Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Jan 09, 2014 3:40 am When building a new house (on concrete slab) does the flooring (timber or tile) in the kitchen go wall to wall, under the built-in kitchen cabinetry? - so if cabinetry is changed in future, the floor is uniform; or do the kitchen cupboards go in first and the floor go only up to the kick boards? - which would save a little money on flooring. But if you're having a floating floor it is installed with a few mm gap b/n it & the wall- covered by skirting or scotia. You don't want a gap b/n the floorboards and the kick boards, but I don't think you'd put scotia on a kickboard either. So the flooring would have to go under the kickboards at least? But then wouldn't the kickboards have to be cut to allow the boards underneath? It seems quite common to get flooring companies to come in after hand-over - when I assume the kitchen is finished? Re: Which comes first: kitchen or floor? 2Jan 09, 2014 11:23 am The answer to your question is: it depends If you get flooring done by your builder they (and you) will usually want to cut costs and therefore not put flooring in underneath the kitchen cabinets. The same will often be the case if you get the flooring installed after handover as obviously the floorers didn't have the ability to access the home prior to the kitchen being put in. With respect to floating flooring they can put quad (which may be the same thing as scoria?) in to fill any gaps (between floor and skirting or floor and cabinets). Some people don't like the look of quad but I personally think it looks fine. Of course if you stipulate to your builder and/or floorer that you want the flooring to go under the cabinets they may be able to cater for that to occur. I have heard of builders leaving the skirting off or only tacking it in place so it can be re-installed after the floors are laid. Whether that could also be accommodated to put the flooring underneath your cabinets is something you'd have to ask your builder about (I'm just thinking, for example, that an island bench with plumbing and electricals going to it is not going to be easy to take out and put back in!) Hope that helps Re: Which comes first: kitchen or floor? 3Jan 20, 2014 8:34 am We are getting Tectonic floorboards which are getting installed as the very last thing. I did not want tradies walking all over it with dirty work boots in case it got scratched. I really dislike the edging that sometimes goes between the cornices and floorboards so our floors with slide under or skirtings and kickboards if that makes sense. Our builder is very meticulous so does not have an issue doing this. http://chasingcoconut.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Which comes first: kitchen or floor? 4Feb 27, 2014 1:30 pm Hi Kylie, If you are buying a floating floor in cannot be installed under your kitchen. If you don't want to use scotia, then ask your flooring supplier to use either border or senior end trims around the kitchen, this is a much nicer and cleaner finish. This is the trim that you use wherever your timber floor meets another floor type, i.e. carpets or tiles. Thank you. Do I use timber floorboards for stairs or do people use timber treads? Or is both the same? 6 3810 CDC Housing Code 3 When to apply Floor Area external face of wall vs Gross Floor Area internal face of wall. Reading thru CDC Housing Code 3, lets take a lot 915sqm.… 0 11680 isn't a garage level with the rest of the house a given? pretty sure they 'came around' long time ago. if you have a flat block, the garage is usually level with the rest… 1 13370 |