Installing Kitchen Cabinets Over Laminate Flooring
Olivia Luz
Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about inch inside the line where it will be.
For installations that go over existing flooring in kitchens where cabinets are already installed i leave a 1 4 gap for expansion and trim out around the cabinets with matching quarter round from the flooring supplier. I would like to know if we can install laminate flooring before or after installing our new kitchen cabinets counter or should we build kitchen first and then install laminate. Screw a strip of the same thickness to. Go ahead and install your kitchen cabinets directly on the cement subfloor.
We reside in fl where temperatures fluctuate less than other areas and the a c is usually on all year. Laminate flooring is a floating floor so we do not recommend installing kitchen cabinets on top of laminate as they could pin the floor down and prevent it from expanding and contracting with temperature changes leading to buckling and separation at the joints. On new kitchen installs or where the cabinets are not yet installed or are being replaced i always install the flooring first then install the cabinets on top and trim out with quarter round or base shoe if needed to hide gaps due to un level floor conditions or make up a. Installing flooring first put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick.
The north american laminate flooring association as well as leading manufacturers of laminate recommend installing cabinets first then butting the laminate flooring up to within a quarter inch of the cabinet s kick plate and covering the gap with quarter round moulding.
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