Shoutout to Carlos at Express Granite in OKC for letting us film this whole process... I'll leave a link to his new website once it's live (just finishing updating photos and what-not's) Thanks for watching!!

MAD props to Carlos. It's not everyday you find a business willing to work with a creator on the level he did.

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

No doubt!!! Super fortunate!

@LoveTeeC3

4 ай бұрын

Indeed. Props, Carlos!

Carlos and the team seem so cool, friendly & humble. 100% guaranteed you would not have gotten an amazing service experience with any of the other 2 options. Support your local businesses as much as y’all can.

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

I agree, super happy with picking the guys at express granite!

WOW I don't really know countertop pricing but $2700 installed seems like a great price for what you got and how fast you got it!

@BowTye-2

5 ай бұрын

That’s what I thought too! I was hoping someone in the comments would say something about the price. Thanks!👍

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

Agreed!! I don't know if $52 a square foot (installed) is a great price in other places but it seemed to be the OKC standard.

@samdmitruk

3 ай бұрын

it’s like $90 a square here for what he’s looking at

@sourpuss310

Ай бұрын

Right! Much better than I assumed

Shoutout Carlos! Those counters are CLEAN 🔥

Wow thats one hell of a transformation for the kitchen! Seems you found a really great company, they did an awesome job

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

Big time!! Thanks a ton

Love to see that you're supporting your local businesses and even helping Carlos out with building that site for him! Hopefully we'll be seeing him again with future projects!! As for the back of the cabinets under the overhang, my father-in-law redid his kitchen and had an island with an overhang and made a board and batten pattern by just throwing a sheet of plywood down and making the battens with some 1x3's. You can make up your own spacing and once you paint over it, it looks amazing!

Now that is an awesome countertop Mike! Carlos & his team did a great job with the install!

This square space ad was good, super hands on #squarespace 😊

A huge high five to Carlos n his crew. That customer service goes a long way with me. I wish this video would've come out a couple of months earlier. I just got counter tops as well, n man, what a process. Great job once again

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

haha!! I figured I couldn't be the only one that had no idea what to expect getting custom counters 😂

Mike, that was a beautiful gesture👏🏽👏🏽 Carlos, many blessings to your website🙌🏽🙌🏽💐❣️

2700 for installed counter tops seems crazy inexpensive. When they said 52 originally I thought they meant 5200, not 52/sqft

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

I'm super happy!!! Curious what people pay per square foot in other regions!

@njg4644

5 ай бұрын

10 years ago I would pay around $55/sq' and now I pay around $75 /sq' installed in Colorado so thats a great price​@ModernBuilds

Your mom it’s pretty with respect. And thanks for the advice 👍

This is one of the best videos. What a great guy Carlos is and what you did for him is awesome!

Something the countertop guys teached me: don't judge the large sheets of material because the typical kitchen top uses much smaller pieces, and the patterns change significance in the smaller size. Carry a cardboard frame that's the width of your counters, and put it up against the large sheet to get a proportionate view. Large patterns suddenly disappear in a smaller view. Smaller patterns become just the right size, etc.

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

Great tip!!!

Super cool, I did this recently too and it's nice to see another person's experience. My guys came out and measured very quickly, which made me a little nervous because I had crooked walls. Turns out crooked walls must be a standard thing though (duh), because they actually had to trim the countertops on-site, which looked super intense and something I definitely wasn't expecting. Everything worked out great though, and this is probably all standard stuff to these guys.

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

NIce!!! I was impressed with how quick these guys are too! they said that do 4 or 5 installs a day and that's really fast!

Wow, seeing that CNC for those slabs was awesome, very interesting stuff Mike!

First of all: OMG!!! Your mom is soooo pretty, cool and young

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

Couldn't have scripted a better brand integration but honestly it doesn't compare to Carlos going out of his way to let me film and hooking me up with the window sill!!

Wow you are absolutely loving and amazing. Always helping everyone 😊😊

Super cool ! Great work by Carlos and team.

That was amazing to watch! ❤

Thank you, Carlos!

Great choice Mike!

The fact you know Wayne Newton.😁

Mike, that was a stand up thing you did for Carlos!! Blessings for 2024 my friend, Dirty Jersey out!!!

Very educational. Thank you Carlos for letting us see the automatic tile cutting. I HOPE YOUR BUSINESS DOES WELL!

How many other people watching actually waved at the TV when Mike said say hey to my mom? 😂 Seriously, it’s always cool when we get to see videos with his parents in them. Very cool ☺️.

Great outcome

Love this guy well done

Price breakdowns are awesome!!!! More please. It might be a cool series / playlist to do a price breakdown for all the common remodel items. Kitchen counter, kitchen back splash, kitchen cabinet, bathroom vanity, bathroom shower, bathroom tile surround, new trim, etc.

