Installing Built In Cabinets Over Carpet

Cabinet and millwork installation forum from contributor m.

Installing built in cabinets over carpet.

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. Well you ll simply cut the carpet around the cabinets and cut in the new carpet or flooring around them. You also need to remove the carpet padding which is under the carpet.

I d want the cabinets secured directly to the floor not through carpet pad. Installing cabinets on carpet is not recommended because. If the carpet is changed later the carpet can be cut around the cabinetry and a new tack strip applied at that time. It seems like much less of a headache.

Carpet is retained at the edges by tack strips. If you are careful you can re use it but it is cheap to replace. Typically cabinets come before flooring in most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. Anchor the island cabinets to the 2x2s with screws.

They ll squish the carpet and sag. It will be our secret that the old carpet is still under there. Screw 2x2s to the floor 1 2 in. Yes built ins should not rest on carpet.

You ll probably want a tool called a knee kicker carpet stretcher to properly re attach the carpet to the tack strip. 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. Ultimately you will have to decide whether these are important enough reasons to make a permanent alteration to your flooring. If needed place flooring blocks under the 2x2s.

When you pull up the carpet and baseboard you ll see the tack strip. 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. So cut back the carpet and padding where the cabinets will go. The cabinets will last longer than the carpet and will just be a mess when it s time to install new carpet.

On the inside of the line to account for the thickness of the cabinets. Design the cabinets with detached bases of 3 4 plywood. Have you thought about just installing over the existing carpet. Here s the key to making all this work.