On Dec 27, 12:20*pm, Jeff B wrote:
On Dec 27, 11:58*am, Mikepier wrote:





On Dec 27, 10:33*am, Jeff B wrote:

As part of my kitchen remodeling, I am having an installer (not me!)
put in hardwood flooring. *Its the same boards that run in the hall
and dining room.

To avoid dinging and scratching the floor, I had always thought of
installing floor cabs and appliances BEFORE calling in the floor
installer. *In other words, have the floor be the LAST job. *The
appliances and cabs will sit on 3/4" plywood to get them up to final
floor height. *But I just realized that if I take this approach, the
installer will have no way to nail under the recessed portion of the
cab! *No room to get the nailer underneath and nail that end of the
board. *This is probably not an issue for tile floor installation.

Is my logic correct? *When installing wood flooring, what's the proper
sequence?

--Jeff

Hey Jeff.
I think it just makes thing easier if you did the floor first, then
the cabinets.If you are worried about scratching the floor, you could
always tape down protective plastic drop cloth or something else in
the vicinity where the toe kick will be since this is the spot where
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I'll be checking with the installer but I'm now thinking "floors
first" is the proper sequence. *I have friends who had their kitchen
reno-ed and the workers scratched the living sh*t out of their new
wood floors moving cabs and appliances around. *I'll just have to use
old carpet/mats/cardboard/whatever to protect the floor.

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I would be worried also if someone else was doing the kitchen cabinet
install, but since you are installing it yourself, at least you will
go that extra mile to protect the floors.