Should I Install Flooring Or Cabinets First

But if you do decide to install your cabinets first fear not.

Should i install flooring or cabinets first. However i lean to the installing flooring after because of reduced risk of damage during kitchen remodel activities ease of replacing repairing flooring. Also your floor is less likely to experience damage in the form of dents or scratches when you put the cabinets in first. The one exception to this rule is if you are installing floating hardwood flooring these should be installed after the cabinets have been installed. Besides protecting the finished product there are other benefits to installing the flooring after cabinets.

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. That is why it s important to install the flooring first so that if you decide to change the kitchen appliances or cabinets you will still have the same flooring covering the entire area. I have an existing kitchen and want to redo the floor to be hardwood floor and replace the cabinets. My question is how to insure the cabinets are will be the same height since hardwood floors will be installed under the dishwasher and the oven.

Given a choice should base cabinets be installed on top of the finished flooring or shimmed to floor thickness and install flooring as final step. While it uses more flooring material the installation requires less cutting and fitting. First the quantity of flooring needed will decrease by the area under the cabinets. No time or money will be wasted on hidden flooring.

Installing flooring first but if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described. It seems it s recommended to install cabinet first before installing the hardwood floor. When installing cabinets first you need to tell your cabinet makers counter top installers of the clearance needed for the dishwasher with the extra added height of the floor. Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick.

Amy asks when remodeling a kitchen should you install the cabinets or finished flooring first i prefer to put the finished flooring down before installing the cabinets though it can be done either way. This gets a lot of the heavy objects out of the way prior to putting down your new precious flooring material. Read on to find out more. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.

Typically cabinets come before flooring. I can see reasons for doing it either way.