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Install Wood Floors Before or After Kitch Cabinets? Jeff B 12-27-2007
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Posted by Jeff B on December 27, 2007, 10:33 am
As part of my kitchen remodeling, I am having an installer (not me!)
put in hardwood flooring. Its the same boards that run in the hall
and dining room.

To avoid dinging and scratching the floor, I had always thought of
installing floor cabs and appliances BEFORE calling in the floor
installer. In other words, have the floor be the LAST job. The
appliances and cabs will sit on 3/4" plywood to get them up to final
floor height. But I just realized that if I take this approach, the
installer will have no way to nail under the recessed portion of the
cab! No room to get the nailer underneath and nail that end of the
board. This is probably not an issue for tile floor installation.

Is my logic correct? When installing wood flooring, what's the proper
sequence?

--Jeff

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