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I am redoing the flooring throughout the house and the kitchen. The kitchen is IKEA SEKTION based, and the flooring is Fuzion Laminate Nautiq Pro, 9 1/4 inch by 60 inch click flooring. Has anyone used this flooring?
Main question is the island. It will be about 9 feet long with a sink, dishwasher, and heavy countertop. General advice is not to install cabinets or islands on top of the flooring, but I see plenty of kitchens done that way. Because IKEA cabinets sit on legs, I am worried the weight could make the flooring bow, lift, or make noise. IKEA has a SEKTION floor anchoring frame, but it still only rests on a few brackets. I am thinking of building a 2x6 box frame to support the island more evenly. So should the flooring go under the island, or stop at the island footprint? If I stop it behind the kickboard, I am worried spills could run under the exposed flooring edge. Now that I have spent five hours writing and rewriting the above, I am starting to think the best approach is to lay the flooring first. Then I can build my box frame with adjustable legs at every joist and use a hole saw to cut out the flooring at each leg location. My box frame would support the bulk of the weight, while the outside IKEA legs would sit on the flooring mainly to hold the kickboards.
These are the legs I am thinking to use
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Any real world experience with this setup?
