46+ Kitchen Floor Or Cabinets First

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46+ Kitchen Floor Or Cabinets First. This is especially true for laminates that degrade from moisture. It seems like it would be easier to lay the flooring first and not have to cut it to fit against the toekick or to cover up the gap with shoe moldings.—thomas bourquin, spring valley, ohio.

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Floating floor or cabinets first? Use the laser line to help guide your installation to keep the top of the box level. I think you are far more likely to want / need to change to floor covering if you are installing a hardwood floor in the kitchen going under the cabinets may make it easy for future kitchen renovations.

This is the main draw for those who start with floors.

You will have empty voids under cabinets where the dips or low spots in the floor exist, since you installed the cabinets level according to the highest point in the floor. My new kitchen was built on top of my old floor. We were initially leaning toward putting down the cabinets first, since it would require less flooring and be easier to remove pieces of laminate if they get. When redoing a kitchen you might think the important choices are your appliances or kitchen cabinets, but if your floors can't handle the heat, you first, the lowdown.