Do You Install Laminate Flooring Under A Refrigerator

When installing wooden or laminate floating floors in a kitchen place small planks under a refrigerator running from side to side and allow longer planks to be featured in the main portion of the kitchen.

Do you install laminate flooring under a refrigerator.

I ve read warnings against installing tile under cabinets because it prevents the floating floor from expanding. I m getting ready to install laminate tile in the kitchen. Because the weight of appliances especially refrigerators can stress or break the tongue and groove fasteners select a snap together floor designed especially for kitchens. When installing laminate flooring in kitchens that have a refrigerator many professionals lay the flooring up to the outer edges of the refrigerator alcove.

You have the choice of either removing the refrigerator from the room or working around it. Its fine if you can remove the refrigerator from the room easily but a lot of times its just easier to work around it. I see no reason to not install it in the kitchen and would continue it under the appliances as well. Yes laminate is a floating floor type so it should defiantly go in after the cabinets.

My name is matt capell and i am the owner of capell flooring and interiors in meridian idaho. Installing laminate flooring under refrigerators can be difficult at times.