American Standard Townsend 60 x 32-Inch Single Threshold Shower Base With Left-Hand Outlet - AMS-6032SM-LHOL

No drain is included with the Townsend 60 x 32 shower base. You order the drain body separately and match it to the left-hand outlet position. What does ship with it is the color matched trench drain cover, which lifts out for cleaning the channel.

The Townsend 6032SM-LHOL is the left-hand outlet version, meaning the trench drain discharges to the left side of the 60 inch run. If your rough-in drain line is stubbed to the right, this base will not land on it and you need the right-hand outlet version instead. Establish which side you are on from inside the shower before ordering, because a trench base does not give you the center-drain flexibility to shift a few inches.

Overall the Townsend base measures 65.125 x 37.563 x 5 inches, which is larger than the 60 x 32 nominal because the integral 1 inch tiling flange runs on three sides and sits behind the wall board. Frame to the actual outside dimensions, not to 60 x 32, or the flange will not tuck in.

Three-sided flange means alcove. The Townsend 6032SM has the integral tiling and water retention flange on three sides, so it is built to drop between three walls with the fourth, threshold side open. A corner install would leave one flanged side exposed with nothing to tuck it behind.

American Standard classifies the Townsend 6032SM as a residential product in its luxury line. For multi-family or hospitality work where you are matching unit to unit, that matters less than durability of the surface: the acrylic-look matte finish is repairable and renewable, so scratches and dulling can be sanded and restored rather than forcing a full base replacement. It also resists stains and impact, is fungi and bacterial resistant, and is UV resistant.

The Townsend 6032SM is a single threshold base, so the curb is molded in and you do not build one or hot-mop a liner. The 1 inch integral flange on the three wall sides acts as the water retention edge, and your backer board and tile lap over it, finishing just above the base rather than behind it.

Yes, the trench cover on the Townsend 60 x 32 base lifts out. That is the practical advantage of a linear trench over a center drain on a maintained property: hair and soap build-up sits in a channel you can open and flush instead of fishing through a strainer.