Do You Install Vinyl Flooring Under Cabinets

Its easy to click boards together but how you handle transition areas makes the difference between a professional and amateur looking job.

Do you install vinyl flooring under cabinets. If you install heavy cabinetry such as kitchen cabinets on top it will inhibit the floor from expanding and contracting and can lead to issues such as buckling and damaged locking systems. In this video I. Answered 25th Feb 2015.

Always install the tile to the wall under appliances and cabinets. No floor under cabinets. Im not sure on that.

This goes for any type of flooring although not always for the same reasons. If you are installing click-lock vinyl plank flooring you should NOT install under cabinets. Of any floating floor LVP are by far the most worry-free for thermal expansion.

Since the planks will be glued down to the floor they will not contract and expand with temperature changes. If you have floating floors it can buckle from the added weight of cabinetry. Installing floors beneath your cabinets could cause wood to buckle when it tries to expand.

In fact if you do not allow direct sunlight to hit your flooring dark flooring can go above 120 F in direct sunlight and you never let the temperature in your house go below 50 or above 100 your LVP will never expand or contract at all in the first place. Yes flooring is a big deal when installing kitchen cabinets. If you are installing new cabinets and appliances during your kitchen renovation it likely makes sense to install ceramic tile on the entire floor before you install the cabinets.

If there is movement in the flooring the nylon glides will allow it. The simple answer is that it does not go under kitchen cabinets for floating floors and for non-floating floors flooring goes under kitchen cabinets. It depends who is fitting as a kitchen fitter may damage the floor after Its been laid and of coarse its slightly easier this way another way is to fit most of the kitchen and leave the end panels and plymth off and fit after Vinyl is done if it was my job I would do it this way.