Raising Kitchen Cabinets For Flooring

Screw this ledger board into the wall at your new upper cabinet height.

Raising kitchen cabinets for flooring. You ll also need to carefully measure and cut planks to fit in all the little nooks where your kitchen appliances go. While your helper secures the cabinet box drill the screws back into the wall. Then paint and caulk and you are good to go. Typically cabinets come before flooring in most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.

So you should cut your 4 x 4 pieces the height you need to raise the cabinets plus the height of that frame. First you remove t. Most all cabinets have that base or frame around the bottom. Using your helper raise the cabinet back up resting the box on the ledger board.

Now install the new flooring but keep it about a inch from the first filler strip. Anywhere the hardwood planks meet a wall or cabinet use a floor spacer to prevent the wood from pushing upward when it expands. Besides i hate replacing a dishwasher where the tile doesn t go under the cabinets. This video will show you how to raise your kitchen cabinets or bathroom vanities to make them three and a half inch higher from the floor.

Makes a nicer finished look and keeps things in the right height. If you are in areas with extremes with humidity either high or low or you have large humidity swings very dry in winter but very humid in summer then an engineered hardwood is the recommended option. I drilled pilot holes straight through the holes in the back of the cabinet box and then i added the screws. Screw a strip of the same thickness to the floor next to the wall.

Finally install the cabinets on both strips and attach the toekicks. Cover this gap with a quarter round. For the final finishing touch add your molding to the top of the cabinets. Does that make sense.

I wanted something simple and clean so we used a 1 2 piece of trim. You just take a thin sheet of plywood cut it to size and brad nail it to the bottom of the cabinets. Cut the 4 x 4 post to the appropriate length you need we did 5 of these for each cabinet one in each corner and one in the middle. 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.

The flooring will be able to expand and contract beneath the toekick without revealing a gap.