Delaney Kick Down Door Stop/Holder

The Delaney 402806 kick down stop/holder is built for a door-to-floor clearance of 2 inches or less. The arm swings down from the door face and bears on the floor, so if your undercut is bigger than 2 inches (a tall carpet transition, a raised threshold, or a door hung high over tile), the arm won't reach and hold. Measure from the bottom of the door leaf to the finished floor at the point where the stop will mount before you order.

It mounts on the face of the door near the bottom, not on the floor. That is the practical difference between the Delaney kick down holder and a floor dome stop like the Ives FS13, which anchors into the slab or sub-floor. If you can't drill the floor (finished stone, radiant heat, tenant restrictions), the kick down is the one that works. If you want nothing on the door face, the dome stop is the alternative.

It does both. You kick the arm down and it holds the door open at whatever position you set; kick it back up and the door swings free. A plain floor bumper such as the Emtek 2254 only stops the door against the wall, it doesn't hold it. If you want hold-open without anything on the door face, an automatic floor stop and holder like the Ives FS40 series or a magnetic holder like the SOSS MDH does the same job from the floor or wall.

The Delaney 402806 is a kick down floor stop that also functions as a hold-open, with a 4-1/8 inch length and a zinc base metal. The closest functional equivalent is the Ives FS40 / FS41 / FS42 / FS43 automatic floor stop and holder, which is a heavy duty floor stop and holder rather than a stop alone. The Orca Hardware 22HD Series goose neck floor stop is also listed as a door holder and is rated for 1-3/8 inch or 1-3/4 inch doors.

Use a plain floor stop. The Orca Hardware 23LP Series is a low rise dome floor stop with a gray tip and is listed with a door stop function only. The Ives FS13 and FS17 are heavy duty brass floor dome stops with rubber bumpers, the FS13 with a replaceable bumper. The Emtek 2251 half dome door stop is another stop-only option. The Delaney 402806 differs in that it kicks down to hold the door open as well as stopping it.

The Delaney 402806 kick down stop and holder is specified for a door-to-floor clearance of 2 inches or less, so a taller riser is the answer on a large gap. The Emtek 2253 goose style door stop and the Orca Hardware 22HD Series goose neck floor stop both use a tall riser profile, and the 22HD is listed as a door holder for 1-3/8 inch or 1-3/4 inch doors.

Carpet is the usual reason to go kick down. A floor-mounted dome stop has to be anchored through the carpet and pad into the sub-floor, and the pile absorbs the strike; the Delaney kick down instead mounts on the door and drops onto the floor, so nothing gets fastened into the flooring. Just confirm the gap from door bottom to the top of the carpet is 2 inches or less, since that is the clearance the arm is designed for.

Only if you set it before the door swings. A kick down holder parks the door where you leave it, so it will keep a leaf off the wall when it's engaged, but with the arm up the door swings free and the knob can still hit plaster. If wall protection is the real goal, pair it with a floor bumper such as the Deltana UFB4505 or the Emtek 2257 cylindrical floor bumper set in the door's swing path.

No handing to specify. The kick down mounts to the door face and the arm pivots straight down to the floor, so the same unit works on a left hand or right hand door, in-swing or out-swing, as long as the arm can drop on the side you mount it and the floor under it is hard enough to grip.

The Delaney 402806 kick down stop and holder mounts to the door itself and drops to the floor, but it needs 2 inches or less of door-to-floor clearance. A wall-mounted alternative is the SOSS MDH magnetic door holder and stop, a heavy duty unit measuring 3-5/16 inches by 1-3/4 inches that catches and holds the door magnetically rather than on the floor surface.

No. The Deltana UFB4505 1-1/2 inch round, UFBS138 1-3/8 inch square, UFBP4505 1-5/8 inch pattern cap, and UFBD3505 3-1/2 inch decorative bumpers are all solid brass floor bumpers that stop the door at the swing limit. None of them hold a door open. The Delaney 402806 is a kick down stop and holder, so if hold-open is part of the job the bumpers are not a substitute.

For a straightforward residential opening, the Sure-Loc floor stop with spring or the Sure-Loc cylindrical floor stop for residential doors are simpler floor-mounted stops, as is the Emtek 2257 1-1/2 inch cylindrical floor bumper and the Emtek 2254 floor door bumper at 1-3/8 inches by 1-1/4 inches. All of these stop the swing only; the Delaney 402806 adds the kick down hold-open.