Can I Install Vinyl Plank Flooring Under Cabinet

We do not recommend putting click lock vinyl flooring under cabinets as the floating floor needs to be able to expand and contract.

Can i install vinyl plank flooring under cabinet.

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 installing laminate flooring since the product first became popular. Putting cabinets directly on the concrete is the best option for your cabinets and for your flooring. Go ahead and install your kitchen cabinets directly on the cement subfloor.

Instead of doing the base cabinet install then do the floor around. Remove the cabinets and screw a plywood filler piece to the subfloor about inch inside the line where it will be under the cabinets. I have been told that the only time you install cabinets over flooring is if you are intalling ceramic tile as flooiring. However you can put appliances fridge washer dryer etc on top of the vinyl plank flooring.

This piece should be at least 2 inches wide and about inch thicker than the total thickness of the flooring including any vapor barrier or cushion. That way the flooring can be changed down the road without trying to get it out from under the cabinets. I plan to gut the kitchen and want to just do a clean install as the last step before installing any cabinets counter etc. Typically cabinets come before flooring.

If the cabinets will outlive the flooring which is usually the case with vinyl plank then put the cabinets in first. 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. Also the instructions specify that the vinyl should not be install where temps get below 55f or above 85f.

The contractor wants to install the floor first vinyl interlocking planks.