Can You Install Kitchen Cabinets Over Laminate Flooring

We are planning a kitchen remodel.

Can you install kitchen cabinets over laminate flooring.

If it s damaged you can replace a small section without having to replace all of your flooring. I m getting ready to install laminate tile in the kitchen. Vinyl is much more appropriate. The proper installation would be to install the cabinets and then install the flooring around the cabinets.

Laminate flooring has been here for 20 years or better and i can guarantee you its here to stay. Laminate in a kitchen is not considered appropriate. I even had aristokraft install the 7 foot island right over it. Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about inch.

That is far too thin to get any form of quot decent quot. I would like to know the pro s and cons of intalling the flooring over the new cabinets. 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.

It has it s place in the market just like vinyl tile hardwood carpet and many other types of floor covering. Go ahead and install your kitchen cabinets directly on the cement subfloor. 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. Installing the cabinets on the flooring could bind the floor due to the weight of the cabinets.

When you place your laminate flooring strips underneath your cabinetry you make the process more burdensome. I just recently did a remodel to my kitchen and used armstrong pacific heights wood laminate the kind that locks together. The good thing about laminate flooring is that it s easy to repair. If you need everything done for 3 000 remove old floor purchase new install new then you are down to 1 sf for flooring.

It may or may not include removal of old flooring. To answer your question yes you can install cabinets directly over a laminate floor.