Installing Laminate Flooring In Kitchen Under The Cabinets. If you are going to use a laminate then install the cabinets first. The other said to position units first and only run flooring up to the unit legs.
The floor will run upto the cabinetswith the 14 - 38 expansion gap in place. I am in process of fitting a new kitchen and am going to lay laminate flooring. Ceramic tile and all types of vinyl flooring for example work well in the kitchenOther types of flooringsolid hardwood for oneare not recommended for kitchens.
If you choose to install kitchen first please remember to order other trim from the cabinet makers for around the bottom of the cabinets.
It is a sort of floating floor which is installed on a foamy platform and unattached to the subfloor beneath it. Should you install laminate flooring in the kitchen. Screw a strip of the same thickness to the floor next to the wall. For installations that go over existing flooring in kitchens where cabinets are already installed I leave a 14 gap for expansion and trim out around the cabinets with matching quarter round from the flooring supplier.
