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I'm no pro but from my experience of renovating my house I would say it's always going to be better and easier to do it with an empty room (no cabinets). You can do the whole process of sanding and finishing in a weekend. So if you feasibly can I would do the floor first with the most amount of space available.
Tomo187
Paging @nefarious and @tbc
I still can't get a quote from anyone for sanding my floor so I'm thinking again about doing it myself, else I may be without a kitchen this side of 2021.
If I build the kitchen cabinets first and then sand the floors, am I going to wish I did it the other way around? The plan is to use Osmo oil and proceed as follows:
~~ I will at this point have a functioning kitchen ~~
At some point I also need to get the tiler to come in and tile the walls above the worktops.
The benefit of this approach is supposed to be that I get a kitchen back (the flat is really hard to live in at the moment) and I can take my sweet time doing the floor repairs.
Another benefit is I can consider getting an engineered floor or tiled floor installed, using the existing boards as a subfloor, albeit up to the base unit plinths rather than under them, as an alternative to repairing and sanding/oiling the boards. I can see a benefit to this approach and I would do it now, but I can't get any quotes for anything.
Basically I am losing my mind a bit after a month without a kitchen, no space in the rest of the flat, working from home, no contractors able to give quotes for joinery or floor work. Just trying to figure a way to move forward.