Can You Install Kitchen Cabinets Over Laminate Flooring

I m getting ready to install laminate tile in the kitchen.

Can you install kitchen cabinets over laminate flooring. The proper installation would be to install the cabinets and then install the flooring around the cabinets. That is far too thin to get any form of quot decent quot. It has it s place in the market just like vinyl tile hardwood carpet and many other types of floor covering. Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about inch.

The good thing about laminate flooring is that it s easy to repair. It may or may not include removal of old flooring. To answer your question yes you can install cabinets directly over a laminate floor. Vinyl is much more appropriate.

When you place your laminate flooring strips underneath your cabinetry you make the process more burdensome. I would like to know the pro s and cons of intalling the flooring over the new cabinets. Laminate in a kitchen is not considered appropriate. As for the areas left without laminate we recommend uninstalling your flooring to a place where you can add in the necessary planks as if you were installing for the first time and install around the kitchen cabinets.

I just recently did a remodel to my kitchen and used armstrong pacific heights wood laminate the kind that locks together. Cabinets are not recommended to be installed over a floating floor especially cabinets that have a heavy granite counter top. We are planning a kitchen remodel. Laminate flooring has been here for 20 years or better and i can guarantee you its here to stay.

Go ahead and install your kitchen cabinets directly on the cement subfloor. But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described. The contractor wants to install the floor first vinyl interlocking planks. I even had aristokraft install the 7 foot island right over it.

Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick. I ve read warnings against installing tile under cabinets because it prevents the floating floor from expanding.