What adhesive do i need Help!!!

As beam says, BAL WP1 is a good kit, reasonably priced and will contain everything you need for the wetarea.
Mapei do an equivalent if you want to match brand with adhesive.
Or, there's Ardex WPC, which although I find quite messy, it's very very good. Infact I've just purchased 4 of them for my latest job.
 
Put a nice smear of Silicon between the tray and the wall before you start, maybe even before you tank if its a big gap. BAL every time here for a simple shower/bath area, but if wetroom I'd go with a membrane.
 
I've never used wp1 but am familiar with it. When you say tank onto the tray, do you mean with the tape and membrane or will Silicon between the tray and wall be enough?
 
You use the membrane to fix the tray to the wall, paint over the lot with the liquid, then your wall becomes part of the tray.

Silicon on top of the tiles then but just a small bead.
 
I've never used wp1 but am familiar with it. When you say tank onto the tray, do you mean with the tape and membrane or will Silicon between the tray and wall be enough?

What I do is....push tile up against the wall sitting on the tray and pencil mark a line on the tray against the tile, I use a low tack masking tape and put it up against the pencil line or just covering I made on the tray. Paint some wp1 around where the tray meets the wall and over the masking tape, fix some tape (which Bal supply with there kit) and fold onto the wall and tray, then brush another coat onto that and make sure it's pushed tight against the wall and tray, leave to dry. When your've tiled down onto the tray and adhesive has set take a very sharp knife and cut using the tile edge/face to guide you onto the tray...don't slip at this stage with the knife otherwise damage to the tray could happen....that then tanks it onto the tray.
Any questions please ask.
 
What I do is....push tile up against the wall sitting on the tray and pencil mark a line on the tray against the tile, I use a low tack masking tape and put it up against the pencil line or just covering I made on the tray. Paint some wp1 around where the tray meets the wall and over the masking tape, fix some tape (which Bal supply with there kit) and fold onto the wall and tray, then brush another coat onto that and make sure it's pushed tight against the wall and tray, leave to dry. When your've tiled down onto the tray and adhesive has set take a very sharp knife and cut using the tile edge/face to guide you onto the tray...don't slip at this stage with the knife otherwise damage to the tray could happen....that then tanks it onto the tray.
Any questions please ask.
That's bang on mate. I do the same but without the tape.
 

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