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The question is no longer relevant for me. I spoke with a floor installer who thought that if it's going to be worthwhile, you should have a slope to level with, which becomes quite a lot of work. He suggested simply using ready-made trays, so I accept his reasoning..
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I'm tinkering with the kitchen and there's plank flooring there. I'm now considering a smooth solution under the kitchen cabinets to achieve a "sealed surface layer" as it's nicely called in the building regulations. I know there are ready-made plastic trays of various kinds, but it might be unnecessarily expensive and complicated to install under the cabinets.
My question is whether it's simple enough to install a piece of plastic flooring with an upturn under the cabinets yourself. What I'm mostly pondering is how difficult it is to install around a corner/at an angle, since the kitchen is a corner solution, so I probably need to seam in the angle. Additionally, I'm wondering how to achieve reasonably tight pipe penetrations in plastic flooring, and if you can get it to lie flat under the cabinets without gluing it down—you might need to glue it to get a bit of upturn on the wall.
I've never done anything with plastic flooring, other than tear out old fully glued vinyl, so I have little insight into how the materials work. The flooring won't be visible, just lying as a 600mm strip under the cabinets (or rather 500 perhaps, considering the recess at the base).
The question is no longer relevant for me. I spoke with a floor installer who thought that if it's going to be worthwhile, you should have a slope to level with, which becomes quite a lot of work. He suggested simply using ready-made trays, so I accept his reasoning..
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I'm tinkering with the kitchen and there's plank flooring there. I'm now considering a smooth solution under the kitchen cabinets to achieve a "sealed surface layer" as it's nicely called in the building regulations. I know there are ready-made plastic trays of various kinds, but it might be unnecessarily expensive and complicated to install under the cabinets.
My question is whether it's simple enough to install a piece of plastic flooring with an upturn under the cabinets yourself. What I'm mostly pondering is how difficult it is to install around a corner/at an angle, since the kitchen is a corner solution, so I probably need to seam in the angle. Additionally, I'm wondering how to achieve reasonably tight pipe penetrations in plastic flooring, and if you can get it to lie flat under the cabinets without gluing it down—you might need to glue it to get a bit of upturn on the wall.
I've never done anything with plastic flooring, other than tear out old fully glued vinyl, so I have little insight into how the materials work. The flooring won't be visible, just lying as a 600mm strip under the cabinets (or rather 500 perhaps, considering the recess at the base).
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Just as a small comment in case someone is considering similar thoughts sometime. The insurance companies almost always require you to have plastic mats (i.e., the ready-made tubs) where machines are to be placed in kitchen cabinets and so on.
Got a good tip from my plumber, place a plastic mat under the cabinet to the sink with incoming water, which folds up a bit against the wall. If a water leak occurs, the water will flow on the mat and out under the cabinet (at the front), as a little warning that it's time to turn off the incoming water. :eek:
That's what I focused on, but the floor layer advised against it if you don't level the floor and also have fold-ups on the edges, which becomes difficult with a mat if you don't have walls on the sides to fold up against, otherwise, the water can escape that way.Västerhaninge 17 said:
I would really like to avoid ugly expensive plastic trays, but that's probably going to be the solution for me anyway.