American Standard Edgemere 1.8 gpm/6.8 L/min Shower Trim Kit With Water-Saving Showerhead, Double Ceramic Pressure Balance Cartridge With Lever Handle - AMS-TU018507

No. The Edgemere TU018507 is trim only: showerhead, shower arm and flange, wall escutcheon, and metal lever handle. It's built for use with American Standard Flash shower rough-in valves, so the valve body has to be ordered separately or already be in the wall.

Pressure balance. The kit uses a double ceramic cartridge that combines a ceramic disc mixing valve with a ceramic balancing spool, so it holds output temperature steady when hot or cold supply pressure shifts, for example when a toilet flushes. If you need a set temperature dialed in independently of volume, that's a thermostatic valve, not this one.

The showerhead is rated 1.8 gpm (6.8 L/min) maximum, which American Standard states saves 28% water compared with a standard head. That 1.8 gpm figure is what green-building programs and water-restricted jurisdictions typically look for, so it suits multi-family and hospitality retrofits where a 2.5 gpm head won't pass.

Four finishes: chrome (TU018507.002), matte black (TU018507.243), legacy bronze (TU018507.278), and brushed nickel (TU018507.295). Property managers standardizing a building can order the same trim across every unit and just change the suffix to match the existing spec.

Yes. The Edgemere trim's cartridge has back-to-back capability, so hot and cold can be reversed quickly without repiping. That matters on back-to-back bathroom walls where one valve ends up mirrored.

The cartridge includes an adjustable hot limit safety stop that caps how much hot water can mix with cold, which reduces scald risk. It's set at install and can be readjusted later, so maintenance staff can dial back temperature across a property without changing the valve.

It's a shower trim kit with a single lever handle and a showerhead, no tub spout diverter included. American Standard lists the application as shower and tub, so it will serve a tub/shower opening only where the rough-in valve and a separately supplied spout handle the tub side.

The water-saving showerhead face measures 5-3/4 inches (147 mm). It ships with the shower arm and flange, so the head, arm and wall escutcheon all match the chosen finish out of one box.

No separate check valves are needed. Integrated check valves are built in to eliminate cross flow between hot and cold, which is what keeps a shower from feeding hot into the cold line on a shared riser.

The mixing valve and balancing spool are combined in a single one-piece cartridge, so a service call is one part swap rather than two. The ceramic discs are unaffected by mineral deposits and hard water, which is the usual failure point on rubber-seated valves in high-use buildings.