 Honestly, my favorite thing about the PLN stick is the fact that it cuts out an entire step of leap and not having to mix the thinset, not having to cart it back and forth and do all that work and the clean up of it, I love it. Agreed. It's not messy. You're not waiting for the thinset to dry. It's down. You're ready to grab your cable, run all your cable through there, get it tested.