Flooring or sheetrock, which go first?

[FakeName]

If flooring goes first, I'll be unable to "cove" the flooring up the side of the sheetrock (if I use a professionally applied polyaspartic). If I use tile, I'd be tempted to put the floor down first to avoid a low gap around the wall that could hold liquids. But the prep for either floor will be easier without sheetrock.

What do you think?



Yes I know the following, so lecture not about:
I could use OSB
I could use VCT
Tile might crack
I could use epoxy
I could use cove base molding
I can use cement backer board for the bottom 4" of sheetrock

 

[JakeKohl]

sheetrock, mud, and the ensuing paint is messy. I would do the flooring later. Besides, if you can avoid it, you don't want the sheetrock all the way to the floor from a liquids perspective.

I'm not sure what you mean by "cove" but if you want something like epoxy up the wall a bit, you can go ahead and do that part so the sheetrock lays over it....but I would wait to do the floor last. If you are doing tile, you can stand up tile at the edge of the floor to provide a waterproof basin...and then you need concrete, or concrete board, to attach that to.

 

[FakeName]

Yeah, I see your point.

If I do tile, I could/must protect the floor during the rest of the project. If I do the poly with a cove, the sheetrock will have to hit the slab and go in first.

Hmmm