American Standard Delancey Valve Only Trim Kit With Lever Handle - AMS-TU052500

Trim only. The TU052500 Delancey kit is valve only trim, which means the lever handle, escutcheon and mounting hardware that go on the finished wall. The pressure balance valve body that gets soldered or connected into the supply lines behind the wall is a separate rough-in purchase. On a new install you order both; on a remodel where the existing American Standard valve body is staying in the wall, the trim kit alone is what you need.

Valve only. There is no diverter in the TU052500 trim, so it controls a single outlet, one shower head or one spout, not both. If the opening needs to switch between a tub spout and a shower head, a valve only trim is the wrong part and you want a tub and shower trim with an integral diverter or a separate diverter valve and trim.

Yes, that is called out directly. The cartridge behind this Delancey trim has back-to-back capability, so hot and cold can be reversed quickly and easily during install. That matters in multi-family and hotel work where two bathrooms share a wall and one riser feeds both, which normally leaves one shower plumbed with the supplies swapped.

There is an adjustable hot limit safety stop in the cartridge, which caps how much hot water is allowed to mix with the cold and cuts the risk of accidental scalding. It is a field adjustment made at the cartridge, so the setting is dialed in on site rather than fixed at the factory. For assisted living, childcare and other facilities where a temperature ceiling is required, this is the feature that gets set at commissioning.

Four finishes on the Delancey lever handle valve trim: chrome (TU052500.002), polished nickel (TU052500.013), brushed nickel (TU052500.295), and brushed cool sunrise (TU052500.GN0). Property managers standardizing a building should note the suffix is what identifies the finish on the order, so the same trim across twenty units is one base number with one suffix.

No separate check valves are needed. The cartridge has integrated check valves to eliminate cross flow, so hot does not migrate into the cold line and vice versa. That is one less fitting to source on a rough-in and one less thing that can be omitted in the field.

The Delancey trim runs on a double ceramic pressure balance cartridge, which combines a ceramic disc mixing valve with a ceramic balancing spool. The spool holds a constant output temperature when relative hot and cold supply pressures change, which is exactly what happens when a toilet flushes or a laundry draws on the same line. The ceramic parts are unaffected by mineral deposits and hard water, so the balancing does not degrade in the buildings where pressure swings are worst.

It is a one-piece cartridge, so the mixing valve and balancing spool come out and go back in as a single unit rather than as a stack of separate parts. For an MRO or property maintenance tech that means a service call is pulling the handle and escutcheon, swapping one cartridge, and reassembling. The ceramic disc design is what keeps the handle turning smoothly and the valve from dripping in the first place.

Lever. The TU052500 kit ships with a single lever handle, which is the handle style most facilities specify because it operates with a closed fist or a forearm rather than a grip and twist. If the rest of the units are on cross or knob handles and you are trying to match, this will not visually match them.

American Standard calls the range Comfort Zone on this Delancey valve trim, a wider band of handle travel spread across the usable temperature range so small handle movements make small temperature changes. In practice it means a tenant can land on a comfortable setting instead of hunting between too cool and too hot.