Wood floors

bandejapaisa · 27 Feb 2014

I was going to leave installing my wood flooring until last in my renovation plans, as it seemed logical to me.

However, after speaking with kitchen designer, he was saying the wood floor needs to go in before the kitchen due to things like appliances not fitting afterwards. It made sense.

However I've got various wires to run and what not, and I want them under the floor boards, so I could do it all now, but how hard is it to lift up the wood flooring once it's laid for access to under the floor?

JohnD · 27 Feb 2014

very much harder than if you do it in advance.

bandejapaisa · 27 Feb 2014

So when the flooring goes down, it's meant to stay down permanently, and you can't easily lift it for access without damaging it?

crazydaze · 27 Feb 2014

What type of wood flooring are you installing?

If you are installing an engineered floor or any floating floor, you cannot fit the Kitchen directly on top of it, With this type of floor it is the norm to fit the floor after the kitchen has been fully installed, end boards, kick boards etc can all be cut and fitted to complete and so can the skirting to cover any expansion gaps etc. If you must install the kitchen ontop, you cannot connect any part of the kitchen to this type of floor so you will need to use a hole saw to pass the feet of units through to the subfloor and allow expansion & contraction gaps etc.

If you are fittting reclaimd or solid floor boards etc,it would be ok to fit ontop.

bandejapaisa · 27 Feb 2014

Oh really... probably the engineered wood flooring. I've got to look into it and the price. I don't really know a lot about it at the moment.

It was the kitchen designer who said it.

So his point was that if I did the wood floor afterwards, then I wouldn't be able to remove the dishwasher for example.

So in this case, really all I need to do is decide how thick the wood floor is going to be, and make sure the kitchen is fitted high enough, and sit the dishwasher etc on top of something.

What do you think?

crazydaze · 30 Jun 2015

I would get yourself a designer that knows what he is talking about, or do his job for him and suggest he allows for the installed height of the new flooring when he designs the kitchen and sets the work top height etc.

crazydaze · 30 Jun 2015

All appliances should sit on the flooring that you are laying. If you re at all concerned about minor leaks, set the appliances in appliance trays on top of the flooring when you push them in place (assuming they are free standing)

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