Which first, kitchen or flooring?

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I know the advice is generally to fit a new kitchen and then lay the floor. I also get that with kick boards it doesn’t matter that the whole floor isn’t laid. However, at the end of a run of units we will have an end panel that goes all the way to the floor so if we fit the kitchen first we could only floor up to this, not under this. So is it worth laying the floor first? We are having luxury vinyl flooring

We did floor first

Always floor 1st

We’re mid kitchen remodel at the moment. Floors went in this week, cabinets coming next. If you have the option definitely do the floor first, it will look so much better.

If you do the floor first, there will not be a multiplicity of cuts and gaps that spilt milk and ants can get under, and it will look neat even if you later change or move an appliance or unit.

However the fitters will grumble that they can't spill paint and glue on the floor, or throw knives at it, without being blamed for the damage they cause.

You can put down protective hardboard or other sheeting, or some people open out the cardboard packaging from the unit doors and put that down.

We have an engineered wood floor and we decided to do the floor after the kitchen so that the weight of the kitchen was not on the floor. However the end panels were not fitted until
after the floor so the floor sits under these and the finish in neat.

We did kitchen first, then floor. It was a mistake - learn from my mistake - floor first!

Am I missing a trick here? What if you change the floor in a few years time, won’t it be stuck under cabinets?
Just interested, not nit picking!

Floor first, otherwise you're blocking things in – like washing machines. You're also changing the height of the counters relative to the person using them, albeit only by a cm or so.

As for changing the floor – if you're fitting a new kitchen wouldn't you want it all to last a good 10-15 years before changing any part of it?

Floor

Agree with everyone else, floor first - no matter how much the kitchen fitters grumble.

We have been told by two karndean suppliers to do the kitchen first, then floor. Is this wrong??

Floor first , my bil is a joiner and did my kitchen and told me floor first .

Definitely with Karndean too?

Always floor first.

We had Karndean and the fitter said they always do it after the kitchen. It is so sodding expensive I was happy not to pay for flooring no one would ever see!

I am almost 3 years on from a nightmare kitchen installation. Fitter insisted kitchen first then floor. He failed to level floor after ripping up half the old tiles and the kitchen has never been level.
Needless to say 3 years on and the kitchen company is coming to remove the kitchen at their cost.
I will be tiling the entire floor before even looking for another kitchen.