Install Kitchen Cabinets Or Floors First

If you install your cabinets prior to the flooring you will use slightly less flooring materials.

Install kitchen cabinets or floors first. You also dont run the risk of scratching or damaging your flooring during the cabinet installation process. Before installing flooring know how you plan to use it and if you think youre going to change your layout often try putting the floors in first. Which to install first.

Cabinets and appliances without flooring underneath are much harder to move. What I found when the old cabinets were removed was that the tiles didnt cover the entire floor - they only went far enough under the cabinets a few inches to provide for a finished look at all the edges and I think also to provide a level surface for the cabinets. If due to design circumstances for example an odd appliance height or construction anomaly your total flooring height will need to be elevated and finished higher than normaltwo inches or moreconsider installing flooring before putting in the kitchen cabinets and appliances.

But if you are installing any type of floating floor where each piece is not directly attached to the floor you should install the cabinets first. If the cabinets are installed first set them on blocks that are the thickness of the flooring so the countertops will be the proper height once the flooring is installed and be sure to floor under any appliances. I had my kitchen replaced kept the original tile floor.

Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about ½ inch inside the line where it will be under the cabinets. Flooring goes in so quick no fussy cuts that it. Its also a.

Of course you can avoid many of these trappings by starting with the cabinets and installing them first. Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick. Floating floors are attached to each other rather than to a subfloor which allows movement and expansion with changes in humidity.

There is one exception to this rule see below. If youre the type that likes to shake things up you may want to install flooring first. Since this is a full reno far better to lay the floor first and then install the cabinets.