How To Install Kitchen Cabinets On Tile Floor

Your kitchen cabinets look brand new without the hassle of structural work.

How to install kitchen cabinets on tile floor.

Mark the perimeter or outline of the base of the island on the tile floor with painter s tape. If you are installing wood or tile floors consider the thickness of the floor material when you decide whether it should go under the cabinets. Determine how level the kitchen floor is using a six foot level and two footer. Adding tile to cabinets is a rare process.

However this process can be difficult labor intensive and time consuming. It is extremely important to understand what is happening over the tile in relation to humps dips slopes and areas where the flooring is higher than others in all directions. Most people add tile to the countertops. To keep the floor flush consider installing a different cheaper type of flooring underneath cabinets and appliances or even plywood risers.

The potential of mismatched flooring one downside of installing risers or different flooring is that you add a complication if you wish to change the kitchen footprint in the future. Floors are typically laid before cabinets are installed leading to the question of how to anchor a cabinet to the tile. The units i am installing here are 720mm high and the plinths 170mm tall making the total height 890mm to which you can add 5mm tolerance. The trick is cutting the tile around the cabinets using the proper tools.

But actually tiling the cabinet can add a beautiful decor to any cabinet face. But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described. Ceramic or porcelain tile lends a modern look and feel to a kitchen. In just a few simple steps you will be on your way to becoming a kitchen cabinet decorating genious.

To determine which height to install kitchen cabinets measure the height of the floor units of the plinths and also the tiles or floor covering if not already laid. Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick. Set the island cabinets in place on the floor. Advertisement method 2 of 6.