[mariamcgrath]

Help

Can someone fice me the exact depth of the base cabinets excluding the door but including the toekick. Our tile people are tiling before the cabinets are down and we need to know .
Many thanks

[Gloria]

From the front of the toekick to the front edge of the cabinet ( w /o doors) is 2 3/16."

I've got a counter on top (not attached yet but not easily moved) so I can't get an exact measurement of the cabinet. From the inside back to the front edge is 24." The back can't add more than about 1/8."

Keep in mind that all of the base cabinets may not be perfectly flush with the wall because of slight waviness in the wall.

HTH
Gloria

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[bogiesan]

Originally Posted by mariamcgrath

Help Can someone fice me the exact depth of the base cabinets excluding the door but including the toekick. Our tile people are tiling before the cabinets are down and we need to know .
Many thanks

Be sure you understand EXACTLY how they are going to finish the flooring after you have the base cabinets in place. There will be gaps between the toekick and the tiles, your walls and floors cannot be perfect.

The tilers' schedule may create issues for the cabinet installers. Unless your kitchen is a slam-dunk, straight-line, no-brainer, the tile's immovableness means the cabinet installers must cope with any errors made on the floor.

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[mariamcgrath]

Hi Gloria and David
Thank you both.

We have made arrangements with the tilers to come back next weekend and finish the tiling round the cabinets - hope it works out. Our cabinets are due to arrive on Tuesday and DH and myself are planning on assembly and installation........................aaahhhhhh scary scary scary. We had a quote from an installer but it seemed very high - he told me they were much harder to assemble than they seemed , dont know if he was scarmongering me or what.
Anyway time will tell!!!

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[Harpy]

Do you have a particular reason for not wanting tile under the cabinets? If you can't, you can't but I'm daily cursing the PO here who tiled with everything in place. I want to remove a peninsula and that means paying to have the entire downstairs retiled, just for the sake of four or five square feet. If it's an option, I'd seriously consider tiling under where the cabinets are going. It will give you many more options down the road if you ever want to change anything.

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[Gloria]

Is the height of the subfloor under the cabinets even with the height of the finished tile floor? If not, make sure they tile under the dishwasher, range, and refrigerator places so you'll be able to get them in and out without lifting over a lip of tile. Also, be sure the counters are the right height from the finished floor so the level of the dishwasher and range will be correct relative to that. If your cabinet legs are resting on a lower floor than the finished tile floor, you can just raise the legs higher when they are leveled.

I hope that's understandable.
Gloria

[LightlyStarched]

Here, the typical way to lay a tile floor is to tile around the cabs, and into the spaces for the fridge, range, etc. In the 10 years we've lived here, we've replaced the flooring twice (lino once, then tile). Its much more likely to have to replace flooring than cabs, so cabs go in first. Dishwashers come with leveling legs to bring them up to counter height and ours installed easily, even with a tile "lip".

[mariamcgrath]

thanks all

The additional cost of tiling under all the cabinets is coming in round about $500 - a bit over our budget . Actually I'm well over the budget. They will tile under the range and refrigerator but our contractor says not to tile under the dishwasher, he will put plywood all over the untiled bit to bring it all to the level of the tile. Then hopefully next weekend they can return and finsih tiling to toecap. The issue really came about because I wanted a border tile all round the kitchen and living room.

[cwclifford]

This question should have been answered the way it was originally asked: wHAT is "the exact depth of the base cabinets excluding the door but including the toekick?"

Answer: 21-13/16 or 21-7/8 to accommodate for grout.

I can see this was a question to simply get the square footage for the tile guy to SUBTRACT from the room measurements!