American Standard Cadet PRO Two-Piece 1.28 gpf/4.8 Lpf Standard Height Elongated Toilet Less Seat - AMS-215CA104

Standard height. The seat sits lower than the chair-height or comfort-height bowls American Standard sells alongside it, which is what most people are used to in a home and what fits a household with kids. If you need the taller seating position for an aging-in-place unit or an accessible bathroom, this is the wrong bowl in the family and you want a right-height Cadet instead.

No seat. The 215CA104 ships as a bowl and tank only, so you need to order an elongated seat separately. The bowl is elongated, so a round-front seat will not fit it. What does come in the carton is the color-matched bowl caps and the trip lever, so you are not chasing trim pieces separately.

1.28 gallons per flush (4.8 liters), and it is WaterSense certified, which is a 20 percent reduction against the 1.6 gpf federal baseline. That matters in two places: jurisdictions like California and Texas that require 1.28 gpf or lower on new installs and replacements, and utility rebate programs that pay out only on WaterSense-listed fixtures. If you are swapping out old 3.5 gpf tanks across a portfolio, this is the class of fixture those programs are written for.

Three things beyond the toilet itself. An elongated seat, since none is included. A wax ring or waxless seal plus closet bolts for the flange. And a supply line with a shutoff if you're not reusing the existing one. The trip lever and the color-matched bowl caps are already in the box, and it's a two-piece, so the tank and bowl bolt together on site rather than arriving as one heavy unit.

Elongated. An elongated bowl runs roughly two inches longer front to back than a round front, so in a tight powder room or a half bath with a swing door you can lose clearance in front of the bowl. If the existing toilet is round front and the space in front of it is already snug, measure from the flange to the door or the opposite fixture before committing to the elongated Cadet PRO.

Three: White (215CA104.020), Bone (215CA104.021), and Linen (215CA104.222). The bowl caps and trip lever are color-matched to the china, so a Bone or Linen bowl doesn't end up wearing white trim. If you are matching a lavatory or a tub already in the room, order by that suffix, since Bone and Linen read differently against each other and against white.

The PRO carries the trade exclusive tank and swaps plastic for metal at the two parts that fail first in service: a metal trip lever instead of a plastic one, and a fill valve with a metal shank rather than a plastic shank at the tank penetration. For a property manager or maintenance crew turning units, those are the two callbacks you stop getting. The flush performance is the same 1.28 gpf with the PowerWash rim scrubbing the bowl on every flush.

That's the use it's built around. Vitreous china body, a metal trip lever and metal shank fill valve rather than plastic, and the PowerWash rim that scrubs the bowl on each flush so units getting infrequent cleaning stay presentable. It's a residential-rated fixture, so for a high-traffic public restroom you want a commercial flushometer bowl instead, not a tank type. Across a building, standardizing on one model also means one set of flappers and fill valves on the parts shelf.

The Cadet PRO 215CA104 is two-piece: tank and bowl ship separately and bolt together during install. For a rental turn or a walk-up, that's the easier path. Each piece is manageable for one person on a stairwell, and if a tank cracks you replace the tank instead of the whole fixture. A one-piece has a smoother profile with no tank-to-bowl seam to clean, which is why it wins in an owner-occupied remodel, but it's a single heavy carry and a total loss if either half breaks.