Install Doors Before Or After Laminate Flooring

After removing the existing flooring baseboards and quarter moulding check that the subfloor is solid flat and clean.

Install doors before or after laminate flooring.

In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. Laminate flooring is ready to install as long as the base floor is clean and smooth. Before the floors go in you can easily shim one end of the jamb to get the door exactly plumb. Also maybe others are more careful but i found it s hard not to ding the floor a little bit when doing doors afterwards.

Before you begin you need to ensure your sub floor is ready for install. Those are all good reasons to lay a kitchen floor after the cabinets are in. After floors this would be a huge pain to do since you would need to pull the door out and saw the jamb. Since most new laminate flooring uses a click lock tongue and groove system you ll have to trim off with your saw the upper groove of the laminate plank that comes before the notched piece.

If you go with carpet that has a pile i don t think it matters either way. But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described. Typically cabinets come before flooring. This way you will not have to notch the flooring around or undercut the jamb or casing.

Now install the notched laminate planks in the doorway. You can use a planer or a power sander to make your. Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick.