. Is it humanly possible to do a very quick paint job?

Just spot paint. I have all evening. And morning tomorrow

Seems a little bit over the top to paint a garage door on order to impress in laws. Can't you just say they're waiting for good weather to paint it and there just hasn't been?

I am just very anally retentive. I annoy myself.

But as a non diy-er could this be done in an hour let’s say?

Obviously I can’t sand or anything but just to fill in gaps?

It’s a garage door - if anyone was so judgemental over something like that I’m not sure I’d be particularly welcoming 😆
But if your parents want it done then take some time to sand it back and do it properly.

It’s probably important to ask your parents how they feel about it

Why would anyone be impressed by your garage door?

I think it’s rude to your parents to make a big deal out of a bit of peeling paint on a garage door, and sets up awkwardness before the inlaws-to-be have even arrived.

No! Do not set an unrealistic precedent. This is how your parents live, do you really want to be in a position where you feel like you have to glaze over reality to show an appearance of something different.

I don’t know if this feels expected because your knowledge of them so far has made you think they would be judging about it or if you have just got it into your head things have to be perfect and your catastrophying things.

if your parents want it done anyway it would be nice to help them out if their circumstances mean they can’t do it themselves although that’s nothing to do with pil visit

as long as the house is clean and tidy, and basic respect is shown towards the as visitors ie not being rude etc then surely that should be enough?

if it’s not then why not?

Why?
Do you put your in laws and fiance on a pedestal?
Have you not got the desire and confidence to have you accepted as you are?

Regardless of the "doing things to impress", I think spot painting would make it look worse. The new paint spots would be obvious.

That needs doing properly with the flaking paint wire brushed off , primed and painted - don’t attempt to do a half baked job or it will look worse

You can't just put new paint on top of weathered paint. It will look just as bad as peeling paint, if not worse.

Honestly, just let it go. It's a bit of peeling paint, it's not like the house is hoarded.

I would ensure the gutters are clear and lift any drain covers and give the inspection pits a good clean just in case they look in there.

I always do that, and that's only when the vicar is popping round for a cup of tea, so for potential inlaws it's a must.

I'm laughing at the thought of the prospective in laws turning up, carrying out a garage door inspection then rating the impressiveness 😂

Who does that?

The point of the paint is to protect the wood. This is nowhere near bad enough to need a new coat. Hive it a couple of years to actually start flaking. At that point, get it sanded (not to take off all the colour, just so it's smooth) and get cracking.

Why are you trying so hard to impress his family?

I'm assuming there's a bit of background here ?

I would hope that your future relationship with your prospective in-laws isn't based upon flaking paint on a garage door .

My in-laws would judge my parents (and me) for this but they're arseholes....

Ha ha no.

If the paint is peeling you need to strip it back down and remove it all before painting. That is not a quick job.

Don't. It will look awful. You need to scrape off the old paint or sand it down properly before painting.
Just leave it - they are there to see you, not your garage!

I think most people would read more into someone specifically painting a garage door for them coming round, than having a garage door which could do with a repaint. Just leave it. If I found out someone quickly painted their garage door purely because I was coming round, I would think they're weird.