Installing the floors before the cabinets has some advantages.
Install tile floor before or after cabinets.
Cabinets are installed after the finished floor.
The flooring contractor will not have to work around existing cabinetry so the work can go that much faster.
Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick.
If they want to change flooring at a later date you don t have to remove the cabinets.
Those are all good reasons to lay a kitchen floor after the cabinets are in.
Typically cabinets come before flooring.
In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.
But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described.
Floor covering or finish flooring is the surface that you see and walk on not the subfloor under the underlayment or underlayment between subfloor and finished layer.
Makes the tile installation much easier due to not needing to cut the tiles around the base of the cabinets.
The finish can be applied after the cabinet installation lessening concerns about marring the floors during the remodel.