A few questions before laying tiles - Tile Advice

[widler]

Flexbone is extremely expensive for what it is .
Ditra and tile , you will be fine, your ufh will help with the drying time , most tilers have tiled onto green screeds over the years with no problems .
Or spend a nice weeks holiday money on flexbone .
Which is basically ditra with some scrim stuck on it (it’s actually not at all like ditra, ditra would be much more expensive to manufacture than flex, but is a good few £ cheaper, ps there’s also cheaper matting than ditra as well )

 

[freddyq]

Flexbone is extremely expensive for what it is .
Ditra and tile , you will be fine, your ufh will help with the drying time , most tilers have tiled onto green screeds over the years with no problems .
Or spend a nice weeks holiday money on flexbone .
Which is basically ditra with some scrim stuck on it (it’s actually not at all like ditra, ditra would be much more expensive to manufacture than flex, but is a good few £ cheaper, ps there’s also cheaper matting than ditra as well )

Thanks for this - very helpful for a complete layman! What's the cheaper matting and I suppose it will have some downsides compared to ditra?

 

[Dumbo]

Dural ci matting, no downside

 

[freddyq]

Dural ci matting, no downside

Interesting - thanks I'll look into it. If there's no downside, why is it cheaper? Is it because Ditra is German-made so more of a premium on it?
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Turns out because of the quantity I need, I can get the Ditra matting for a lower price/m2 which means it'll cost the same as the best price I can find for the Dural CI matting. Assuming they are both the same I might as well go for Ditra I suppose...

The marketing material for the Dural matting does state quite clearly that tiles can be laid as soon as the screed is hard enough to take load (i.e. not fully dried) so I like that because that's one of my main concerns..

 

[freddyq]

Is there a recommended C2 breathable adhesive to fix the Ditra matting onto my screed?