Fixing floating floor installed under kitchen cabinets

We renovated our kitchen/dining room and had new solid bamboo floors installed floating over a cork underlay. The builder asked me if we wanted the floors to extend under the cabinets, and stupidly I said yes. My thinking was that if it didn't the cabinets around the walls would be at a different height to those ones making up the central island, which would have to be on top of the flooring. So now we have the whole kitchen (and island) resting on top of the floating floor, and it's pinning the floor down so it can't move/expand/contract correctly. This causes the floor to lift in the centre of the room when sunlight streams in through the new bi-fold doors (south facing) and heats the floor up. I'm pretty certain it's the heat rather than humidity as it lifts with sunlight then drops back down when it gets cooler.

Is there a relatively simple fix which won't involve dismantling the kitchen?

plcanonica, good evening.

Question? does your kitchen base units have plastic screw down feet to facilitate the leveling of the base unit?

If so??? simplest fix i can think of would be to unscrew the feet, cut away an area of the new floor, allowing a margin around the footprint of the foot, then screw down the foot, if you do this one foot at a time ??

Ken.

KenGMac said:

plcanonica, good evening.

Question? does your kitchen base units have plastic screw down feet to facilitate the leveling of the base unit?

If so??? simplest fix i can think of would be to unscrew the feet, cut away an area of the new floor, allowing a margin around the footprint of the foot, then screw down the foot, if you do this one foot at a time ??

Ken.

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^ this.

Finding a tool to cut the holes will be tricky due to access, would be easier to just cut the flooring away from the unit areas.

Builder should never have installed the kitchen on a floating floor though.

The units do have plastic screw legs but the bamboo flooring is incredibly hard to cut. I do think it may be eaasiest to cut away all the flooring behind the baseboard of the units.

Multi tool will cut quickly and in confined space, cut along front edge under plinths which will hide cut.