Removing dishwasher when Laminate Flooring runs right up to it

[HeyBub]

Uh, why not?

[benick]

I agree , but maybe budget constraints are the issue...Still I would have used vinyl first..JMHO....

[h]

Agreed. Laminate is NEVER appropriate for a kitchen. Unless you never, ever use it. I have several friends with McMansions and their kitchen counters and appliances are the only dusty surfaces - they never, ever cook. Bizarre!

[Ned Flanders]

My flooring is the same (bought it this way) - laminate in the kitchen would not my first choice if I were to redo the floors. I replaced the dishwasher and as others pointed out I just had to lower the legs and lift it over the edge. I shimmed up the floor under the counter with wood the same thickness and slid the new dishwasher in.

[hrhofmann]

Yeah, a scrap of the correct thickness plywood will allow future sliding without any problems.

[HeyBub]

I ask again, why not?

[HeyBub]

Some, but probably not all, manufactured laminate is impervious to water. Also dog drool, baby pee, petroleum solvents, alcohol, fuming acids, and molten lava.

I had some laminate left over from reworking a spare room and used it for the kitchen's COUNTERTOP! (It looks like butcher-block). After about a year, I've added to laminate's list of features that it doesn't stain, scratch, break, expand, or do anything but just sit there and look swell.

Much like my first wife.

[HeyBub]

Absolutely false. Perhaps the kind of manufactured laminate made from discarded Cherrios' boxes will have some problem, but the laminate I've used is impervious to water.

When I say "impervious," I mean unaffected within the precision of my measuring instruments, visual inspection with a loupe, or any practical experience.

You are grievously mistaken and I caution you: Others with views similar to yours have been locked away in places with "Asylum" in their names.

[Alex]

Thanks for all the great replies, and it definitely makes since how it works now. I have replaced a dish washer in the past, but it just slid in where the old one was with no adjustments needed, but then again that was with a vinyl floor that was very thin.

Take care --

Sam

[HeyBub]

I did that with $.79 laminate from Lumber Liquidators, except I used a micrometer. And left the stuff in the water for a MONTH!

Thickness expansioni was within 0.001", lateral expansion was within 0.002," both of which were within the precision limitations of my micrometer.

I worked on scraps with a wood rasp, a nail, and a rock. I banged it with a hammer. No scratches or dents.

I'm tellin' you, they should use that stuff as water-line armor plating for battleships. If we still had battleships.

[dwgcat33]

I have now read your entire conversation and have decided that there is no reason on earth to ever put Tile in a kitcken. I stand on concrete floors 1

0 hrs a day. Not in my kitchen it is hard on feet and my china.I currently have pergo laminate in my bathroom and it has gotten wet in past. After 10 years of water being splashed and even a leaky toilet it still looks graet when steam mopped but I am installing something new just for a change. I am in process of installing laminate in kitchen. I looked at the vinyl option s but they do not have insulating and thickness of laminate. But you have c onvinced me to caulk and stop under front feet of dishwasher. Thanks