Can You Put Laminate Flooring Under Kitchen Units

To answer your question yes you can install cabinets directly over a laminate floor.

Can you put laminate flooring under kitchen units.

Will do it right when i put a cabinet on the other side of the kitchen. Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about inch. Installing laminate flooring under cabinets is a very common question for homeowners. I certainly would prefer to see the cork under the appliances.

I just recently did a remodel to my kitchen and used armstrong pacific heights wood laminate the kind that locks together. 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. Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick. Typically cabinets come before flooring.

Is it ok to install laminate flooring first then set kitchen cabinets on top of the laminate. I am going to bump this up hoping some of the flooring folks will see it. Any solution other than pulling the cabinets out and reworking. 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.

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. I even had aristokraft install the 7 foot island right over it. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. Have a question remodeling kitchen and put laminate flooring down before i put in cabinets on one side of kitchen.

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. I like the idea of the flooring running under the cabinets as long as it doesn t harm the laminate floor.