Install plywood in remaining area to exact height of tile floor to finish cabinet install.
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.
I prefer to install cabinets on the floated mortar including toe skins then have the tile installed.
Sometimes the decision of whether to install the cabinets or the floors first depends on other factors.
Those are all good reasons to lay a kitchen floor after the cabinets are in.
On wood floors install cabinets on top of wood.
That way the finished skins are buried in the tile and grout and it is harder for water from mopping to get into and ruin them.
In most cases given standard flooring heights you will install the cabinets before the floor covering.
Tile or linoleum on the other hand can run all the way to the wall with no problems.
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.
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.