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.
How to lay laminate flooring under kitchen units.
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.
Follow the directions included with your particular flooring but in general put down one row of laminate end to end and lay subsequent rows.
Since your floor will be floating on the subfloor and connected solely by the locking system it needs space to expand and contract with temperature changes.
Lay the laminate flooring out against one straight wall of the room.
How to install laminate flooring around a kitchen dishwasher.
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.
Those are all good reasons to lay a kitchen floor after the cabinets are in.
But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described.
One of the most asked questions when it come to engineered wood solid wood laminate flooring in kitchens would be.
I have been installing laminate flooring since the product first became popular.
Go ahead and install your kitchen cabinets directly on the cement subfloor.
In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.
Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick.
Laminate flooring is a type of engineered flooring utilizing a snap and lock system during installation.
Since laminate flooring is usually installed after kitchen cabinets you must cut the flooring to fit around the bases of the cabinets.
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