Do You Install Kitchen Cabinets Before Tile Flooring
If you install wall to wall flooring the panels may run out of room to expand.
Do you install kitchen cabinets before tile flooring. Otherwise the cabinet toe kicks and countertop will be short. 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. Mark the layout of the cabinets and all floor based appliances. Install cabinets first to avoid this issue.
Just make sure the durock or tile backer is down first. The finish can be applied after the cabinet installation lessening concerns about marring the floors during the remodel. Install tile under cabinets and floor based appliances with a 2 inset this allows you to move the pattern and grout lines where needed. The flooring contractor will not have to work around existing cabinetry so the work can go that much faster.
Installing the tile before the cabinetry means additional square footage for the installer but less detail and trim work. Installing the tile before the cabinetry means the newly installed tile floor will likely be the workbench for the other trades involved in the project as well as being susceptible to abuse and damage. Typically cabinets come before flooring in most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. But it works either way.
There are a couple quality items to consider when installing the cabinets before flooring. There are some that want the tiles down first which is okay but if the floor is out then you end up with gaps and most of the time the builder gc does not plan to put shoe mold around. Arrange your kitchen before laying down panels for a scratch free floor. Many types of floors including click lock hardwood and floating flooring expand due to changes in temperature and humidity.
Install plywood in remaining area to exact height of tile floor to finish cabinet install.