American Standard Colony PRO Tub and Shower Trim Kit Less Showerhead, Double Ceramic Pressure Balance Cartridge With Lever Handle - AMS-TU075508XH

No. TU075508XH is trim only, meant for use with American Standard Flash shower rough-in valves. You get the shower arm and flange, the wall escutcheon with red/blue indicators, the metal lever handle, and a slip-on diverter tub spout. The valve body has to be ordered separately, so on new construction the rough-in goes in at framing and this trim goes on after the wall is finished.

Showerhead is deliberately left out of the TU075508XH kit. Contractors and property managers buy it this way when they are standardizing on a specific head, a water-saving flow rate, or a vandal-resistant unit across a building. The shower arm and flange are in the box, so all you add is the head itself.

It is pressure balance, not thermostatic. The double ceramic cartridge combines a ceramic disc mixing valve with a ceramic balancing spool that holds output temperature steady when hot or cold supply pressure changes, which is what keeps a shower from going cold when a toilet flushes. There is also an adjustable hot limit safety stop that caps how much hot water can mix in, which is the setting you adjust at install to reduce scald risk in apartments, hotels, or dorms.

Not as supplied. The kit includes a slip-on diverter tub spout, and the diverter in that spout is how flow is sent up to the showerhead. For a shower-only stall you want a shower-only trim kit instead. Application for TU075508XH is shower and tub.

The Colony PRO kit ships with a slip-on diverter spout, which mounts over a 1/2 inch copper stub-out and seals with a set screw rather than threading onto a nipple. If the wall currently has a threaded galvanized or brass nipple, a slip-on spout will not attach to it, and you need a threaded spout or a nipple-to-copper adapter. Check what is sticking out of the wall before you open the box.

Yes. The Colony PRO cartridge has back-to-back capability, so hot and cold can be reversed quickly at the cartridge. That matters on back-to-back bathroom plumbing in multi-family and hotel work where one of the pair ends up with swapped supplies. The escutcheon carries red and blue indicators so the handle still reads correctly after the swap.

That is the point of it. Mixing valve and balancing spool are combined into a single cartridge, so a service call is one part swap rather than sorting through separate components. The ceramic material is unaffected by mineral deposits and hard water, which is why it holds up in buildings with aggressive water. Integrated check valves are built in to stop cross flow between hot and cold.

This kit comes with a metal lever handle. Levers are the type facility buyers ask for on accessible units because they can be operated without gripping or twisting the wrist, unlike a round knob. Metal rather than plastic also stands up better to rental and public restroom traffic.