Installing Cabinets

user-210490 | Posted in General Discussion on May 31, 2024 08:42am

I am building and installing tall cabinets for a community room. They will be installed perpendicularly to a wall that will be covered with a marble type tile. My question is should I have them tile the whole wall and then bring the cabinet up to the wall, or have them stop the tile at a trim board and then butt the cabinet up to the trim board? Appreciate help from those that have done installs like this. Thanks

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_mj_ | May 31, 2024 09:24am | #1
Install the cabinets before the tile.
sparkyII | May 31, 2024 09:55am | #2
take the advice from MJ, you will be glad you did
jharveyb | May 31, 2024 10:12am | #3
put up the trim board first. you will struggle to scribe the cabinet to the irregular surface of the tile. it will never look as good as the tile butted and caulked to the trim board.
pantalones868 | May 31, 2024 02:35pm | #4
Depends- a good tile setter should have no trouble making a good fit. Then there are patterns , how the tile lays out visually. It might not be random. At $30 ,40, 50 dollars a square foot ,and you can easily spend that for good tile ,your burying alot of money and someone elses hard work that can cost more than the tile.
Once upon a time the tile design dictated things like the dimensions of a room, not the other way around as seems to be the norm these days. Best would be to coordinate with who is doing the tile. I've worked off and on with a couple for many years that are astonishing good tile setters. Tilers to the stars, quite literally, and crazy expensive. They are absolutely mercenary on their demands on how things will be and you better do it!
revbob | Jun 02, 2024 09:50am | #5
Ask your tile installer what they think works best?