No need for the steel lath in your mud unless your floor is larger than about 25 square feet or so. Smaller than that – don’t worry about it.

I would use thinset to adhere it to the substrate. Noble is fairly vague on this point, but I do know you don’t wanna use construction adhesive – it melts them.

I don’t wanna talk about it, either.

I’m using Noble Pro-Slope for my preslope. Should I glue it to the floor or what?

Then I’m using Noble Chloraloy for the waterproof membrane, then a mud layer over that. Should I put some steel lath reinforcing in the top mud layer?

Thanks for your help!

Don

You can mix up some thinset a little runnier and skim over the top with the flat side of your trowel to lock all the loose sand. It’s supposed to be sandy, that’s completely normal. As cement (in the thinset) cures it grows little crystal ‘fingers’ which lock into whatever substrate it’s installed upon. This locks the thinset into the substrate as well as the back of the tile. It will adhere just fine. Not only does the cement in the thinset do this, the cement in the deck mud continues to do this as well (mostly in the first 28 days) so they essentially lock together with a crystal matrix.

Didn’t know tile had any connection to Star Wars, did ‘ya?