How To Fit Laminate Flooring Around Kitchen Units

How to install floating flooring in kitchens.

How to fit laminate flooring around kitchen units.

You typically use the same technique for laying the flooring around the toilet flange the round fitting at the floor under the toilet that you use when laying around a post. It may be tempting to just work around your stove or refrigerator since the floor under these never sees the light of day anyway but doing so can cause problems down the road when you cannot move the appliance over the hardwood lip install an appliance with different dimensions. How to install laminate flooring around a kitchen dishwasher. Follow the directions included with your particular flooring but in general put down one row of laminate end to end and lay subsequent rows.

Floating floors come in a variety of materials such as engineered hardwood or cork but not all are suitable for a kitchen floor installation. Lay the laminate flooring out against one straight wall of the room. Since laminate flooring is usually installed after kitchen cabinets you must cut the flooring to fit around the bases of the cabinets. Toilets seldom present a problem when installing laminate flooring because you have to remove the toilet before laying the floor.

Laminate flooring is a floating floor so we do not recommend installing kitchen cabinets on top of laminate as they could pin the floor down and prevent it from expanding and contracting with temperature changes leading to buckling and separation at the joints. Go ahead and install your kitchen cabinets directly on the cement subfloor. Sometimes things don t go according to plan swapping out a damaged board in a floor that has been cut around kitchen units can be achieved by a competent person especially with glue less engineered wood flooring and laminate flooring swapping out a damaged board or a section of flooring with the kitchen units installed.