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Real Wood Magnetic Garage Door Overlays

This Reg CF offering is made available through StartEngine Capital, LLC. This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment.

$143,499.78 Raised

REASONS TO INVEST

ABOUT

HEADQUARTERS
2191 Meadow Place SE
Albany, OR 97322

TEAM

Rick Medlen
Rick Medlen
Founder/CEO

Growing up in Colorado with small town roots, Rick has successfully been part of several small companies that he's helped grow into national presences. With his recent experience with CU Direct Corporation he led the way in introducing their product to the entire state of Oregon. This introduction and following growth led to topline sales of over $380M in 2012. | Rick has found his passion by working with Habitat for Humanity. Whether on a job site in Oregon or SE Asia, testifying in front of the state legislature, or in his current role as incoming President of the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity Oregon, Rick works tirelessly to give the underserved portion of our society a helping hand up in securing not only their future, but the future of generations to come. | Rick is uniquely poised to lead GarageSkins, Inc. through the launch phase and into a national presence. He's surrounded himself with a great team, experienced advisors, and partners that ensure that GarageSkins, Inc. will thrive in the marketplace. | Feb 2013 - Dec 2014: President/Managing Member GarageSkins LLC | Dec 2014 - Present CEO Sol Director GarageSkins, Inc. | As GarageSkins, Inc. is pre-revenue, all our capital has been directed towards research and development, hence Rick supplemented his family's income during this time with the following positions: Nov 2014 - Nov 2015 - FedEx driver part time | Nov 2015 - May 2017 - Lowe's Home Improvement Distribution Center |

Undisclosed Under NDA

Undisclosed Under NDA

CFO-designate

Our future CFO, pending certain initial GarageSkins benchmarks, is currently serving as Corporate Controller for a $750M company. In this 8-year role he has oversight and responsibility for 22 retail locations and 11,000 SKU's. While he can make numbers dance, he's much happier casting a line into the Deschutes River hoping for a great rainbow trout. In a previous role he was responsible for discovering internal fraud which led to a 3-year prison sentence for a Vice President. He is committed to joining GarageSkins, Inc. as full-time CFO once our size and activity warrant it, but until that time he will act as contract CFO and ensure your investment is used wisely to grow GarageSkins, Inc.

Undisclosed Under NDA

Undisclosed Under NDA

Vice President Marketing

Our future Vice President of Marketing, pending certain initial GarageSkins benchmarks, has 24 years experience under her belt, the last 10 being in her current role as National Sales Director for a home improvement company. She leads a team of 480 professional sales people who actively solicit and close business for her $100M company. Her "never quit, never surrender" attitude will ensure that our GarageSkins overlay systems will become a household word, and her deep, C-level connections in the big-box retail world will make our transition into national retail partnerships smooth and seamless. Once our start-up funding is secured she is committed to joining our initial Senior Management team and is excited to be an integral part of shaping GarageSkins, Inc.'s future.

Gary Kretz

Gary Kretz

Director of Manufacturing

Our future Director of Manufacturing, Gary Kretz, comes with a wealth of industry experience, including running huge jobsite crews, responsibility for financial and timeline execution on large commercial construction jobs, supply chain management, and delivering jobs on time and on budget. His unique skills will be greatly utilized to lead our production team both during our start-up phase and into the future. His biggest claim to fame, however, is successfully raising 7 boys into adulthood and has enjoyed guiding all of them into mature, hardworking strong adults. It's his people leadership skills that will greatly enhance the GarageSkins products and ensure that they will be manufactured to the highest level of quality. He is committed to leading our manufacturing once we have secured our start-up funding.

