In article , "Don" wrote:
Installing a kitchen for a freind. Any problems with installing cabinets
before flooring? It would be convenient to get cabs in as flooring might
take a few to arrive.

There are several problems with installing base cabinets before the flooring:

It's *much* easier to install the flooring if you don't have to cut it to fit
around cabinets.

Installing flooring wall-to-wall, before the cabinets go in, provides much
better protection from spilled liquids (and easier cleanup besides).

Some time in the future, that kitchen is going to get remodeled again. Next
time around, the arrangement of the cabinets may be different. If you've laid
the floor covering wall-to-wall, it can remain (if it's still in good shape)
or new floor covering can be laid directly over it. But if you've cut it to
fit the cabinets, it will have to be removed, and probably the underlayment
along with it, making the job a *lot* bigger than it needs to be.

It doesn't matter nearly as much with the wall cabinets: they can go up before
the floor covering is laid, but they get in the way when you're running a
floor roller over the floor.

IMO the easiest order is floor, wall cabinets, base cabinets.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

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