Max Power wrote:
redoing kitchen, now empty. Do I run the wood laminate all the way to
the corner and put cabinets on top or leave the space cut out for the
cabinets?


Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Why pay for floor you will never
see? But the flip side of that, is if you are paying somebody to do the
install, doing all the cuts and fitting around the cabinet bases can be
a PITA. If you are doing the work yourself, you will have to judge what
your time is worth.

Not that I would actually install laminate in a kitchen, but if I was in
your situation, I'd split the difference- diagram out very carefully
where the cabinets will land, and install laminate just past that line.
Fill the void with something cheap of the same height. If you have a
dishwasher, good luck- they always leak eventually, and laminate does
not handle leaks from the side very well. (does anyone make catch basins
for DWs like they do for washing machines?) At a minimum, I'd caulk the
heck out of the lower edges in the dishwasher space, and see if there
was some way to invisibly seal all the joints for several feet in front.
There is a reason people quit using wood or wood-derived flooring in
kitchens and bathrooms.

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