Installing Floor Cabinets

Install plywood in remaining area to exact height of tile floor to finish cabinet install.

Installing floor cabinets. Those are all good reasons to lay a kitchen floor after the cabinets are in. Screw the cabinet to the blocking with two. It s best to try to start the base cabinet installation as close to this high point as possible it s easier to shim under the cabinets on the lower spots to make them level with this first one rather than starting on a low point and having to trim the bottoms of the cabinets.

Mark the layout of the cabinets and all floor based appliances. But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described. Typically cabinets come before flooring.

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. The corner base cabinet sets the trend for all of your other base cabinets so take the time to do this step well. If the floor isn t level find the highest point in the floor along the wall where the cabinets will be installed.

Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick. Identify the highest point on the floor where you will be installing base cabinets. Kitchen floors especially those in older homes are often not perfectly level and flat.

In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. Shim clamp and screw the frames together. Kitchen floor cabinets photo 11.

This is a critical step because every part of your diy cabinet installation relies on the reference point you make. Kitchen floor cabinets photo 10. An uneven floor will lead to uneven base cabinets and you won t appreciate how crooked they appear.