Installing Vinyl Flooring Around Cabinets

Those are all good reasons to lay a kitchen floor after the cabinets are in.

Installing vinyl flooring around cabinets.

In your first question on your original post you asked if you install the allure vinyl tile flooring underneath or around the cabinets. Install plywood in remaining area to exact height of tile floor to finish cabinet install. 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 have been installing laminate flooring since the product first became popular.

Typically cabinets come before flooring. 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. Mark the layout of the cabinets and all floor based appliances. To start you ll need to expose as much of the kitchen floor as possible by moving the appliances to another room.

But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described. The short answer is always install around. 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. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.

Install tile under cabinets and floor based appliances with a 2 inset this allows you to move the pattern and grout lines where needed. Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick. If you are installing click lock vinyl plank flooring you should not install under cabinets. And the newer vinyl planks are having issues with this reduced expansion gap.