Installing Hardwood Floors Around Toe Kick At Kitchen Cabinets

How to install hardwood floors around kitchen cabinets.

Installing hardwood floors around toe kick at kitchen cabinets.

To start you ll need to expose as much of the kitchen floor as possible by moving the appliances to another room. It may be tempting to just work around your stove or refrigerator since the floor under these never sees the light of day anyway but doing so can cause problems down the road when you cannot move the appliance over the hardwood lip install an appliance with different dimensions. No molding is there now. The existing toe kick extends out beyond the cabinet about 1 4 inch.

If you re installing hardwood floors in an existing kitchen it is possible to run your hardwood floors up to the base cabinet toe kick. This will be covered by the toe kick area of our cabinets. If there s something in your path when you re laying wood flooring including a cabinet you have to move it if you want to get the flooring underneath. I m installing 2 1 4 x 3 4 hardwood flooring in my kitchen.

If you are going to put in a hardwood floor and it is a total of 1 1 2 and you want 4 toe kick then the kick should be 5 1 2 tall and the cabinets should be 37 1 2 tall from the concrete. How to install wood floors under cabinets. And it doesn t mat. The most difficult part of forming this type of installation is being able to cut close to the toe kick of the base cabinets without damaging the cabin.

Before installing hardwood floor around kitchen cabinets and door jambs don t forget to watch this short video. Connect with a cabinet specialist. Do not install under the cabinets but it s ok under the refrigerator and dishwasher. Third part of wood flooring installation.

I completely gutted the kitchen and had planned on installing the hardwood floor under the new kitchen cabinets. Crazy that there was already a recess for the refrigerator to be pushed back it was not used effectively in the previous kitchen setup. Hi i m in the process of having a hardwood floor installed in a kitchen. To complete the job i m planning on installing a shoe molding along the bottom of the toe kick on the base cabinets.

It can be helpful for you. Since then i ve heard both stories. Includes how to install hardwood flooring around cabinets tools needed to install wood floors and how to finish up. Accommodate for the flooring thickness in your toekicks.

Part 7 9 in our installation video series covers toe kick installation.