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I've got the first stripe of thinset down and I want to show it to you and it'll all make sense
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Take a look. So here you can see the thinsets down. It's about a little about two feet wide
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a two foot wide strip. And you can see the lines in the thinset, you know, they kind of looks like
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a plowed field. You know, it's parallel with a long 12 foot wall. And that's because as you can
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see in the mat here, the lines. There's the heating cables. So now my job is to take this
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edge of the mat, the entire mat, drop it against and right next to that little plywood strip
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Now remember, that plywood strip that you see is higher than the subfloor. That's why
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it doesn't have any thinset on top of it. And you'll figure out why I put that there
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in an upcoming video but don worry about that right now You see why I got that So now let put the mat down and then we going to have to smooth the mat with another rubber float tool I got about half the mat down
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half the thinset spread, and I want to show you the tool that I use to flatten
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the mat into the thinset. Take a look. This is just a rubber float that you use
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to grout with. Works really really well. You just take it, you know, and pat down
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the mat and smooth it like you would grout making sure that there are no air bubbles or no humps in
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the mat and that it's fully contacted you know with a thin set it's really that simple caveman
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