What we do

Kitchen Flooring

Kitchen flooring is a straightforward job with one recurring complication: whatever you add has a thickness, and the dishwasher does not care that the floor is prettier now.

Under the appliances or up to them

Flooring can run under the dishwasher and range or stop at the cabinet line. Running it through is tidier and makes future appliance swaps easier; stopping short saves material and can trap the dishwasher when the floor height rises. The decision is worth making deliberately rather than discovering it when an appliance will not come out.

Transitions and height

A kitchen usually meets at least two other floor finishes, and every added layer changes where those meet. Doors may need trimming. The threshold to an adjoining room may need a transition strip that did not previously exist. None of this is difficult, but it is frequently left out of quotes.

Permits and older floors

Flooring is a finish and is not permitted work in the cities covered here. The exception worth knowing is age: removing an old resilient floor in a home built before 1978 can disturb painted surfaces or older floor materials, and work disturbing paint in a pre-1978 home falls under the EPA's lead-safe renovation rule. If the house is old and the floor is original, raise it before demolition day.