Installing baseboard quarter round trim to a laminate floor

So I've got my caulking here and I'm just going to be as careful as I can and I don't want to put too much on here. I'm just going to kind of dribble it on, you know, like that. I want to get enough, but I don't want to saturate it so much that if I want to peel this off later on, it's going to be a big nightmare to do. Okay, so about that much. Have your masking tape ready and I'm going to gently put this into place. And I've got to be careful because I don't want to get it all over. Got it right in there. I'm going to gently push it up in here. And I'm just going to put some masking tape here and hold it into place. Once that dries, I can pull the masking tape up and that's all I'm going to do. There. Now, I'm going to just continue doing that, but that way I don't have any... If I nail this, then I've got the nail holes that I have to caulk up. Plus, if I pull it out later, I'm going to have nails, heads going into here. So if you're going to do it permanently, yeah, you could do that. But even if you're going to do it permanently, this is actually a better way to do it. Then you don't have any nails to worry about. You don't have to worry about marking up your floor when you're putting the nails in with your hammer. Because you've got to get down there kind of low. And you might have a tendency to split this or maybe the nail bands. Now remember, if you do put nails in it, you have to nail it into the baseboard, not the floor. Because as you remember, this is a free-floating floor. And if this expands this direction, it can't go up against the wall. You've got these nails in here, okay? And so this whole floor has to slide back and forth underneath this quarter round. And that's why we're installing this quarter round. Because we've got that gap in there. We didn't want to cut our floor just tied up to the baseboard and call it good. Because then you don't have that gap for this to expand. This type of flooring will expand both directions. It will go this way and this way. It's just the nature of it. And so that's why in the directions you'll read 5-16ths to 3-8ths of an inch gap all around your walls, okay? So that's why I've got three quarter rounds. This might even be 5-8ths quarter round. But you've got to have something fat enough to cover up that 3-8ths gap. That actually worked out pretty good. This was pre-finished and it's almost the same color as the baseboard. You know, if I stand back and look, I can hardly tell the difference. It might be just a shade lighter, which I think it is. But not enough for it to matter. Now, like I said, if your baseboard is a different color or if it's not close at all, and if you've got to paint this, paint this first with a couple coats of paint. Then after it's all dry, then put it, then cut it and be careful with it. Put it up, glue it up there like this and it will be all nicely pre-finished like that. You know, it doesn't take very long to put some caulking on the back side of this trim, this quarter round, and put it on there. And what I'm seeing here too is because I put the little dabs on there, if I look straight down, I can see where the dabs are. One there, one there, one there, one there, one there. So if I stand here, you know, after this dries, I can pull the masking tape off. If I stand straight down and look at it, I'll see white here, white there, white there. On the back side where the caulking is. So, you know, after I pull that off, if that bothers me, I can put a thin bead of caulking on top of here. I know I told you this might be installed so that if I want to pull it off later, I can, if I want to pull the floor up. And if I do that, then I've got a thin little bead of caulking there that I've got to clean out too, which, it's probably going to be fine, you know, for me to clean that if I decide to put that. You know, it's always nice to caulk this when you get done, and it just finishes it off. Because when you have white on white like this, you can always see the crack. The crack is always going to show up black, you know. And it just doesn't look finished on your project. So, think about that and decide which way you're going to install this.