Delaney 3-3/4" Spring Door Stop

Overall length is 3-3/4 inches, so that is the amount of standoff you get between the baseboard or wall and the door face. If the door swings past a piece of trim, a thermostat, or a light switch that sits more than 3-3/4 inches out, a spring stop this length will not catch the door before it hits. Measure from the wall surface to the closest obstruction first.

A spring stop like the Delaney 3-3/4 inch flexes as the door hits it, which is the usual choice for residential and light commercial openings where the concern is protecting the wall. A rigid wall bumper takes the hit on a rubber pad with no give and is what gets specified where the door gets slammed constantly. For that, the Ives WS11 and the Ives WS33/WS33X are both heavy duty wall stops with replaceable rubber bumpers, and the replaceable bumper matters when you are maintaining a building and want to swap a worn pad instead of the whole stop.

You need a longer stop than the Delaney, which is fixed at 3-3/4 inches overall. The ABH RM Series and ABH RMS Series wall door stops are both offered in multiple lengths, so those are where to go when the baseboard, chair rail, or wainscot pushes the contact point further off the wall than a fixed-length spring stop can reach.

A spring door stop cushions the door at the wall and lets it swing back; it does not hold. For hold open, the Ives WS20 is a manual wall holder with a hinged strike for drywall and masonry applications, and the Ives WS40 is an automatic wall holder with a heavy duty bumper pad. The WS20 requires someone to engage the hinged strike at the door; the WS40 catches automatically when the door reaches it. Both mount a strike on the door leaf in addition to the wall unit, which the Delaney does not.

The Delaney 3-3/4 inch spring door stop is a spring type wall stop on a zinc base metal, 3-3/4 inches overall. Where a rigid heavy duty wall stop is wanted instead, the Ives WS11 is a heavy duty wall stop with a replaceable rubber bumper made for drywall and masonry, and the Ives WS33/WS33X is a heavy-duty wall door stop that also takes a replaceable rubber bumper. The practical difference is the bumper: the Ives units are built so the strike face can be swapped out when it wears, while the Delaney is a sprung stop that flexes on contact.

The Delaney spring door stop is a single 3-3/4 inch overall length. When the wall projection has to be longer or shorter to meet the door, the ABH RM Series wall door stops and the ABH RMS Series wall door stops are both offered with multiple length options, so the projection can be matched to how far the knob or lever actually stands off the wall.

Tip color follows the finish. In US10B and US15A the stop ships with a black tip. The 619 Satin Nickel option is not called out for a black tip. If you are matching a run of doors in a lobby or corridor and want the tips consistent, pick one finish across the whole order rather than mixing 613 Satin Bronze Oil-Rubbed, US15A Antique Nickel, and 619 Satin Nickel.

The Delaney spring stop is a zinc-bodied spring type. If the opening calls for brass with a trim rosette instead, the Emtek 2255 is a brass wall bumper with a regular rosette, which suits residential and hospitality millwork where the stop is visible next to finished trim.

The Emtek 2255 is a brass wall bumper with a regular rosette, so it presents a finished escutcheon at the wall face. The Delaney 3-3/4 inch spring door stop is built on a zinc base metal and is offered in 613 Satin Bronze Oil-Rubbed, US15A Antique Nickel, and 619 Satin Nickel, with the US15A finish carrying a black tip. Choose between them on the base material and the look at the wall rather than on function; both stop the door at the wall.

Zinc is the base metal on the Delaney spring stop. It is a spring style stop, meaning the body flexes to absorb the door rather than stopping it dead like a rigid wall bumper.

They are two separate ABH wall door stop series, the RM Series and the RMS Series, each offered in multiple length options. For a distributor quoting a line, the series designation is what separates the two on the order; both address the same wall stop function the Delaney 3-3/4 inch spring door stop covers, but at a length the specifier chooses rather than the fixed 3-3/4 inches.