New kitchen - need new floor too?

[AnythingNotEverything]

I'm toying with the idea of a new kitchen. Ours is the one he previous owners out in and it's ok but not to our taste bits also poorly laid out. Actually, I hate it but I could live with it a fair bit longer.

We have savings and I'm tempted to replace the kitchen rather than earning a pittance in interest.

My question is whether we would have to replace the floor if we replaced the kitchen. We have lovely engineered wooden floor through our open plan kitchen diner and don't want to have to pay for new floor across a big area as well as a new kitchen.

Is it worth me even getting someone round to quote? I can love with the kitchen but I can't replace the floor!

(And if you think it's possible, who wood you recommend?)

TIA

I'm a bit confused- are you saying could you put a new kitchen down/in on top of the wood flooring? yes but if the units don't cover the floor then you will have to fill the gaps.

we put in a new ceramic floor to an existing kitchen and kept some tiles over so that when we replaced the kitchen a bit of floor that became exposed was refitted with the tiles we'd kept.

If you want to extend the floor you will need a specilaist joiner or carpenter.

If you replace the kitchen with new cupboards but the same layout there shouldn't be a problem with keeping the existing floor. The problem comes if you change the footprint and end up with gaps.
The other thing is to make sure that they don't damage the floor when taking out or fitting the new kitchen.

Sorry - yes, same footprint of kitchen, we might change the units and work tops and directly replace them with a different style.

I had assumed there's be way too much damage/dirt ... Maybe not.

Thanks for your messages.

We also have spare wood so we could add bits of floor if the footprint did change in future.

your engineered wood is presumably floating or nailed to an existing subfloor in concrete or chipboard. Which is it?

if the floor was fitted after the kitchen, then it probably have gaps under appliances and units (I don't like that as it gives crevices for ants, dirt and spillages)

You could probably have extra boards fitted to go right to the edges of the room, but the colour match will not be perfect. If you have mixed boards of varying colours and shades it will not show much, especially round the edges of the room. It can be really hard to winkle an appliance out when it is under a worktop and has to come up a step onto a post-fitted floor. This makes it effectively impossible to clean under or behind the cooker.

The floor is on underlay on concrete in the extended bit and wood in the original.

It definitely goes under the washing machine but I can't remember whether it goes under the dishwasher. I think it does actually, but wouldn't put my mortgage on it. The oven is raised. The floor goes under the kick boards elsewhere but not to the walls.

I would hope I could replace the units with like for like (size wise at least) without having to replace the floor.

units are a standard size (apart from Ikea) so I expect you can. If you had to add a bit under or next to the kickboards it would hardly show.