American Standard Aspirations 60 x 30-Inch Single Threshold Shower Base With Right-Hand Drain - AMS-A8019T-RHO

The Aspirations A8019T-RHO base is built for a 60 x 30 inch alcove opening, and it's a single threshold design, meaning three sides are walled and one long side is the open step-in. The base carries a 3-sided tile and water retention flange, so it's meant to tuck under the surround or tile on those three enclosed walls. If your rough opening is 60 x 32 or 60 x 36, or 48 x 36, the Aspirations line is made in those footprints too, so you'd order the matching size rather than shimming this one.

Right-hand drain. Stand facing the shower from outside the opening and the drain sits to your right, so your rough-in waste line has to land on that side. This is the one detail that gets ordered wrong most often on a replacement, because the base can't be flipped, the drain position is molded in. If your existing waste is on the left or in the center, the right-hand version won't line up and you'd either re-run the drain or order the opposite hand.

Acrylic, stain and chip-resistant, in a gloss white finish. Acrylic pans are the common choice in apartment and hotel turnovers because the surface cleans up without abrasives and chips don't telegraph the way they do on a thin-gauge fiberglass pan. The white drain cover is included in the same white, so there's no contrasting metal ring to match to your trim.

It comes with leveling feet, so the pan is set and shimmed to level on the subfloor rather than floated on a full mortar bed the way a cast or steel pan usually is. That's the main labor difference on this base: a one-person set, level the feet, connect the waste, then run the surround down over the three tile flanges. The flanges are on three sides only, matching the single threshold layout, so the open long side gets no flange.

A white drain cover is part of the base. Plan on supplying the shower drain body and the trap and tailpiece as part of the rough-in, the same as any acrylic pan, so those go on the order with the base if the bathroom is being re-plumbed. The drain opening is on the right-hand side, so size the P-trap location off that before the pan is set.

American Standard A8019T-RHO.020 is the full ordering number. The .020 suffix is American Standard's white finish code, and RHO is the right-hand drain. There's one configuration, so the only thing to get right at the order stage is the hand of the drain against your rough-in.