New kitchen fit laminate floor before or after?

after

 

definatly after just dont 4get to run it into were the appliances will sit integrated or free standing, as it makes it easier to remove them for service or repair.

 

Do not lay laminate in a kitchen or bathroom.It is guaranteed to swell and lift with water spillage.

 

KTF maybe not in a bathroom but laminate in a kitchen is fine.Had quickloc v groove down in mine for 5 years no probs and dont mark with a dropped pan!!

 

KTF i kind of agree with you as in i wont fit it for a paying client, but i have a Egger laminate in my own and it has been fine also have quickstep in my bathroom for 4 years and that is also good but again i DEFE wont fit em for a paying client in either room.

but the OP asked when to install it so we told him!

 

Agreed you'd be better off not fitting in a kitchen. It might be alright but then again it might not and I've seen plenty where it isn't.

 

I'm sure there are kitchens where laminate is not a problem but why take the chance. I would never fit laminate for a customer even at the cost of losing a job.In my experience if you explain to the customer the pit falls of laminate they come around and choose an alternative.

 

i have a customer who wants laminate fitting after i have put the kitchen in, now im worried

i thought the tile laminate was made for kitchens?

also how do you go on with leaving an expansion gap round your appliance spaces and end panels? i was thinking of doubling up the end panel with a lipping on the front then routering out a groove either side at the bottom or take the end panel out run the laminate through then fit some metal dowels into the bottom of the end panel then drill 15mm holes through the laminate for the 6mm metal dowels to sit through and onto the concrete

any tips?

 

just remove the end panels then cut them so they sit on the flooring! thats how i did mine!

 

Didn't entirely understand your post but leave the skirting, plinths and end panels off, lay the floor then fit the skirting, plinths and end panels.

 

yeah i though about fitting the end panels ontop of the floor but will be using 10mm mat under the floor so was worried about it pushing down on the floor and creating a dip then if ever there was a spillage it would head under the end panel

 

also how would you fix it down if you did that

 

fix what down?

 

the end panel at the bottom front

 

Are you for real ? Asking how to fix the end panel !

 

er yes whats your problem

 

your not one of them leave it loose type are you?

 

I see what wuddy is getting at,,, Say you had your units in a run then a gap for w/machine , dish washer then an end panel to support the w/top. The end panel would have to be fixed at floor level as well as to the w/top. I dont think just fixing to the w/top and the wall would suffice? Or would it???