Shower Waterproofing

Hello:

I have watched many of your videos. Spend over 2 days watching various videos to be honest. I saw you transition from using Ardex 8+9 to Hydro Ban Cementitious water proofing, then from that to the Hydro Ban quick cure.

I went to Laticrete's website to read up on these products and see which one would be best. The issue that I am having is that they basically all say then do/accomplish the same thing. There is Hydro Ban XP, Hydro Barrier and Barrier Plus, Latapoxy waterproof flashing Mortar, Hydro Ban Cementitious, Hydro Ban Quick Cure, 9235 Waterproofing Membrane, and good old regular Hydro Ban.

Perhaps I am just an idiot and total overlooked the areas of their PDF documents that explained the unique benifits of each give specifics areas or environments of use.

I have figured out that I can use the Schluter all-set that I have to set the tile directly over this liquid applied membrane once it is down.

To give some background I have a 5.5' k-1229 tub with a knee wall at the head. I secured it to the studs using brass screws and then poured a mortar bed around the entire base for extra support. Once installed to the studs I shimmed the studs with a 1/4" plywood furring strip. Then place my 1/2" hardiebacker board over the tub flange/lip but 1/4" from the tub rim as the installation instructions for the tubs said.

I have additional questions about the various testing you did on the modified polymer sealants/adhesives but will ask in a separate post because I am not sure asking everything at one time in one long post is acceptable and I am new to this type of forum.

Thank You,

Jillian

P.S. I can provide the layouts I drew to show the profiles as well as pictures of where I am sitting now on the project.

P.S.s. I originally paid for a contractor to install the 6' roll of KERDI membrane onto the walls. I then went into the hospital last January for 3-1/2 weeks and spent 4 months trying to recover. I recently went back to the renovation site and inspected all the work that had been done and ended up not having him come back to complete the job but also ripped the membrane off the walls and used my angle grinder to grind of the thin set he had used in his attempt to install it. I do have additional membrane as a bought a large roll and could do it myself again however, I have 3 other walk in showers that still need to be waterproofed using KERDI angled shower base pan with KERDI linear drain that I believe would benifit more using that product so I am instead planning to use the liquid waterproofing membrane (hence my questions above) in its place as this is only a tub surround. There will be a glass wall enclosing the knee wall end using one of Schluter's channels for that.