American Standard Northport One-Handle Pull-Down Kitchen Faucet With Soap Dispenser - AMS-7035300

Both. The Northport mounts as a single-hole faucet, and a matching deck plate is included so it can cover a 3-hole sink or countertop punch instead. With the soap dispenser that ships with it, a 3-hole deck gets used up cleanly: faucet in one hole, dispenser in another. Nothing extra has to be ordered to cover the spare hole.

Yes, the Northport is ADA compliant, and it uses a single metal lever handle, which is the operation type that satisfies the no-tight-grasping, no-twisting requirement. That makes it usable in accessible units and common-area kitchens where lever operation is spelled out on the drawings.

Matte black, ordered as 7035300.243. The finish is a wipe-clean type that resists scratching, tarnish and corrosion, which matters on matte black more than most, since that is the finish tenants are quickest to mark up with cleaners. There is one finish on the Northport with soap dispenser, so if you are matching a building standard to an existing brushed or chrome faucet, this is not the one.

Flow is 1.8 GPM. That is under the 2.2 GPM federal maximum for kitchen faucets and meets the 1.8 GPM threshold that California and several other jurisdictions apply to new kitchen faucet installs, so it clears low-flow specs on most public and institutional jobs.

The spray head gives three modes: stream, spray, and pause. The pause is the one that earns its keep in a kitchen, since it holds water at the head while you move a pot. Retraction is handled by American Standard's Re-Trax, which pulls the head back into the spout and keeps it seated rather than letting it hang low over time, the usual failure on pull-downs in high-use rental kitchens.

The valve is a ceramic disc cartridge, which is the type that resists the drip-and-callback cycle that washer and compression valves produce. The handle and spout are metal rather than plastic, so the two parts that get grabbed and leaned on are the ones built solid. For a property manager standardizing across units, those two things, ceramic disc and metal handle and spout, are the ones that decide how many service calls the faucet generates.

No. The soap dispenser is included and finished to match, so the deck set arrives as one piece of ordering rather than two. Buying a Northport faucet without the dispenser is a different model, so if the dispenser is on the plan, the 7035300 is the number to put on the purchase order.