Install the ditra heat mat one day and install the electric heat wirea different day.
Ditra mat and underfloor heating.
Uncoupling waterproofing vapor management and support to ensure a long lasting installation.
If the heat mat is under the ditra then you allow the product to do it s job properly allowing the tile to heat up at a different rate to the substrate.
Schluter ditra heat is an integrated uncoupling and underfloor heating system for use under tiles and natural stone on walls and floors.
Schluter ditra heat integrates customizable comfortable electric floor warming with the functions associated with ditra.
Schlüter ditra heat is a polypropylene membrane with a cut back stud structure and an anchoring fleece laminated on the underside.
Your right but if you introduce the heat mat on top of the ditra your creating an area of greater lateral stress rendering the ditra less effective.
Schlüter ditra heat has been developed offering unique electrical underfloor heating within the uncoupling matting layer system that eradicates sticky situations measuring mistakes and self levelling and primer layers.
Floor warming ditra heat combines the flexibility of loose heating cables with the ease of installation of mat systems.
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It is a universal substrate for tile coverings which serves as an uncoupling layer bonded waterproofing and moisture vapour barrier and is designed for the attachment of the matching heating cables of the system for floor heating.
Then skim coat the wires with thinset and let that dry.
You don t need additional challenges or things going wrong.
Substrates for ditra matting.
Ditra heat combines the benefits of schluter ditra decoupling matting with easy to install electric underfloor heating cables for a system that will save you time and money when installing over problematic substrates.
Ditra matting can be used on a wide range of surfaces including concrete mortar screeds gypsum based screeds radiant heated screeds and masonry mixed substrates.