TERMS

GarageSkins
Overview
PRICE PER SHARE
$0.38
DEADLINE
Jan 3, 2019
VALUATION
$3.04M
FUNDING GOAL
$10k - $435k
Breakdown
MIN INVESTMENT
$323
MAX INVESTMENT
$107,000
MIN NUMBER OF SHARES OFFERED
26,315
MAX NUMBER OF SHARES OFFERED
1,144,736
OFFERING TYPE
Equity
SHARES OFFERED
Non-Voting Common Stock

Maximum Number of Shares Offered subject to adjustment for bonus shares

Most Recent Fiscal Year-End

Prior Fiscal Year-End

Total Assets

$56,042

$667

Cash & Cash Equivalents

$56,042

$667

Accounts Receivable

$0

$0

Short-Term Debt

$16,795

$9,778

Long-Term Debt

$169,579

$45,422

Revenue & Sales

$0

$0

Costs of Goods Sold

$0

$0

Taxes Paid

$0

$0

Net Income

-$75,799

-$8,319

Irregular Use of Proceeds

The Company does not expect to incur any irregular use of proceeds.

PRESS

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GIVE YOUR BORING GARAGE DOOR A MAKEOVER WITH THESE CLEVER WOODEN OVERLAYS

Millions of people own nice, modern homes. But no matter how big or small they are, and no matter how simple or elaborate their architecture may be, the vast majority of these homes have the same basic stamped-metal garage doors on them.

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Garage Skins Can Change Your Garage Doors Forever

Rick Medlen talks with the Carey Brothers about how Garage Skins are indistinguishable from a solid-wood $10,000 garage door.

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The Pitch: Giving your garage a facelift with magnets

There are a lot of ways to spruce up the appearance of a house. Updating a tired garage door with a designer one is one sure way to boost curb appeal — and put a dent in the home improvement budget.

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GarageSkins Give You a Wood Look without the Cost

Street facing metal garage doors are a tough design problem to overcome. But Rick Medlen of Creswell, OR who invented GarageSkins has the answer. This product will allow any homeowner with a standard metal overhead garage door to add the look of a real wood carriage house door in under an hour and for less than $1000.00

ALL UPDATES

01.02.19

LAST 18 HOURS!

We at GarageSkins, Inc. want to thank everyone who has chosen to come along on this crazy journey.  Thanks to your investment and trust we are much closer to being able to commercially launch our amazing new concept into the retail home improvement marketplace.  Look for updates to come your way and of course we'll post our year-end financials once available.

If you have been watching this campaign but haven't yet invested, please don't miss out. Soon you'll see a GarageSkins system installed in your neighborhood and I don't want you to be that person that says "I wish I had..."

Happy New Year to everyone and I wish you all a great return on investment!

-Rick Medlen, CEO

GarageSkins, Inc.

12.26.18

LAST 7 DAYS!

Just 7 more days to invest in GarageSkins, Inc.!   We have chosen to end our equity crowd-funding phase and want thank everyone for their trust and commitment.  With our prototype phase completed and several GarageSkins systems soon in place throughout the US, we will be targeting high-net-worth investors and investment groups for the remainder of our start-up funding phase.  We'll post several updates as this progresses along with photos of the homes once the systems are in place.

Please consider taking advantage of these last 7 days to jump on board.  If everyone following this campaign invested just $1,000 we'd easily reach our launch target of $750,000 and begin building out production.

While we are not eliminating the possibility of re-launching another equity crowdfunding campaign in 2019, know that our goals for this campaign have been reached.  We have validated the concept by having over 350 people invest their hard-earned money into this venture.  And with over 1,300,000 social media responses and over 65,000 views of this campaign, it's now very clear that the home improvement marketplace has a real need for this product.

Once again I thank you for the trust and commitment to help move this venture forward.  I look forward to a great 2019!!

-Rick Medlen, CEO, GarageSkins, Inc.

12.20.18

Notice of Funds Disbursement

[The following is an automated notice from the StartEngine team].

Hello!

As you might know, GarageSkins has exceeded its minimum funding goal. When a company reaches its minimum on StartEngine, it's about to begin withdrawing funds. If you invested in GarageSkins be on the lookout for an email that describes more about the disbursement process.


This campaign will continue to accept investments until its indicated closing date.


Thanks for funding the future.

-StartEngine

12.18.18

FIRST ROUND OF TESTING COMPLETE!

As promised, I'm attaching our first round of testing results.  We are excited that the results proved very positive and only showed a couple of failure points that have been addressed and will be included in the next round of testing.

Here's a brief overview but please read the report in-depth.

