American Standard Cadet PRO Two-Piece 1.6 gpf/6.0 Lpf Standard Height Round Front Toilet Less Seat - AMS-215DA004

A 12-inch rough-in, measured from the finished wall to the center of the closet flange bolts. That is the standard rough-in on most residential construction, so it drops onto an existing 12-inch waste line without moving the flange. If your flange measures 10 or 14 inches to the wall, this bowl will not sit right and you need a bowl built for that rough-in.

No seat. The 215DA004 is a less-seat model, so the bowl and tank ship without one and the seat is a separate order. Buy a round front seat, not elongated, or it will overhang the bowl. Bowl caps and the trip lever are included and color matched.

Standard height. The rim sits at the traditional bowl height rather than the taller chair height, which is what most people want in a kids' bathroom or where they are matching the height of the other toilets already in the building. If you are after the taller seating position for accessibility or for older tenants, you want a right height or comfort height bowl instead, not this one.

1.6 gallons per flush, 6.0 litres, and it is WaterSense certified, which American Standard states means it uses 20 percent less water than a regular toilet while performing as well or better. The PowerWash rim directs water around the bowl on each flush to scrub it. Note that 1.6 gpf is not a high efficiency toilet: if your jurisdiction or your green building spec requires 1.28 gpf, this model does not meet it.

Plan on a round front toilet seat, a wax ring or waxless seal, closet bolts, and a supply line, since none of those come with a less-seat two-piece bowl. The trip lever and fill valve are already fitted, both with metal parts rather than plastic, and the tank to bowl hardware comes with the fixture. It is a two-piece, so the tank and bowl assemble on site, which also means you can replace a cracked tank later without pulling the whole fixture.

Round front, which is what the Cadet PRO 215DA004 is. A round bowl projects roughly two inches less from the wall than an elongated one, which is what makes it work in a powder room, a half bath under a stair, or a tight rental bathroom where the door swing clips the bowl. Elongated is more comfortable to sit on and is the usual choice where floor space allows. If you are standardizing a building on one bowl shape, remember the seat has to match: round seats do not fit elongated bowls.

Three colors, and the color is carried in the suffix on the part number: White is 215DA004.020, Bone is 215DA004.021, and Linen is 215DA004.222. The bowl caps and trip lever are color matched to whichever you pick. If you are replacing one fixture in a bathroom that already has a matching lav or tub, order by that suffix rather than by the color name on a paint chip.

The 215DA004 uses the trade exclusive Cadet PRO tank, which is the version sold through the trade channel rather than the retail one. Order the bowl and tank as this model together. If you are stocking spares for a portfolio of units, keep the full model number on the sheet, because a Cadet tank from the retail line is not the same tank.

American Standard classes the Cadet PRO 215DA004 as a residential fixture, and it is built from vitreous china with a metal trip lever and a metal shank fill valve rather than plastic ones, which are the two parts that get broken first in a unit turnover. That makes it a reasonable standardization choice across apartments and single family rentals. For high-traffic commercial washrooms, a flushometer bowl is the usual specification instead of a tank type toilet.