Installing Built In Cabinets Over Carpet

Screw 2x2s to the floor 1 2 in.

Installing built in cabinets over carpet.

Below are the two main reasons that installing cabinets on top of carpet is not a good idea. 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. Cabinet and millwork installation forum from contributor m. 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 the bottom of the cabinet can be set in place on the carpet set it and cut the carpet tight to the cabinet then cut the pad back about 2 1 2 inches from the cabinet then install your tack strip about 1 4 to 3 8 from the cabinet. When you pull up the carpet and baseboard you ll see the tack strip. If the carpet is changed later the carpet can be cut around the cabinetry and a new tack strip applied at that time. You also need to remove the carpet padding which is under the carpet.

You ll probably want a tool called a knee kicker carpet stretcher to properly re attach the carpet to the tack strip. Well you ll simply cut the carpet around the cabinets and cut in the new carpet or flooring around them. If needed place flooring blocks under the 2x2s. They ll squish the carpet and sag.

Here s the key to making all this work. Anchor the island cabinets to the 2x2s with screws. Installing cabinets on carpet is not recommended because. Carpet is retained at the edges by tack strips.

Ultimately you will have to decide whether these are important enough reasons to make a permanent alteration to your flooring. It will be our secret that the old carpet is still under there. 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. To begin kitchen island installation first trace an outline of the cabinets on the floor.

It seems like much less of a headache. The cabinets will last longer than the carpet and will just be a mess when it s time to install new carpet. Have you thought about just installing over the existing carpet. So cut back the carpet and padding where the cabinets will go.

Design the cabinets with detached bases of 3 4 plywood. Typically cabinets come before flooring in most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. Yes built ins should not rest on carpet. If you are careful you can re use it but it is cheap to replace.