Install cabinets before or after laying hardwood?

I’m installing cabinets before hardwood floor.

1) reduce costs of flooring. No sense in paying for something you won’t see.
2) cabinets will be easier to install on flat subfloor

But I will run flooring under dishwasher

I'm on the after list. If one installs it before, that flooring will not have a finish coat. That leaves a very good chance of that wood to pick up moisture over time. If that happens, that flooring will buckle and will buckle the flooring out that is finished.

after...2 reasons. Easier to finish with them out of the way and also the time you save by not having to cut and fit floor around them makes it quicker.

You can do the areas under the cabinets with smaller scraps to safe money or not fully cover the area but just cover the outline of the cabinets.

I did the same with tile. Just made sure the edges were supporting the cabinets. Under the stove and fridge I used all the off cuts or chipped tiles.

After. If you ever have to pull up those hardwood floors for any reason, it’ll be a lot easier if the flooring wasn’t run under the cabinets too.

Definitely install cabinets before flooring. I just had to rip up and replace a good section of hardwood in my kitchen due to a icemaker leak. If those floors had been run under my cabinets, and they buckled there, this fix would have been a LOT more painful.

Before and set the cabinets according to finished floor height. That way when the flooring and trim are done you dont see shims or blocks.

If you will have shoe molding, then you install baseboards before flooring and put shoe molding down after floors.

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If you will have shoe molding, then you install baseboards before flooring and put shoe molding down after floors.

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It’ll be installed unfinished. So my understanding there is to wait on baseboard.

If you are doing it right, install hardwoods first. In the future if you have a remodel, it could be difficult to match.

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In the future if you have a remodel, it could be difficult to match

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I'm sorry but I have to Lol at this. You don't do something in a new kitchen to prepare for a remodel. If you have a plan to expand due to finances maybe. But the chances of someone remodeling a freshly done kitchen themselves is probably less than 5%. Very few people are living in a house for 25 years and very few people that do will remodel.

Your installer charges by the sq ft for a reason. It's harder to do more sq ft than less sq ft when you are good. Cutting pine takes zero time almost unlike tile.