Flooring under kitchen units-good idea?

keystone

Flooring under kitchen units-good idea?

Nope.

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keystone

andrew-b wrote: »

Other thing i'd say about putting down flooring after the kitchen is installed is to make sure the kitchen fitter sets the units at a height to allow for your choice of flooring to go under the plinths. Our kitchen fitter failed to do that so we had to trim all the plinths once we had tiled the floor - was easy enough to trim with a table saw but it was hassle all the same.

Your kitchen fitter was actually correct in what he did. He was not contracted for the flooring I presume neither did he know (was he told?) what flooring was being installed. Trimming the plinths after the flooring event is 100% usual. I recently tiled a kitchen whwre the fitter had decided himself how much to trim off the plinths before I tiled the floor. Result plinths ½" too short all the way round and very very roughly cut resulting in a very poor finish. Mind you none of the worktops were properly secured which I had to do before tiling the walls nor were they level either but thats another story!

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keystone

andrew-b wrote: »

Yes i told them exactly how much gap to leave. Also discussed with them the height to mount wall units..even marked it on the wall but they still chose to ignore it. Was a catalogue of other errors/probs too. Would have been better off installing the whole lot ourselves TBH.

OK I understand but he was still correct not to trim the plinths however bad he was at everything else. You just can't be accurate with it until the flooring is in and down. He should have told you that when you said make them "x"."y" cm tall.

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keystone

Oh yes thats what he should have done no doubt. I agree with you totally though. If you've agreed to do something one way then thats the way it should be done even if the customers way costs him more money and he understands that impact fully.

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milliebear00001

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I am having vinyl flooring in my kitchen. I was planning to fit this under the units so that it's easy to get appliances in and out. The difference in cost is fairly minimal as well. Am I OK to do this?

hotcookie101

milliebear00001 wrote: »

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I am having vinyl flooring in my kitchen. I was planning to fit this under the units so that it's easy to get appliances in and out. The difference in cost is fairly minimal as well. Am I OK to do this?

I would make sure you put the appliances on an offcut of vinyl so you can move them in and out. We had vinyl flooring put in, and into the gaps for freestanding appliances, and they sink into it and it then rips if you try to move them Hence why now going for wood. Other people say vinyl is good for the kitchen, but we have had nothing but trouble with it Not cheap either-over £800 from carpetwrong. I reckon you can get better stuff though...

Enterprise_1701C

We fitted our own kitchen many years ago straight onto the concrete floor and then floored around it. This has made it very easy to change the flooring and a few years ago we fitted veneer flooring. We cut the plinths down a little then covered them with the same veneer flooring, and the flooring is carried on to underneath the freestanding fridge and washing machine. It works very well, and have only broken one glass on the floor in all the years it has been there, nothing else. Would highly recommend going with veneer, it has been damaged over the years but still looks OK and we know we are not faced with a huge bill to replace it when the time comes, and putting it on the plinths has made the kitchen look bigger too.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

We had the flooring laid over the complete floor when we did our kitchen from scratch.
The kitchen company said it was the best thing to do,mind you we were having a stone floor laid but they said it did'nt matter what we laid.
We've never regretted it,the appliances just slide out and everything is on one level.

hotcookie101

I think, especially with wood, and with granite tops, I don't want to take the risk of movement. If we were tiling it might be different...

The concrete floor is probably going to need latex screeding-I presume we do that before the kitchen goes in?

Am thinking order of things-remove kitchen/flooring/tiles, get any electrics moved, replastering done, floor screeded, then fit kitchen, worktops templated, fitted then flooring? We have an american FF in diner area-its on wheels, but moves mainly in straight lines-I'm presuming we can do floor in sections then roll it back up?