American Standard Studio S Bathtub Faucet With Lever Handles for Flash Rough-In Valve - AMS-T105900

Trim only. The Studio S T105900 tub faucet is the finished spout and lever handles that mount over an American Standard Flash rough-in valve, which is a separate purchase. If you are roughing in new construction or a full gut, order the Flash valve body with it. If you are only changing the look on an opening that already has a Flash valve behind the wall, the trim alone is what you need.

There is 1 inch of extra installation adjustability built into the trim kit for the finished deck, so a rough-in that came in slightly off still lands. Beyond that inch you are moving the valve. On remodels where the deck thickness changed after the rough went in, that inch is usually what saves the job.

No. This trim is built for the American Standard Flash rough-in platform and mounts to that valve body. Another manufacturer's cartridge stem and mounting pattern will not take it. If the wall has a competitor's valve and you want Studio S styling, the valve body has to be replaced with a Flash rough at the same time.

Four: polished chrome (T105900.002), matte black (T105900.243), brushed nickel (T105900.295), and Brushed Cool Sunrise (T105900.GN0). Chrome and brushed nickel are the two that match most existing multifamily washroom packages; matte black and Brushed Cool Sunrise are the design-forward options. If you are standardizing a building, order by the suffix, not the finish name, since the suffix is what the manufacturer keys the part to.

Both metal. The spout is metal and the lever handles are metal, not plated plastic. For rental turns and hospitality where a tub faucet gets grabbed with wet hands and cleaned with whatever is on the cart, that is the part of the spec that decides how it looks in year five.

They are lever handles, which is the style specified when a fixture has to be operated without grasping or twisting, and they run on 1/4 turn ceramic disc cartridges so the throw from off to full is a quarter turn. That is the operating characteristic accessibility reviewers look at on a tub filler. Knob handles are the ones that get rejected.

The Studio S trim uses washerless ceramic disc cartridges rather than rubber washers, so there is no compression seat to wear out and reseat. Washer-type tub valves are the ones that generate the repeat drip calls. Worth noting the cartridges live in the trim side of a Flash system, so a portfolio running Flash valves can swap cartridges without opening the wall.

It is a bathtub faucet, spout and handles for filling a tub. If the opening is a tub and shower combination you need the diverter and shower outlet handled at the valve and a separate showerhead trim; this part covers the tub side.