Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Dec 12, 2008 8:58 am Hi all
Been browsing around these rather useful forums recently - good stuff. I have a question though, which I already think I know the answer, but I'm going to ask anyway. I'm about to do a kitchen reno and as part of that I'm putting in laminte floating floors. Given the expansion/contraction of this flooring, I'm planning on ending the flooring just behind the kickboards on the cabinets. Obviously doing it this way means less coverage therefore potentially less cost, but if I was to install the laminate flooring on the entire floor and have the cabinets resting on top of them, would this be a problem? Ta. Corey Re: Laminate flooring in new kitchen 3Dec 12, 2008 5:59 pm Shouldn't have any probs - just don't use the cheap stuff with a MDF or HDF base. Theres too many spills in a kitchen and it will ruin the floor. Just about completed a renovation project and hit a small issue that we didn’t see We have laminate floors now where we had tiles before (turned out it was actually 2… 0 4919 ShaneG We have been doing heaps of hybrid floors lately. The hollowness is caused by low spots in the slab or subfloor. No slab or particleboard floor is going to be… 1 10377 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair At a bit of a loss on this one - we're thinking the original owners never removed the protective laminate covers from their kitchen cabinets after installation and in the… 0 6328 |