Installing Built In Cabinets Over Carpet

It will be our secret that the old carpet is still under there.

Installing built in cabinets over carpet.

Anchor the island cabinets to the 2x2s with screws. Cabinet and millwork installation forum from contributor m. 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. On the inside of the line to account for the thickness of the cabinets.

You should use them in front of your built ins. 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. 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. Ultimately you will have to decide whether these are important enough reasons to make a permanent alteration to your flooring.

Below are the two main reasons that installing cabinets on top of carpet is not a good idea. It seems like much less of a headache. When you pull up the carpet and baseboard you ll see the tack strip. You ll probably want a tool called a knee kicker carpet stretcher to properly re attach the carpet to the tack strip.

You also need to remove the carpet padding which is under the carpet. The cabinets will last longer than the carpet and will just be a mess when it s time to install new carpet. If the carpet is changed later the carpet can be cut around the cabinetry and a new tack strip applied at that time. If you are careful you can re use it but it is cheap to replace.

Have you thought about just installing over the existing carpet. Typically cabinets come before flooring in most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering. Here s the key to making all this work. So cut back the carpet and padding where the cabinets will go.

Well you ll simply cut the carpet around the cabinets and cut in the new carpet or flooring around them. I d want the cabinets secured directly to the floor not through carpet pad. If needed place flooring blocks under the 2x2s. They ll squish the carpet and sag.

Carpet is retained at the edges by tack strips. Installing cabinets on carpet is not recommended because. Design the cabinets with detached bases of 3 4 plywood. 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.