American Standard Cambridge Americast 60 x 32-Inch Integral Apron Bathtub With Left-Hand Outlet - AMS-2460002

Stand at the open side of the alcove facing the tub. On the Cambridge left-hand model, the drain and overflow are at your left end, so the rough-in waste has to come up on that side. Order the right-hand version if your existing waste line is at the other end. Getting this backwards is the single most common return on an alcove tub, because the apron is integral and the tub cannot be flipped end for end.

The Cambridge is ADA compliant when a seat is installed at the head end. The seat is what makes the transfer geometry work, so if the job is being inspected against accessibility requirements, the seat has to be part of the install, not an option you skip.

Americast is American Standard's layered construction with a glossy porcelain surface over it. For property managers the practical difference from acrylic is the porcelain face, which cleans like a cast iron tub rather than scratching and dulling like plastic, and the difference from bare enameled steel is that Americast is not a thin stamped shell. The finished surface is a brighter white textured white that stays cleaner longer.

The Cambridge has a full slip-resistant surface covering 56 percent more of the tub floor than the partial textured pads found on many tubs, so the traction runs across the walking area rather than a small patch under the shower head. For hospitality and multi-family work that is usually the deciding spec, and it means no aftermarket mat in the unit.

White is the only finish offered, under manufacturer number 2460002.02. If you are standardizing a building, that single-color offering is actually the useful part: every unit matches, and the reorder is one number.