Can I Install Vinyl Plank Flooring Under Cabinet

I would like to know the pro s and cons of intalling the flooring over the new cabinets.

Can i install vinyl plank flooring under cabinet. 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. In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. If the cabinets will outlive the flooring which is usually the case with vinyl plank then put the cabinets in first. I have been installing laminate flooring since the product first became popular.

Typically cabinets come before flooring. Go ahead and install your kitchen cabinets directly on the cement subfloor. However you can put appliances fridge washer dryer etc on top of the vinyl plank flooring. Pay attention to cancork s advice.

Also the instructions specify that the vinyl should not be install where temps get below 55f or above 85f. Putting cabinets directly on the concrete is the best option for your cabinets and for your flooring. We do not recommend putting click lock vinyl flooring under cabinets as the floating floor needs to be able to expand and contract. Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about inch inside the line where it will be under the cabinets.

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 have been told that the only time you install cabinets over flooring is if you are intalling ceramic tile as flooiring. I plan to gut the kitchen and want to just do a clean install as the last step before installing any cabinets counter etc. The contractor wants to install the floor first vinyl interlocking planks.

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.