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.
Do you install kitchen cabinets before tile flooring.
Installing the tile before the cabinetry means the newly installed tile floor will likely be the workbench for the other trades involved in the project as well as being susceptible to abuse and damage.
Install cabinets first to avoid this issue.
If you install wall to wall flooring the panels may run out of room to expand.
Many types of floors including click lock hardwood and floating flooring expand due to changes in temperature and humidity.
There are some that want the tiles down first which is okay but if the floor is out then you end up with gaps and most of the time the builder gc does not plan to put shoe mold around.
Shim up base cabinets keeping in mind the underlayment and flooring thickness the base cabinets should be raised up to accommodate the thickness after installation of the floor.
Mark the layout of the cabinets and all floor based appliances.
Just make sure the durock or tile backer is down first.
Install plywood in remaining area to exact height of tile floor to finish cabinet install.
The finish can be applied after the cabinet installation lessening concerns about marring the floors during the remodel.
There are a couple quality items to consider when installing the cabinets before flooring.
Install tile under cabinets and floor based appliances with a 2 inset this allows you to move the pattern and grout lines where needed.
Otherwise the cabinet toe kicks and countertop will be short.
Then install cabinets then the tiles can go down.
Typically cabinets come before flooring in most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.
The flooring contractor will not have to work around existing cabinetry so the work can go that much faster.
Arrange your kitchen before laying down panels for a scratch free floor.