Tiling vs Wooden Floor - Kitchen/Living Area

wackojacko1979

Hi Folks, Some advice required!
Putting an extension onto the kitchen, which will extend our kitchen dramatically into our new living area, total area when complete will be approximately 45m^2. The question, if tiling or installing wooden floors, should the tiles/floor extend under the new units/kitchen? I am confident tiles would be best installed wall to wall before fitting kitchen, but what about wooden/laminate floors? Any thoughts or suggestions?

MightyMunster

wackojacko1979 wrote: »

Hi Folks, Some advice required!
Putting an extension onto the kitchen, which will extend our kitchen dramatically into our new living area, total area when complete will be approximately 45m^2. The question, if tiling or installing wooden floors, should the tiles/floor extend under the new units/kitchen? I am confident tiles would be best installed wall to wall before fitting kitchen, but what about wooden/laminate floors? Any thoughts or suggestions?

Just got our new kitchen extension floored this week and it's a balterio laminate and we were told by the supplier not to put under units as it prevents movement. It's slotted under kickbacks and gables but not all the way under. Looks great.

wackojacko1979

Thanks Munster!

KFiddles

It depends on whether you're floating your floor or gluing it down. If it's glued take it under the cabinets. If floating, it needs to be free of the cabinets. If you don't put it under the cabinets get extra flooring just in case you decide to make changes in the future. Chances are you'll never get a match otherwise.

Calahonda52

best practice here is to have drop zone of tiles, about 60cm wide, all along the worktop area and then put in the laminate

wackojacko1979

Calahonda. Forgive my ignorance but I assume you mean putting in tiles wherever cabinets are being installed, the same thickness as the laminate flooring? And then laminate up to the cabinets as normal?

Calahonda52

no, tile out from kick board about 600mm to catch all the crap that falls off in the drop zone and then put the laminate.

There is only so much mopping and cleaning laminate will take around sinks, stoves ovens, bins, dishwashers etc.
The tiling would go in under the kick-boards and the ends of the cabinets