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It's pretty normal to scribe them to the floor in kitchens I'm making. Same with skirting boards.
Place the plinth on the floor and mark the undulations, cut that with a jigsaw. Now it's scribed to the floor cut a straight line to match the line of the bottom of the cupboards. Allow a little wiggle room.I like to add the special plastic strip under the plinth material as it stops them sucking up moisture and covers any ragged edges from the jigsaw.
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Kitchen plinths: mine are nominally 80mm high (Ikea) but in some places the floor is uneven and so the height is larger - I've wound out the height adjusters on the cabinet legs to accommodate.
How to deal with this for the plinths? I'm using solid timber. Option 1: use 80mm timber, leave a gap at the top in some places. Option 2, gap at the bottom. Option 3, cut a taller piece of timber to suit.
I am strongly leaning towards option 1. Is this the "normal" way of things?