Can You Put Laminate Flooring Under Kitchen Units

This makes a floating floor much easier to install and remove than a nonfloating floor but it also allows the floor to expand move shift and bubble in certain circumstances.

Can you put laminate flooring under kitchen units.

But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described. Not sure what the thickness of your flooring is but make sure the cabinets are raised the same amount as the thickness of the floor by putting plywood or something similar under them so that the dishwasher does not get trapped once the countertop is on. Floor covering or finish flooring is the surface that you see and walk on not the subfloor under the underlayment or underlayment between subfloor and finished layer. Double sided tape can be used under the floor to help seams stay put but no adhesive is spread over every square inch of the subfloor.

Will do it right when i put a cabinet on the other side of the kitchen. I am going to bump this up hoping some of the flooring folks will see it. Have a question remodeling kitchen and put laminate flooring down before i put in cabinets on one side of kitchen. Any solution other than pulling the cabinets out and reworking.

Typically cabinets come before flooring. I like the idea of the flooring running under the cabinets as long as it doesn t harm the laminate floor. I even had aristokraft install the 7 foot island right over it. I certainly would prefer to see the cork under the appliances.

Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick. Installing laminate flooring under cabinets is a very common question for homeowners. After several months i now have a little flex and squeak in front of the sink. To answer your question yes you can install cabinets directly over a laminate floor.

In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. When installing laminate flooring in kitchens and bathrooms you cannot place cabinets or any hardware that is meant to be bolted permanently to the floor on the laminate.