 and we're live and we're here we're doing this we're floodcoating our pink marbally JD Carrera countertops in MS Pink Palace home MS pink palace so if you've been following along we are in LA doing these countertops and we are currently floodcoating and I wanted to go live so you can see a little bit of that process if you've never done countertops or you're planning to do countertops or anything countertoppy maybe this will help what's up you guys what's up what's up what's up you're watching while laying on the beach in Galveston I'm glad Galveston didn't get deltad because that was not a fun time so right now Jeffrey is popping bubbles with the heat gun he's not using too much heat he's merely popping the bubbles if you use too much heat then you'll liquefy your resin and it will more likely than not do this we are Karen we are currently in we ho did Karen says let's do a class I that's the resin I have left I have one gallon of countertop and half a gallon of our coat oh my goodness he's living dangerously the big holes on the bottom mmm be oh my goodness you're gonna we're gonna be live and die how are you keeping the dust out yeah that's we're gonna hope that works I will Susan I'll answer that question in two seconds are y'all going to use stone coat top coat on top of the flood coat what's up Clara so for the art layer we did use stone coat art coat sorry that's a gross bottle we use stone coat art coat and we use that because it is awesome in terms of a working time and when you're doing complex designs you really need to have a resin that gives you the amount of time that you need to create whatever it is that you want to create and then right now what's on there is stone coat countertop epoxy as opposed to the art coat and we use that as our flood coat because it cures more quickly it cures a little bit harder for like durability sake and everything else about it is basically the same as the art coat in terms of heat resistance and UV I mean the art coat has a little bit better UV but the durability and the rigidity to which it cures is better with the countertop of this much resin left for this amount of countertops do you need me to bring this over there I'm gonna bring it over there I want you to dip dip yeah typically if you want to keep dust out of something like this if you have like a closed-off kitchen we would recommend like where that tape is putting a tarp and then draping it out and over something like a tripod so it has like a lean to type protection however since her place is kind of lofty in that there's no real walls closing this in we're having to just turn everything off there's no AC on there's no ceiling fans we're just gonna do this and disappear and let it pre cure if we hadn't have done this half bar we could have just taped this frame off and then taped over that doorway and just secluded this in there but because we have resin this part as well we can't do that but that's what we would do if we were just doing the countertop part but since we did the bar top as well that's what we had to do I don't think I could have a pink palace exactly but that countertop and pink marble is gorgeous thank you did you bring the sample board so she can put it on her wall as an art piece I did not but maybe I'll start doing that in the future well this piece is almost done Karen and I don't know how far the valley is but aside from the flood coat this piece will be done assuming it cures perfectly if it does will be done if not that's what we have a little bit extra resin for I mean the new top coat that's don't come make scratch proofs than delphins no this will be a high gloss countertop you're talking about the platinum and the matte top coat finish we won't we won't be doing that for this countertop however I think this particular design would look pretty amazing in matte so as you can see the backsplashes and the front panels are quite large they're very tall and the way we extended the design up and over the front is by pre painting it I don't know if you can see that much see that slight pink that's here that is from just wet-on-wet painting the under painting and we did it on the back wall so you can slightly see pink here and here and here and so by doing that you can a limb eliminate alleviate you don't really have to worry about putting your design up that continues down if you just pre paint it up a little bit before the resin I think people tend to overthink backsplashes because they want the design to continue up and if you don't have it in such a way don't do what he's doing wear gloves we ran out of gloves if you can avoid trying to continue a design down then you should do that because it's gonna try to flow like this just north south instead of at any kind of diagonal we did this with them we applied the dark later in the setting process so that it would stay where we want it to can use resin over a tiled floor sure this part of the bar top was actually marble tile that looks like the fireplace is the same tile is this and so it had grout lines and everything luckily the grout lines weren't so deep and so there you can kind of see one here where the paint kind of caught but this was marble tile now you can't do it Claire's right I would consult someone that does flooring because you probably have to do a whole bunch of prep work for floors I I want to do a floor but I just don't want to do that kind of prep work also this building isn't level so we had a lot of runoff down this side but I think that the shift from it not being exactly level left some really interesting design elements that you can only really achieve by tilting a countertop as opposed to just doing it in place so we don't do prefabricated countertops like in our home and then install them we don't do any kind of construction at all we only do countertops in place like this yeah this is my favorite spot of the whole thing my favesies see so you don't want to overheat your resin and when you mix it up especially if you use like a power tool you're gonna introduce a lot of bubbles into your epoxy and so in order to get all the bubbles out and leave your countertop with a beautiful finish or complexion you hit it with heat but you don't want to use too much because then you'll thin it and it'll just run off your surface so we have a hair time out on my thought hold on so what we do is we'll hit it with some heat to pop the initial bubbles we'll let it rest for an hour and