Abstract: A floor laying tool utilized in installing synthetic floor materials such as vinyl sheet flooring adjacent walls. This floor laying tool is used to lay vinyl type flooring materials on a subfloor. The tool includes a handle, a downwardly projecting shaft connected to one end of the handle, and a working plate portion. The lower end of the downwardly projecting shaft is connected to the top of the tool's working plate portion. The tool's working plate portion is generally in the shape of a triangle with rounded corners. The first corner is connected to the downwardly projecting end of the shaft with the other two corners positioned equidistant from the first corner. The plate portion and rounded corners are utilized to bond the vinyl to the subfloor along the edges of a baseboard.