American Standard Colony PRO Valve Only Trim Kit With Double Ceramic Pressure Balance Cartridge With Lever Handle - AMS-TU075500

No. TU075500 is a valve-only trim kit, so you get the escutcheon, metal lever handle and the double ceramic pressure balance cartridge, but no valve body. It is made for use with American Standard Flash shower rough-in valves, which you order separately. If the rough-in is already in the wall from a previous Flash install, the trim kit alone finishes the job.

Pressure balance. The cartridge combines a ceramic disc mixing valve with a ceramic balancing spool in one piece, so it holds output temperature steady when hot or cold supply pressure changes, for example when a toilet is flushed elsewhere in the building. It does not set a numeric target temperature the way a thermostatic valve does. For a tub and shower, note this is valve-only trim with no diverter or tub spout control.

Three: polished chrome (TU075500.002), brushed nickel (TU075500.295) and matte black (TU075500.243). For multi-unit work where you are standardizing bathrooms, chrome and brushed nickel are the usual matches to existing Colony PRO fixtures; matte black is the newer option.

Yes. The Colony PRO TU075500 cartridge has back-to-back capability, so hot and cold can be reversed quickly during installation. That matters on apartment and hotel layouts where two bathrooms share a wall and one shower ends up plumbed with the supplies flipped.

Yes. The TU075500 trim has an adjustable hot limit safety stop that caps how much hot water mixes with cold, set at the cartridge during installation. Facilities people in healthcare, senior housing and hospitality usually set this at commissioning. The Comfort Zone range also gives a wider band of handle travel within the useful temperature zone, so small handle moves make finer adjustments.

Not for cross flow at the valve. Check valves are integrated into the cartridge to eliminate crossover between the hot and cold supplies, which is the usual cause of a complaint about lukewarm water at other fixtures. Any additional backflow protection is a matter for your local code, not the trim.

Metal. The TU075500 kit ships with a metal lever handle, which is what you want on rental and institutional bathrooms where plastic handles crack and get pulled off. The lever shape is also easier to operate with a closed fist or forearm than a round knob.

The pressure balance cartridge is a single one-piece unit, so a service call means pulling and swapping one part rather than separate mixing and balancing components. Ceramic is unaffected by mineral deposits and hard water, which is the usual failure mode on older brass spool cartridges. The trim kit is manufactured in Mexico.