You now have the ability to video conference with a stone pro from the convenience of your living room or home office.
If you still want to, we have a showroom connected to our fabrication factory and remnants lot in Barrington.
The truth is this, you do need to select your material in person. There is no substitute because colors are never truly represented electronically.
However, by all means, begin the process, exchange all the detailed information, work with a highly qualified stone consultants for pricing and scheduling all from the convenience of your computer, tablet, or phone. Anywhere you are connected.
After 38 years of innovation and leadership as Chicago’s premier stone fabricator of choice, we are launching a brand new shopping platform, using the same tools we have come to rely on and appreciate for convenience as we work from home, go to school remotely and enjoy our entertainment.
You can do everything required now without traveling or leaving your home – except for selecting material. That is not going away.
Selecting material begins with the type of project.
- Large Installations – you select material at one of many stone warehouses we partner with in the area.
- Small Installations – you select material from the thousands of remnants available for viewing at MGT Stone in Barrington.
- Fabricate only for pick up – you select material from the thousands of remnants available for viewing at MGT Stone in Barrington.
Material Selection at MGT Stone – Warehouse Partner Network
Large jobs equate to slabs of material, where small projects like bars, vanities, table tops are typically fabricated using remnants. This is a way to save money, as remnants are more cost effective and the smaller the project, the more financially prudent it is to use remnants.
So savings is the plus, the negative is you are relegated to selecting only from available inventory (MGT Stone has the largest selection).
The policy on remnant inventory is – it’s there for us to fabricate, not to sell to other fabricators or sell direct to clients in raw form. The really small projects ore often “Fabricate only”. In those instances, We will not send someone to measure, and then run a crew out, to install.
With Fab only – The pre-production drawing with precise dimensions is the responsibility of the client, and must be produced on a provided document and signed. Finalization requires payment in full – up front (by check to avoid the credit card fee pass through of 3%, added to the total)
Clients are called on completion for pick up in 3-4 weeks.
Large Projects needing slab materials.
While we do have some inventory of material to select from at our fabrication location, we are not a stone warehouse. Our slab material is mainly consignment, and is a small representation of what is available in our local market.
At MGT Stone in Barrington, we work through our network of Stone Wholesale partners – using roughly 30 independent stone warehouses in the Chicago area.
Our Partners source their material from the origination quarry (Typically in either India or Brazil) and it is shipped in bulk by boat, rail and truck to their warehouse locations. They arrive in bundles. Blocks of stone that have been sliced like a loaf of bread. Bundles can be
The Stone warehouses only sell to fabricators, so they would be classified as Wholesalers.
When a client selects their material from a whosevers’ inventory, a “hold sheet” is emailed to the clients preferred fabricator.
Once we receive this detail, we plug in the size of the slab (s) and material cost, along with the calculated area for the project.
Our pricing algorithm generates a cost per square foot based on that custom project using the variables above.
Once the client’s decision has been made on which material at the respective price point.
If the selection is natural stone – We move to the all-important “specific slab for use selection” phase.
Since natural stone is highly variable – Like a fingerprint. No two slabs are identical.
We recommend a 2nd visit by the client to identify your specific slab or slabs to be used in fabrication.
Everything else can be done remotely – conveniently and expeditiously.
Save Time – Money and aggravation and work with authentic stone experts – it’s incredibly easy and convenient.
Call MGT Stone at 847 713 8023, or email tcimino@mgtstone.com to schedule an consultation today.