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We tend to have click flooring with spongy underlay rather than a permanently tiled solution. Underlay would sink with heavy cabinets permanently fitted.
All I did was fit my flooring in the appliance apertures. It was only the fridge and dishwasher in my case.
Grumpy_Git-
BOOM, great insight, and yeah, imagine you are right as Euros tend to go for cooling natural tiles due to higher temps.
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This is what we're doing - floating engineered wood floor over sponge roll with the gold foil. Everywhere online (including the flooring shop) says lay up to the kitchen, not under. Though some of the reasons seem to be because the weight of the kitchen would stop the floor from being able to expand/contract properly.
Think we're just going to have to find our own kitchen fitter that's a bit more open to what we need. Sigh.
Maybe we can just cut a square of standard ply out for under the dishwasher as it's the only fitted appliance - fridge will be free standing (we'll have to put the flooring into it's space), washing machine is in a different room.
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We have laminate with a bonded underlay backer on each piece. The underlay is only maybe 2.5 mm thick.
I have not seen any sign of it compacting under load.
Much better than the roll form of foam underlay.
chrisbmx116
Lw.
davidual
Its a very British thing to not have a full floor in Kitchens, not sure why, think the Euros tend to tile the whole place before fitting a kitchen just incase anything ever changes.