Can I Install Vinyl Plank Flooring Under Cabinet

The contractor wants to install the floor first vinyl interlocking planks.

Can i install vinyl plank flooring under cabinet.

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. I plan to gut the kitchen and want to just do a clean install as the last step before installing any cabinets counter etc. If the cabinets will outlive the flooring which is usually the case with vinyl plank then put the cabinets in first. I would like to know the pro s and cons of intalling the flooring over the new cabinets.

Go ahead and install your kitchen cabinets directly on the cement subfloor. I have been told that the only time you install cabinets over flooring is if you are intalling ceramic tile as flooiring. However you can put appliances fridge washer dryer etc on top of the vinyl plank flooring. 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.

Instead of doing the base cabinet install then do the floor around. Typically cabinets come before flooring. Pay attention to cancork s advice. That way the flooring can be changed down the road without trying to get it out from under the cabinets.

I have been installing laminate flooring since the product first became popular. This piece should be at least 2 inches wide and about inch thicker than the total thickness of the flooring including any vapor barrier or cushion. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. For installations that go over existing flooring in kitchens where cabinets are already installed i leave a 1 4 gap for expansion and trim out around the cabinets with matching quarter round from the flooring supplier.

Putting cabinets directly on the concrete is the best option for your cabinets and for your flooring.