The benefit of installing the tile assembly after the cabinets stone countertops and other dead loads are installed understanding that the floor was designed to handle these loads is to help ensure the system is placed into compression before the tile is installed meaning the force of downward pressure on the finished installation is minimized.
Should cabinets be installed before tile flooring.
Install tile under cabinets and floor based appliances with a 2 inset this allows you to move the pattern and grout lines where needed.
Mark the layout of the cabinets and all floor based appliances.
Tile or linoleum on the other hand can run all the way to the wall with no problems.
Floor covering or finish flooring is the surface that you see and walk on not the subfloor under the underlayment or underlayment between subfloor and finished layer.
I prefer to install cabinets on the floated mortar including toe skins then have the tile installed.
Install plywood in remaining area to exact height of tile floor to finish cabinet install.
Those are all good reasons to lay a kitchen floor after the cabinets are in.
Put all the base cabinets in place then mark a line on the subfloor corresponding to the front edge of the toekick.
But if you have to install the flooring first here s a method that will avoid some of the problems i just described.
Typically cabinets come before flooring.
Laminate floors should be installed after the cabinetry because the material needs to be able to expand and contract depending on humidity levels.
In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.