Should You Put Flooring Before Or After Cabinet Installation

Those are all good reasons to lay a kitchen floor after the cabinets are in.

Should you put flooring before or after cabinet installation.

Go easy on your wallet by saving floor installation for last. Installing your cabinets first will allow for the flooring to expand from temperature differences for the best fitting. One of the benefits to installing the flooring prior to the cabinets is there will be fewer cuts to make. The one exception install floating hardwood floors after the cabinets if you are installing a hardwood floating floor or any floating floor such as cork or laminate you should install the floor after the kitchen cabinets are installed.

The flooring contractor will not have to work around existing cabinetry so the work can go that much faster. Floating floors are clicked together and not adhered to the floor. But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described. Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick.

Whether you go with hardwood tile or vinyl having a wide open room allows for more full pieces of flooring to be installed. 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. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. There s really no need to panel these obscured areas.

This can save the installer time.