matt

I appreciate the reply. I see your point about building up a mud surface to apply the thin set on. The interior will be Pebble-Tec, and I believe that's a 1/2 inch. Could I just simply put 1/4 thin set, and attach the 1/4 inch tile? The decking surrounding the pool will most likely be concrete slab, and I figured I'd add the tile after it is poured which will give me a better reference to work from. Does that sound correct? Thanks again!

When it comes to installing tile on the water line after the gunite/shotcrete phase of pool construction, is the tile installed just like bathroom tile over the gunite/shotcrete surface? I'm interested in doing this phase of the construction myself, since I've tiled bathrooms before and it seem easy enough.