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

That could be really neat!!! I'm planning on doing one for this income property renovation once it's complete!

Looking good!!!

Always let your mother through first through the door. Props.

Would love to see the price break down of the material + labor! We want to get rid of our old laminate countertops as well

Two excellent people getting business done! Looking very nice Mike. Nice company Carlos!

beautiful

Looks nice !

Wow good stuff all of it

dude your work is amazing keep it up. Always excited to see a new video pop up on my sub feed

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

I appreciate it dude!!

And he is a Star Wars fan.... Best desision ever!! 😂

Love that you made him a website!

super cool

Good job

Mike’s mom is such a sweet lady. Good job, Mike’s dad.

Carlos looks great.

Awesome video!

I just found your channel.... great content!!

Have you seen Click Tile? Pretty much glue a Lego sheet to the wall then click the tile into place. Real easy if you need to change it.

I need a Carlos where I am.

We went with IKEA for a great price on a really thick piece of quartz. None of that half inch with an overhang. The only thing is you have to check out who their installer is and make sure that they are well rated.

Are there any chances of getting cracks over quartz stone over a period of time. Which is best for a long-term use. Quartz or Granite.

Also: Carlos, please come to the mid-Atlantic. We need you! 😂

Take a drink every time he says “Too Busy” 😂

@modernbuilds What sink did you pick/install?

You are your mother's twin!!

We work with the saber but never seen the water jet cut a bull nose profile only use it for miters and curves and corners

@richarddiaz7702

5 ай бұрын

Also we use 100% silicone to glue down the counter top down

Please paint the cabinets PLEASE!!!!

Your Mom looks like she could be your sister or your wife. She looks so young!

Ya

Countertops look great. What's the deal with the extra overhang on the stove opening? 13:41

@keithwright2726

5 ай бұрын

The oven/stove has to align with the microwave. You want your countertops on both sides to touch the oven/stove. He has to add a wood matching filler piece.

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

went from a 36 to a 30 inch stove so I'll make a little cabinet filler piece 🤙🏼

That 'engineered' stone has just been banned in Australia. Silicosis is very serious.

@californiacritic9779

5 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

What's that??

@xDavEx

4 ай бұрын

Only dangerous to those who cut and work with it. They should use a breathing mask because it little particles that come off from the quartz. Not hazardous in a home, only at the mill.

@timandrew4515

3 ай бұрын

@xDavEx correct. Dangerous to work with.

@timandrew4515

3 ай бұрын

@ModernBuilds Silicosis is a potentially deadly lung disease associated with breathing in silica fibres. This can occur when cutting, polishing or grinding artificial stone, which is a popular stone used for kitchen benchtops.

Where is the plywood where the quartz is supposed to be lying on top of? The quartz can crack without the plywood underneath it.

👌🏽😏

Saludos a mi suegra!!

Your mom is cute.... ❤😂

👏👏👏👏افرین

So cool that you built him a website

I installed that tragic one. Why it tragic?

Great video - but you don't need to shout all the time - LOL! Kx

I want marble

Im shocked he didnt use plywood

@Modern Builds, you should cover the cabinets with painted shiplap and trim.

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Mom sounds like the whisper lady from Seinfeld.

@garyvu1890

5 ай бұрын

She looks like Angela from the Office

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

I think I'm just always yelling 😂

This turned out really good. I love the quartz, and it’s super cool that you could surprise him with his website. So awesome! On another note, it’s radii (pronounced like ray-dee-eye), not “radiuses”.

First of all, your mom is one beautiful looking lady. Second, Carlos is a rockstar. Thirdly, you made a perfect choice for countertops because it looks beautiful.

@ModernBuilds

5 ай бұрын

Thanks on all three, I agree haha!

I came to the comments to see how many people hit on your mom! Lol

@webberfan1234

5 ай бұрын

She’s hot. It’d buy her a drink at the bar and I’m her son’s age.

Countertops does not go with the cabinets.

$2700?? I have less countertop that him but everywhere I go quotes me $3800 - $4200 for anything that is white.

why are you yelling?

Sound on your videos is subpar. It takes away a lot from your production, which would be 10/10 with a couple of good microphones.

Is he called "big bob" cause he's tall or fat? These are the questions that keep me up at night

No disrespect but Mikes mom is a smoke show

13,000 views with 1.76M subscribers? 😂 you bought your subscribers and it’s so obvious 😂😂😂

Quartz is real brittle, compared to granite. Also it has larger pours in the stone it self. Which will cause it to stain easy. When I do my designs. If I use quartz it always goes in the bathrooms. Definitely not the kitchen. But to each their own.

@webberfan1234

5 ай бұрын

What about marble

@HulaShack1

3 ай бұрын

@@webberfan1234 Marble is worse.

why do you need to fucking yell?????????????????????????????????????????????