Can You Put Laminate Flooring Under Kitchen Units

After several months i now have a little flex and squeak in front of the sink.

Can you put laminate flooring under kitchen units.

I even had aristokraft install the 7 foot island right over it. 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. To answer your question yes you can install cabinets directly over a laminate floor. Typically cabinets come before flooring.

Is it ok to install laminate flooring first then set kitchen cabinets on top of the laminate. I certainly would prefer to see the cork under the appliances. Will do it right when i put a cabinet on the other side of the kitchen. Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick.

I like the idea of the flooring running under the cabinets as long as it doesn t harm the laminate floor. When installing laminate flooring in kitchens and bathrooms you cannot place cabinets or any hardware that is meant to be bolted permanently to the floor on the laminate. Double sided tape can be used under the floor to help seams stay put but no adhesive is spread over every square inch of the subfloor. But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described.

In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about inch. I am going to bump this up hoping some of the flooring folks will see it. Installing laminate flooring under cabinets is a very common question for homeowners.

Not sure what the thickness of your flooring is but make sure the cabinets are raised the same amount as the thickness of the floor by putting plywood or something similar under them so that the dishwasher does not get trapped once the countertop is on. This makes a floating floor much easier to install and remove than a nonfloating floor but it also allows the floor to expand move shift and bubble in certain circumstances.