they'll come back and hit it with heat again and pop anything that may have come up which more bubbles that are more deeply encased in the resin will work their way out as time goes on and don't don't worry about your drips right now I would I would worry about them probably two or three hours maybe just hit those because if you if you get rid of your drips now they'll just come back mm-hmm that's just for beginners probably do that and then they can't they just keep doing it I got it thanks so in order to get your resin to run smoothly down a vertical surface instead of doing kind of a drip look like this separation right here it does that where the resin is non-existent so if you coat it all in some resin before you do a like run your hand across it with resin on it and then you pour your resin it'll drape more evenly instead of giving you those like tear dropy type of drips and he's right we're all will come back in an hour or so and wipe this drip line off there's something in it right there behind your cup well thank you Angela I I think it's beautiful nay nay this is not the top coat we're not doing this piece in mat using the top coat by stone coat is a whole another ballgame it is very time sensitive and beautiful but you have to make sure like our client wanted a high gloss countertop if she wanted Matt then we would have definitely done what we needed to do to get it to look how she wants it to but she wanted high gloss Jen said unusual for pink to be in a kitchen but it's subtle and amazing so this client is super into pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink she loves it she loves all things pink and so she wanted initially originally to have a pink with white countertop and then after doing some sample pieces we decided on white with pink and some gold and deep pink accents I think it turned out stunning but you know I might be biased so we hand painted some gold onto the countertop because we're using molten gold or liquid gold by Montana you can see it kind of right there just very fine lines thank you man well in Austin rumple preach I'm so in love with that apartment gives mid-century vibes doesn't it and October being pink month that is very true Jen I didn't even think about that agreed Clara thank you Holly Ollie oxen free so I think it turned out great I think it accents the pink that she has in here already really nicely so Jen this this deeper pink that I have in here let me find a good bit of it so that darker pink I mean it's got some liquid gold throughout but that darker pink color is from resin art I don't have the jar out here anymore but it's a it's called platinum rose the deep pink is platinum rose it's from resin art I carried on my website and it is it gives that deep grayed out color when it's under the other pink so it looks you know how marble has different variations of whites and grays that's what we were kind of going for with that deeper darker pink and I think it really it really did the job nicely because we didn't want to go grays and blacks because her kitchen is pink pink pink pink pink a little bit of white and also gold is this a four-day project so we did give ourselves five days for this project in case something does happen to it today we have to come back in and do another flood coat tomorrow ideally our process is coming in doing the prep work all this masking off which takes a few hours and then we'll do the base painting and that has to degas or off gas overnight or 24 hours is ideal so that the paint doesn't trap gas under the resin which could cause yellowing over time then after that time is passed we'll do the art layer let it cure we do light sand it with 400 grit sandpaper and then we'll do we'll wipe it off with something alcohol and then we do the clear coat gold are perfectly done thank you your mom's and she loves this I agree it's pink but not like oh that's pink thank you Kim appreciate it Clara she should hire you guys to do the cabinet doors so surprisingly this amount of space is 50 square feet doesn't look like it right but when you add a 5 inch backsplash let's 4 inch and a 5 inch backsplash and a 5 inch front splash I don't know what that's called it really adds up so doing a whole bunch of like 20 by 36 doors I think it would look awesome but that would be it would basically double the cost I think it would double the square footage I would thank you man'd I would like to do my countertops before we moved to Texas I think it would help the market I think it would too because it's custom and that's something that this client was particularly excited about is that I kept her involved with the whole process of designing all the elements for what we're going to do to her kitchen all the shades of pink that she wanted and a slight little bit of sparkle in some areas that is Milky Way breaking through right there and so she really liked to that customization process because I mean you can buy pink things you can buy marble but I don't know that you can buy pink marble without it being insanely expensive yeah your mom's in here Rachel says she doesn't like pink at all but this is gorgeous for someone else it isn't overwhelming oh thank you the girl like oh vamp says she did her countertops and doing that 100% help the sale agreed Jen so once this is set for about an hour we're going to come back in and hit it with one more bit of heat on the top to pop any other bubbles that may be coming to the surface which I don't even see any right now to be honest but since we can't mask it off we're going to be coming through and picking out anything that lands in it we're going to keep a close eye so we don't have to do another flood coat we're going to keep a very close eye and make sure nothing comes into it and ultra baby it we will start scraping off the under drips in maybe three hours and we'll come back in with an acetone wash yes this is countertop sets up a lot faster we'll come in in like three hours and like acetone wash the front to get any drip texture smoothed down and Kim wants to know how long till you untape two days untaping after two days is way too long we'll pull the tape when we do the drips we'll pull this tape I don't know about that tape yet that tape can stay this tape can stay but the top tape since it does have resin touching it against the wall we'll come back in and move this tape out in like two hours once it's like that hot glue gumminess you can always check that