American Standard Town Square S Freestanding Bathtub Faucet With Lever Handle for Flash Rough-In Valve - AMS-T455951

No. The Town Square S freestanding bathtub faucet is the trim and spout only, and it installs onto American Standard's Flash Rough valve platform. The floor rough has to be ordered separately and set before the slab or subfloor is closed in. If you buy T455951 by itself you will have a finished tower with nothing under the floor to connect it to, so the rough goes on the order at the same time.

Double check valves are built into the T455951. Because a handheld on a hose can be dropped into standing bathwater, the hose end is a cross-connection risk and inspectors look for backflow protection on exactly this configuration. The check valves are integral to the faucet, so there is no separate device to buy or find room for.

Maximum flow is 1.8 gpm (6.8 L/min). That is the number to put on a submittal where a project is chasing a low-flow or water-conservation target, and it applies to the personal shower on the metal hose. For a tub fill on a large soaker, understand what 1.8 gpm means in practice: fill time is longer than an unrestricted filler, which matters more in hospitality than in a single residence.

It does. A metal single function personal shower is included, on a 59 inch metal hose, with an easy to clean spray face. The cradle pivots 60 degrees so the spray can be aimed for rinsing the tub down or for a seated user. Nothing else needs to be ordered to get handheld function out of it.

Six: chrome (T455951.002), polished nickel (.013), matte black (.243), legacy bronze (.278), brushed nickel (.295), and brushed cool sunrise (.GN0). Order by the suffix, not by the finish name, because bronze and nickel names run together across American Standard's lines. If you are matching a lav faucet and shower trim on the same bathroom, specify the same suffix across all three.

The body is brass, and the mixing is done by a 40mm washerless ceramic disc cartridge on a quarter turn. Ceramic disc is what keeps a single lever from developing a drip after a year of hard use, and there are no rubber washers to replace on a service call. For a property manager standardizing across units, the single lever plus ceramic disc is the combination that keeps maintenance tickets down.

A freestanding filler like the Town Square S is the answer when the tub sits away from any wall and has no deck to drill, which is the usual case with a modern soaker. The trade is that it commits you early: the Flash rough has to be located and set in the floor before the finished floor goes down, and moving it later means opening the slab. If the tub has a deck or sits against a wall, a deck or wall mount filler is the cheaper install because the rough is easier to reach and easier to correct.

One lever handle does the mixing, on a quarter turn ceramic cartridge. The faucet carries a single function personal shower on a 59 inch hose, so diverting between tub spout and handheld is the only other control on the tower. Buyers used to two-handle fillers should know this is a single lever tower, not hot and cold cross handles.