What order for flooring and fitted wardrobes?

Becles

Just thinking ideas through at the moment, but I fancy redecorating one of the bairns bedrooms and putting down laminate flooring and a huge Ikea Pax fitted wardrobe with hinged doors so she has plenty of storage space.

So, should I put the flooring down first and then build the wardrobe on top of it?

Or build the wardrobe and then fit the flooring around it?

Sorry if this is a dumb question

richardw

It isn't.

If the location in the bedroom where you want to put the fitted wardrobe is the logical place to put one and you wouldn't want to have the fitted wardrobe anywhere else in that room then put the wardrobe in first and then do a floor finish up to it against a plinth fixed to the wardrobe.

phill99

If there is an obvious demarkation (eg plinth etc) at the base of the doors, then put the wardrobes in first and run the floor up to it.

Meepster

To jump on the back of what's already been posted:

Put the wardrobes in first and then do the flooring up to the wardrobes UNLESS the wardrobes have a removable plinth and then I'd fit the wardrobes, do the flooring to just under where the plinth will sit and then trim and fit the plinth, we give a much better finish...

underlay_guru

Run the flooring up to the plinth of the robe - if in a few years time you decide to change the flooring but keep the wardrobes it will prove much easier to replace!

Becles

Thanks - will go back an examine the plinths on the wardrobes

Waffle_On

I have some Pax wardrobes, and they are basically free-standing wardrobes, but sized so you can fit them into recesses. I would suggest laying flooring first, then putting the wardrobes on top. IMO because the base isn't a straight edge all along, it would look a mess if you cut laminate flooring to fit round it, especially when you allow for expansion gaps etc, and beading would at best have some gaps.

If you were going for actual built-in wardrobes, then it would be best to fit the wardrobes first, and flooring second.