It was awesome actually I did just lay it out and it's pretty damn tacky. I had rubber gloves on and just smoothed it and worked it with my finger just after I laid it out. I laid it out a section at a time and it was pretty quick to set up as well. You don't have more than 4 or 5 minutes to play with it... But again that's why I did it a section at a time. I'm well impressed with it so far..