  • A custom plan was used to try to realistically simulate the most taxing environmental climate in the US (South Florida)
  • A 24 hour cycle of humidity, temperature and UV exposure was cycled for 30 days with intermittent direct water spray simulating rainfall
  • Photos were taken weekly
  • Both light and dark stains were used to test color-fastness
  • The veneer used was 1.5mm radiata pine
  • Steel plates were used for mounting to simulate the steel garage door
  • See the full report here


Our results were great!  As the report details some of the panels were exposed to almost twice as much UV radiation as they would be on the worst day in south Florida and hence there was some significant discoloration of those panels.  A couple of the panels had the magnets oxidize and bleed into the veneer but epoxy coating on the magnets will cure that.

Our next test will place a much more realistic filter on the 4000-watt UV lights to accurately simulate the worst real world conditions.  We'll also switch to 0.5mm alder veneer as this will be our choice when we go into mass production for many reasons.  This test is scheduled to begin Jan 15th, 2019.

All in all, other than the massive UV exposure charring the wood panels (something that doesn't happen in the real world) our panels held up very well.  There was absolutely no delamination or any sign that the panel construction needed to be altered in any way.  We are confident that with the real-world UV exposure and the coated magnets, we will test out to be production-ready.[

Thanks for your investment $$ that can make all of this possible and stay tuned for more!!

11.19.18

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE!

As we enter this Thanksgiving season, we take a second to pause and look back at this year's accomplishments.  We've successfully:


  • Developed a quick-cure finish that will outlast the elements and provide great protection from the sun's UV rays
  • Partnered with a European wood processor to provide an almost unlimited supply of our specially-treated veneer
  • Secured commitment from a magnet manufacturer to provide any conceivable quantity we order
  • Successfully raised an additional $133,000 here on StartEngine
  • Begun conversations with high-net-worth investors to fully fund our production once certain milestones are met
  • Begun our first structured environmental stress test
  • Grown our waiting list from 2100 to 3600 through successful social media outreach
  • Identified a facility to house operations for our initial product build-out and launch
  • And most importantly, we had fun doing all of this!


I sincerely hope that everyone who is following our campaign and those who have invested have a wonderful, peace-filled time with friends and family this coming Thanksgiving and Christmas season.  While we all strive for success, it's the love and comfort of those around us that makes those efforts worthwhile.


HAPPY THANKSGIVING!    -Rick Medlen, CEO, GarageSkins, Inc.

11.11.18

Environmental Testing Begins

We are excited to begin our environmental stress testing at Oregon State University's Wood Innovations Lab.  The GarageSkins panels have been mounted to steel plates to simulate a garage door, placed in a sealed temperature/humidity controlled chamber, and for the next 30 days will be blasted with UV while the temperature and humidity are fluctuated to simulate 1 year of south Florida climate.  

With 1 week of testing under our belts the panels are holding up nicely.. we'll post the entire report here once it's complete.

Thanks to everyone for the trust, we are looking forward to validating our years of engineering work with this test.  More to come!

-Rick

08.27.18

Notice of Material Change in Offering

[The following is an automated notice from the StartEngine team].

Hello! Recently, a change was made to the GarageSkins offering. Here's an excerpt describing the specifics of the change:


GarageSkins is extending their campaign.


When live offerings undergo changes like these on StartEngine, the SEC requires that certain investments be reconfirmed. If your investment requires reconfirmation, you will be contacted by StartEngine via email with further instructions.

07.31.18

Final Finish Engineering

Great news.. and the final piece of our puzzle is solved.  

One of the largest challenges of creating an exterior wood product is engineering it to last many years without warping, fading or cracking.  And since our GarageSkins systems will eventually be sold all over the world, we have to make it stable in Alaska's winters and Arizona's summers.  This has created quite the challenge.. 

