Do I need to level the kitchen floor ?

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Dear All,I am just in the process of installing a new kitchen.I have just used a self leveling laser to mark the worktop height.I then used a tape measure to see what the height of this line wascompared to the floor.The diference is 1cm from one end of the room to the other.Now if I continue to use this line to make the worktop and cabinetslevel. Surely the fact that the floor runs out will mean that when Itile the floor it will look a little odd ? Or will this not benoticeable.The floor is floorboards, and I am planning on using 6mm marine plyover before I lay the tiles

Lobster · Accepted Answer

Blimey - luxury! Don't think I've ever done a kitchen with as little fall on it as that..

Not noticeable. Make the worktops level, by adjusting the feet of the different units accordingly. You probably won't even need to cut down the kicker boards, you'll probably find that there will just be a bit more gap at the top edge of the boards at one end of the kitchen than at the other, which will be concealed by the overhang of the below-worktop cupboards.

David

Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) · Answer

Mine is nearly 2 inches drop away. Guess who started at the low end with thekick boards full height? I now have to fill the difference at the high endsomehow as I can't and won't start all over again!

andysideas · Answer

Thanks guys.just taking a 5 min break, all going well so far.Although the brackets to hold the wall cabinets seem really wrong.The is a bracket which mounts to the wall and looks like _____[   _    ][  (  )   ][  (  )   ][   o    ][  (  )   ][  (  )   ]And the one on the back of the units has a large round screw head thatcan adjust from the other side (inside) the wall cabinet. It just seemsto sit there. I thought that the wall bracket would be shapped toaccept the bracket on the back of the cabinet, rather that just havinga flat top

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