When determing how to install base cabinets on uneven floors check for level and plumb and add shims until the cabinets are at the same level.
How to set floor cabinets.
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An uneven floor will lead to uneven base cabinets and you won t appreciate how crooked they appear next to level upper cabinets not to mention items rolling around behind closed doors.
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Typically cabinets come before flooring.
Join the island cabinets and set them in place.
Those are all good reasons to lay a kitchen floor after the cabinets are in.
Screw 2x2s to the floor 1 2 in.
To begin kitchen island installation first trace an outline of the cabinets on the floor.
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.
If needed place flooring blocks under the 2x2s.
But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described.
If the floor isn t level find the highest point in the floor along the wall where the cabinets will be installed.
In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.
It s best to try to start the base cabinet installation as close to this high point as possible it s easier to shim under the cabinets on the lower spots to make them level with this first one rather than starting on a low point and having to trim the bottoms of the cabinets.
The corner base cabinet sets the trend for all of your other base cabinets so take the time to do this step well.