Caroma Toilets

I have sold and installed almost 30 Caravels or Tasmen in the past 1 1/2 years. All have been the 270 series. Everyone that has purchased 1 loves them and many have called me back to replace the others in the home after trying 1.
Opinions wanted.

Do any of you recomend another brand over the Caromas.

I sell the Caroma too.

I prefer the Toto.
They also make a dual flush toilet called the Aquia.
It uses the same flush valve that you find in the Caroma Caravelle one-piece.
My price in the Seattle area is $295 which is less money than I sell the Caroma for.
Performance is better too.

Does the Toto make a model with a 4" trapway I didn't see any on the link but not all the discriptions gave the trapway size. The other selling feature that normaly closes the sale on the 270s, besides the 4" trapway, is when I tell them that it will never leak out on to the floor or under the lnio or rot the floor away. My installed price on the Tasman is $395.00 and the Caravell /installed is $495.00.

There are a few people I've sold to with a medical condition that the size of the trapway "would" make a difference.

Most plumbing is 3" in new homes.
The Caroma still uses a seal at the flange like ever other toilet.
I normally use wax for that seal.

The Caroma is a good toilet, it's just that given a choice, a lot more are going with Toto.

If you're doing a good job selling them, you should keep the motor running.

Terry said:

The Caroma still uses a seal at the flange like ever other toilet.
I normally use wax for that seal.

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Yes but the horn set up they have allows the toilet or floor to move with out affecting the wax ring, the neoprene sleeve moving instead. I love the engineering. Oh Yes !!! The only draw back I can see, but no one has complained yet, is the small water spot. I had one customer tell me he canceled his trash pick up, because it flushed everything he could put in it.

I have a brother-inlaw that works for the Utility department.

He's going to love that. Already they have to send men down into the pump stations and repair sewage pumps because of the things that people put down their toilets.

I guess your customer is going to give them more overtime hours on the job.
Not the nicest work either. Going into a sewer pit to unjam a pump impeller.

The small water spot is the biggest complaint I get with those.

That and they are very long for a round bowl toilet.
The Aquia is 27-1/4" long and it's elongated.
The round bowl Caroma is 28-1/4".
A typical round bowl is 26-1/2" long.

I think most plumbers set their toilets pretty tight to the floor.
It's not going to move anyway when it's done right.
Nobody expects the seal to leak.