New Kitchen Floor Under Cabinets

Typically cabinets come before flooring.

New kitchen floor under cabinets. This piece should be at least 2 inches wide and about inch thicker than the total thickness of the flooring including any vapor barrier or cushion. Install tile under cabinets and floor based appliances with a 2 inset this allows you to move the pattern and grout lines where needed. Install plywood in remaining area to exact height of tile floor to finish cabinet install. 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.

Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about inch inside the line where it will be under the cabinets. Cabinets before flooring setting the cabinetry in place before installing the flooring means not having to worry about floor damage during cabinet installation. New tiles can be added to tile flooring but hardwood flooring that has been under cabinets will always have a different look than floors that have been walked on. Mark the layout of the cabinets and all floor based appliances.

Demo the cabinets demo the floor install the hardwood sand with stain 2 coats of poly install the cabinets install the countertops then add the 3rd and final coat of polyurethane. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. It may be tempting to just work around your stove or refrigerator since the floor under these never sees the light of day anyway but doing so can cause problems down the road when you cannot move the appliance over the hardwood lip install an appliance with different dimensions. Here s the recommended sequence of events for kitchen remodeling when it comes to floors cabinets.