Cabinets or Flooring first?

[JRSC00LUDE]

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‘member when people used real wood flooring that could be refinished?

[B.Spilner]

Cabinets always first. Flooring is one of the last things you do to help minimize damage.

[ExtraSlow]

If my flooring is going to get damaged by professional appliance installation, then my kids will sure as hell fuck it up in the first thirty days of ownership.

[speedog]

I currently install and service cabinets for a living, do mark outs and inspections as well.

General rule of thumb is cabinets before flooring and other finish carpentry. Base cabinets are raised to accommodate flooring plus a sixteenth, after cabinets are done flooring goes in and usually it's cabinet toe and furniture kick installed after so it can be mounted snug to the flooring.

Tile floors will generally see cabinet toe/furniture kick put on first because tiles will be cut to fit around cabinetry.

Are there exceptions, sure there are but it is mostly in the renovation world where customers are keeping an existing floor in place.

Have installed well over 400 kitchens and am currently a cabinetry charge hand on a 347 unit site, all of them are cabinetry first, then flooring, then cabinetry toe kick and last is base boards.

[prae]

I sincerely appreciate the time that all of you took in sharing your knowledge and experience! Thank you.

[Nufy]

I just completed an Ikea kitchen cabinet install and did flooring first wall to wall.

Certainly gives you an option if you need to change anything in the future.

[Rocket1k78]

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Yeah sucks to have fewer cuts, idiot.

Not only is his job way easier he'd be making a bit more for the extra footage, idiot is putting it nicely lol

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I just completed an Ikea kitchen cabinet install and did flooring first wall to wall.

Certainly gives you an option if you need to change anything in the future.

Valid point on the option to change things later but are you really going to be replacing kitchen cabinets and not the floor later on? if anything most will be redoing the floor way before they go to the extent of new kitchen cabinets

[Thaco]

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Not only is his job way easier he'd be making a bit more for the extra footage, idiot is putting it nicely lol



Valid point on the option to change things later but are you really going to be replacing kitchen cabinets and not the floor later on? if anything most will be redoing the floor way before they go to the extent of new kitchen cabinets

i bought a house where i wanted to renovate the ikea cabinets that were installed in the MBR closet...



and of course the laminate was discontinued, so i had to use a different flooring, fucking pissed me off, made the job 5x harder than it needed to be.

[bjstare]

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Valid point on the option to change things later but are you really going to be replacing kitchen cabinets and not the floor later on? if anything most will be redoing the floor way before they go to the extent of new kitchen cabinets

Perhaps you missed the part where he said they were ikea cabinets.

[Thaco]

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Perhaps you missed the part where he said they were ikea cabinets.

you've clearly never done Ikea cabinets properly, i did them 5 years ago and they're good as new, for 1/5th the price, i'd do them again without question. I moved in to another place with "kitchencraft" and they felt like just trash, i'd much rather my ikea soft close for a fraction of the price.

[ExtraSlow]

Ikea cabinets are similar quality to most builder cabinets. Hardware actually better.

[bjstare]

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you've clearly never done Ikea cabinets properly, i did them 5 years ago and they're good as new, for 1/5th the price, i'd do them again without question. I moved in to another place with "kitchencraft" and they felt like just trash, i'd much rather my ikea soft close for a fraction of the price.

I guarantee you I haven't done them "properly", whatever that means. They were in my kitchen when we moved in and were awful.

Comparing one builder-grade cabinet to another is like comparing hyundai to kia.. or another hyundai, I guess.

[killramos]

The ikea cabinets in my house are complete trash.

Cheap. But trash.

[suntan]

Interesting! What's been bad about them? I see a lot of people loving them when they're first put in.

[Nufy]

My wife loves them in the new kitchen...
Thats all In need.

[davidI]

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Interesting! What's been bad about them? I see a lot of people loving them when they're first put in.

Could depend on when they were purchased as well. I'd say Ikea's quality has improved a lot over the last decade...

[Tik-Tok]

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Interesting! What's been bad about them? I see a lot of people loving them when they're first put in.

If someone goes from driving a 1986 Hyundai Pony to a 2022 Chevy Spark, they'll probably rave about it too.

[JfuckinC]

i did ikea in the house i just moved out of, 7 years they were still mint. just have to buy the expensive doors and drawer fronts and they're good quality. Soft close parts were still perfect, handles were nice. no issues.

I tiled the kitchen floor first, ikea cabinets have adjustable feet so it was easy to line up things like the stove and stuff elevation wise. would fully recommend ikea cabinets anyday.

[Rocket1k78]

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i bought a house where i wanted to renovate the ikea cabinets that were installed in the MBR closet...



and of course the laminate was discontinued, so i had to use a different flooring, fucking pissed me off, made the job 5x harder than it needed to be.

Closets are the total opposite to the kitchen, flooring is normally always done first(wall to wall) unless you're doing a full custom unit or it was a DIY special lol