Our treated wood has eliminated problems from humidity fluctuations, but the UV from the sun is prone to fade wood quickly and create cracks throughout.  So our requirements for a final finish have been quite extensive and up until now elusive to everyone we've reached out to for an engineered product.  We need our finish to be:

Very lightweight - ease of installation

Very hard - outlasting basketballs and hail 

Clear - the beauty of the wood should shine through

Luster finish - we targeted a hand-waxed furniture look

UV blocking - eliminating harmful UV rays in any climate

Quick-Curing  - we need to quickly cure this finish to keep up with demand

As you can see, this has been quite a task.  But I'm happy to report that we have partnered with a chemical company that manufactures exterior finishes for the aerospace industry.  After months of experimenting with different formulations, they have crafted just the right finish to keep your GarageSkins systems both protected and looking beautiful.  And even better it can be applied and cured in a production line environment!

All great stuff, we'll post the test results once complete but so far after 2 months in the 100 degree heat and humidity fluctuations from 30-70%, absolutely nothing to report.  Meaning we are confident that this finish will test out perfectly and provide the final piece of the puzzle!

If you have invested, thank you, and if you haven't but are "following" this campaign, remember that if every one of the 572 followers we have invested just $1,000, we'd push over the top and begin manufacturing efforts.

As always, post comments and I'll get them answered quickly.


-Rick Medlen, CEO

GarageSkins, Inc.

07.03.18

Notice of Material Change in Offering

[The following is an automated notice from the StartEngine team].

Hello! Recently, a change was made to the GarageSkins offering. Here's an excerpt describing the specifics of the change:


Garage Skins, Inc is extending their offering for 60 days.


When live offerings undergo changes like these on StartEngine, the SEC requires that certain investments be reconfirmed. If your investment requires reconfirmation, you will be contacted by StartEngine via email with further instructions.

06.22.18

Great Validation for HOA Acceptance!!!

Hi all!  Wanted to share an email we received from a future GarageSkins customer:


"Hi friends! Just wondering when your product will be available!? We are remodeling our 90’s red brick, white metal garage door home and would LOVE to put this on our home! I presented this to our HOA and got approved, they don’t believe me that it’s an overlay! Please let me know, there’s other companies out there but yours is my favorite!! Thank you" 😊  - Laurel D. (shared with permission)


We've had several social media comments that an HOA would never allow this to be in their neighborhoods, but our experience so far has been that most are very accepting of anything that would upgrade the appearance of the exterior of their neighborhoods without detracting from the value of other homes.


Thanks!! -Rick

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Youssef Barbour

33 INVESTMENTS

a year ago

Hello, it has been a while since we heard from you about any updates! Hope all is good with you. Keep us updated please!

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Fred Katzman

2 years ago

Are you still accepting investments ? fredkatzman@aol.com

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Rick Medlen

3 years ago

Douglass and Suzanne, yes! After the progress was brought to a dead standstill by the pandemic, we've been fortunate enough to raise $1.2M in just the past month, and are leasing 60,000 sq ft of production space in Post Falls, ID with product anticipated for retail sales July 2021. Can't wait! Douglass (and other investors) we'll get a more detailed update out in the next couple of weeks. I appreciate the continued interest, our waiting list has grown to over 11,000! -Rick

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douglass Brown

3 years ago

There seemed to be so much forward momentum here, what happend? What is the staus of bringing this to project to market?

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Suzanne Wester

3 years ago

Do you still plan on bringing this product to the market? I see there has not been activity on here for a couple of years.

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Patrick Murphy

1 INVESTMENTS

4 years ago

I’m in ! Let’s dominate the market . I see a lot of growth with the economical logo garage skins . Also amazon has only rinkydink magnetic black Widows for garage doors and hardware that’s it . I spent way too much money on Amazon I suggest we look into selling garage skins thru them also . The future is bright looking forward to it .

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Kent DeHart

4 years ago

Really like this product but, this statement under the "Terms" is a concern for me as a potential investor. "There is not now and likely will not be a public market for our stock."

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Orlando Alegria

1 INVESTMENTS

5 years ago

can these panels be installed on wood doors as well? or just metal

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Tracy Spencer

5 years ago

Does this product have any kind of theft deterrent? Can it be easily be pulled off or vandalized?

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Roy Pirhala

5 years ago

So if you don't reach the desired $750,000 - a large target, then what as far as those of us who have invested? You should have mentioned that amount in your initial presentation here when this all started. Wishing you good luck though as an investor myself.

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