by getting up onto these drops right here and if you like take a popsicle stick and touch it and pull it out if you can pull like a two-inch string then that is set enough to pull your tape to where it'll melt back down into itself without having to use the heat to remove it because you don't want to thin your resin out right when you do that make sure you pull a tape towards you so that you don't get anything on your wall not that you could pull tape away from you because there's a wall there but like try to fold it back over onto itself almost pulling you don't want any don't pull like straight up because you don't want any strings to get on the wall or into your design or whatever so this all this under here when you can run your hand across it without how do we say that without telling someone to put their hand in their resin if you just if you just if you can just swipe your hand across it without it sticking I mean if you put your hand on it and you lay it on there and fingerprints come off you're in trouble you're in trouble so don't you know if you're gonna test it just literally like this is obviously a couple hours like hours hours after right if you can just kind of swipe your hand it's hard to say an exact hour because your ambient temperature and humidity and dryness have a huge factor to play in how quickly your resin sets yesterday we did our art coat at 10 a.m. and by 10 p.m. technically we could have done a flood coat because we could run our hand across it without anything moving but we don't want to risk it for the biscuit so we just did it just now right now today and so what was I saying so we'll probably come back around 10 p.m. tonight because we're in dry California air and remove all of this once we're sure that no more dripping is gonna happen because ultimately this is protecting everything in the kitchen right then she should color match the cabinet doors to the fridge so we actually color matched this paint is the paint that we pre-brushed on so this like under paint is the same it's called cupcake pink by bear and hi Sue her fridge I think she's gonna do something with because it's right now it's contact paper that she found that's pink but since her door was silver it kind of dulled it I know she's gonna paint her handle I'm pretty sure gold or white to match the owner hasn't seen it yet she's supposed to be here at 10 30 flash 11 to check it out with her mom Susan did an ocean poor that was commissioned my husband came down three hours later stuck his thumb in the middle spot that quote he liked about that had a call my bad oh wow not in Texas no Jen we are in we ho West Hollywood LA doing this for a client that googled us on I thought she was fam but apparently she just googled us and we came up so we're here so we're gonna baby this a little bit more that looks so realish and we will keep you guys posted we wanted to do a live real quick and show you what we're up to right now you need to film her reaction see if she'll let you show us okay have you ever accidentally leaned on a counter you just coated have not because once we do a countertop we get out of the way we don't we don't hang out because you don't want to stir up any dust or hair or whatever so you do it and you leave that's typically how it goes but we have like leaned over to try to do for example up here and then our shirt got into the front edge it's right here thank you vamp I hope you're feeling well as well co hopefully she'll become a fan and subscribe so you got that part it's hard to see because we did such a good job with depth on those like fault lines not to toot my own horn but honk come on 50k right hopefully she will become a fan and subscribe your mom says awesome job if you guys don't know miss Eunice Sandoval is who gave us this awesome blue-eyed artist so you can thank her for that you guys see any see any divots we did not use platinum on this this is just the countertop coat client did not want a matte finish client wanted gloss so we didn't use platinum or their top coat finish I guess maybe I should change my title from top coat to flood coat thank you Clara vamp said thank you Eunice he's one of the good ones I concur I appreciate it so much to think there's some bubbles right in here though anyways you guys thanks for tuning in and seeing what we're up to today we just wanted to hop in and show you guys this because you know every piece that we do we're proud of especially when not that I don't like pink but you know when you hear pink countertops you're like oh I don't know about that and so when we can make something what the client wants in their original color range because it happens where people come to us wanting a piece with certain colors and we're like no you don't want that so it makes us happy when we can please our clients and I think she'll love it but I'll see if I can I'll see if I can record her reaction so thank you for all your thumbs all you subscribers please take a moment and share our videos because we are trying to get to that 50k mark and we're not far Megan said you make a great team coming you should get married and then but have someone out of state and she didn't go local well there are get their countertop people that we know that work out here not an LA but close but when you find someone that can do what your vision is you kind of stop stop hunting you know Rachel says you made her dream countertops I hope so man says thank you for showing that's what I thought yeah pink but it's superb oh yeah pink right oh it's very stiff 70s for sure proud of your work we are very so all of her apply actually doesn't mind all of her appliances everything is pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink pink that's the stand mixer that I was sent a picture of two color match by the way if you ever have a client send you something to color match make sure they take the picture outside in natural light because lighting can change the color of anything especially on a camera see Catherine the paint thank you so much I agree it is good water mouth so thank you guys so much for tuning in seeing what we're up to today we will show you the finished product for sure but till then we got a baby this sucker and we'll see you guys maybe later maybe tomorrow we'll see you sometime we love you guys so so much we kind of want another you never know what someone's going through and we'll see y'all me on a later maybe I don't know okay bye