Installing Laminate Flooring In Kitchen Under The Cabinets. Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about ½ inch inside the line where it will be under the cabinets. If you have only 3 inches of space left between the edge of the flooring plank and the kitchen cabinets measure 3 inches in at each end of the laminate plank from the side with the tongue and then add an additional 14 to 12 inch to the measurement depending on the size of the spacers that came with your flooring so that the plank wont fit directly against the cabinets.
Sadly many people install first only to discover the flooring cant be installed under the dishwasher so they install it in front of the dishwasher. Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about ½ inch inside the line where it will be under the cabinets. How level the sub floor is shouldnt be an issue as each unit will have legs that are individually adjustable so a run of units can be adjusted to a uniform level.
Screw a strip of the same thickness to the floor next to the wall.
Base units are better positioned on a solid floor. Sometimes kitchen units can be very heavy and often unbalanced and put huge amounts of pressure on areas of your. If due to design circumstances for example an odd appliance height or construction anomaly your total flooring height will need to be elevated and finished higher than normaltwo inches or moreconsider installing flooring before putting in the kitchen cabinets and appliances. This is fine until the dishwasher needs repair or replacing.
