American Standard Edgemere Two-Piece 1.28 gpf/4.8 Lpf Chair-Height Round-Front Toilet Less Seat - AMS-204BA104

No seat is included. The Edgemere 204BA104 ships less seat, so a round-front seat has to be ordered alongside it. What does come in the carton is the tank and bowl, color-matched bowl caps, and the trip lever.

Yes, the Edgemere is stated ADA compliant and it's a chair-height bowl, 17 inches tall including the seat. Two things to weigh before you spec it for a commercial washroom: it's a round-front bowl, and American Standard classifies the Edgemere as a residential model. For public restrooms your code official will usually want an elongated bowl, so confirm the plan requirement before committing a fleet order.

Chair height puts the seating surface at about 17 inches off the floor with the seat on, versus roughly 15 inches on a standard-height bowl. It's the height most people find easiest to sit down on and get up from, which is why it's the one to pick for senior housing and accessible units. Note the 17 inches assumes a typical seat; a thicker seat raises it slightly.

1.28 gallons per flush (4.8 liters), and it's WaterSense certified, which is 20 percent below the 1.6 gpf federal maximum. That matters in California, Texas, Georgia and Colorado, where 1.28 gpf is the code minimum for new work, and it's the threshold most utility rebate programs use for retrofit incentives on multi-family.

The Edgemere is built around a 3-inch flapper flush valve and a fully glazed 2-inch trapway, which is the combination that lets a 1.28 gpf bowl clear like a 1.6. The large valve dumps the tank fast enough to build the siphon, and the glazed trap gives waste less to catch on. Where you still want to be careful is a long, flat, poorly pitched building drain, because no low-consumption toilet carries solids down a run that the drain itself isn't moving.

That's exactly what a round-front bowl is for. It projects roughly two inches less into the room than an elongated bowl, which is what makes it work in a powder room, a tight alcove, or anywhere the door swing clears the bowl by inches. If you have the floor space and the users are adults full-time, an elongated bowl is more comfortable to sit on. In small apartment baths, and anywhere you're replacing an existing round-front, this is the shape to stay with.

Three things aren't in the box. A round-front toilet seat, since this ships less seat. A wax ring or waxless seal plus closet bolts for the flange. And a supply line, typically a 3/8 inch compression to 7/8 inch ballcock connector, to reach the stop. The tank-to-bowl hardware, bowl caps and trip lever are included.

White only, ordered as MPN 204BA104.020. The bowl caps and trip lever are color matched to the china, so the finished install reads as one piece rather than a white bowl with a chrome lever. If you're standardizing a building on white fixtures, the whole assembly matches out of the box.

Vitreous china, the fired and glazed ceramic used on essentially all commercial and residential toilets. The glaze is what does the work in a rental: it's non-porous, so it doesn't absorb staining or odor, and it takes standard bathroom cleaners between tenants without dulling. The trapway is glazed too, not just the visible surfaces.

The Edgemere 204BA104 is a trade exclusive, meaning it's sold through supply channels rather than retail shelves. It sits in American Standard's Edgemere family and is positioned as a luxury-tier fixture in a residential line, which in practice means the styling is a step above builder-grade while the flush package (1.28 gpf, 3 inch valve) is standard spec. Useful to know if you're matching fixtures across a building and want a model a homeowner can't walk into a big-box store and find.