Installing Built In Cabinets Over Carpet

Design the cabinets with detached bases of 3 4 plywood.

Installing built in cabinets over carpet.

Typically cabinets come before flooring in most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. The cabinets will last longer than the carpet and will just be a mess when it s time to install new carpet. You should use them in front of your built ins. Yes built ins should not rest on carpet.

Here s the key to making all this work. Then knee kick the carpet over the tack strip and use a putty knife to push the carpet down between the tack strip and cabinet. Below are the two main reasons that installing cabinets on top of carpet is not a good idea. If the carpet is changed later the carpet can be cut around the cabinetry and a new tack strip applied at that time.

On the inside of the line to account for the thickness of the cabinets. You ll probably want a tool called a knee kicker carpet stretcher to properly re attach the carpet to the tack strip. Have you thought about just installing over the existing carpet. 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.

Well you ll simply cut the carpet around the cabinets and cut in the new carpet or flooring around them. It will be our secret that the old carpet is still under there. If you are careful you can re use it but it is cheap to replace. To begin kitchen island installation first trace an outline of the cabinets on the floor.

When you pull up the carpet and baseboard you ll see the tack strip. I d want the cabinets secured directly to the floor not through carpet pad. Carpet is retained at the edges by tack strips. They ll squish the carpet and sag.

Ultimately you will have to decide whether these are important enough reasons to make a permanent alteration to your flooring. Screw 2x2s to the floor 1 2 in. If you re installing a very large set of cabinets then seriously consider cutting around the base and taking the foam tack strip and carpet out. You also need to remove the carpet padding which is under the carpet.

If needed place flooring blocks under the 2x2s. So cut back the carpet and padding where the cabinets will go. It seems like much less of a headache. Cabinet and millwork installation forum from contributor m.