Deltana FDB218 Floor Door Bumper 2-1/8", Solid Brass

Stops only. The FDB218 is a fixed floor bumper, 2-1/8 inches, that takes the impact of the door and nothing more. If you need the door to stay open, that's a different part: the Ives FS40/FS41/FS42/FS43 is an automatic floor stop and holder with adjustable door-to-floor clearance, the Orca Hardware 22HD Series gooseneck is listed as a door holder, and the SOSS MDH is a magnetic door holder and stop. Buying a bumper when the crew actually wants the door held open at the wall is the most common miss on this part.

The FDB218 stands 2-1/8 inches, which puts the bumper face well above a typical door undercut so the door edge strikes the rubber rather than passing over it. Measure from the finished floor to the bottom of your door before ordering: a door with a large undercut over carpet needs the taller stop, and if you have very little clearance a low-rise dome like the Orca 23LP Series is the better shape. Deltana builds floor mounted bumpers in a range of sizes and designs, so height is the thing to match to the opening.

It comes down to where the door lands. A floor bumper like the 2-1/8 inch FDB218 sits under the door leaf and takes the strike on its top, so it works where the door swings into open floor and you can set the stop at the right radius from the hinge. A gooseneck reaches up and out to catch the door higher on the face, which is what you want when the door would otherwise hit a baseboard or a wall behind it, the Delaney Gooseneck and Emtek 2253 Goose Style are that shape. The tradeoff with any floor bumper is a trip point in the walking path, so on tight corridors people go to a gooseneck or a wall stop instead.

Closest in kind is the Emtek 2254 Floor Door Bumper at 1-3/8 inch by 1-1/4 inch, a shorter unit than the 2-1/8 inch Deltana, and the Emtek 2257 is a 1-1/2 inch cylindrical floor bumper if you want a straight column rather than a shaped body. For a dome profile, the Delaney Dome Door Stop or the Emtek 2251 Half Dome. On the commercial side, the Ives FS13 and FS17 are heavy duty brass floor dome stops, the FS13 with a replaceable rubber bumper, which is the one to look at if you expect to service the tip rather than replace the whole stop.

The Emtek 2254 Floor Door Bumper is the nearest match in form and purpose. It is a floor-mounted bumper measuring 1-3/8 inch by 1-1/4 inch, where the Deltana FDB218 is a 2-1/8 inch solid brass floor bumper. Both are simple fixed floor bumpers rather than holders, so the swap is a matter of the projection you need off the floor: the FDB218 stands taller, the 2254 sits lower and smaller. Emtek also builds the 2257 Cylindrical Floor Bumper at 1-1/2 inch if you want a straight cylinder profile instead.

A bumper only arrests the swing; it will not keep the leaf open. For hold-open, the Ives FS40 / FS41 / FS42 / FS43 automatic floor stop and holder catches and holds the door, and its door-to-floor clearance is adjustable, which matters when the finish floor height varies room to room. The Orca Hardware 22HD Series goose neck floor stop is also built as a door holder and is rated for 1-3/8 inch or 1-3/4 inch doors. The SOSS MDH is a magnetic door holder and stop at 3-5/16 inch by 1-3/4 inch, which holds by magnet rather than by a mechanical catch. The Deltana FDB218 is a stop only.

A gooseneck stop is the answer when the gap between floor and door bottom is too great for a low bumper to contact. The Emtek 2253 Goose Style Door Stop and the Delaney Gooseneck Floor Door Stop both use the raised neck profile, and the Orca Hardware 22HD Series goose neck floor stop is built for 1-3/8 inch or 1-3/4 inch doors. The Deltana FDB218 is a 2-1/8 inch floor bumper, so it works where the leaf comes close to the floor; the gooseneck forms extend the strike point upward instead.

Ten finishes on the FDB218: PVD Polished Brass, Polished Brass, Unlacquered Brass, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, and Paint Black. That spread is why it gets specified on jobs where the stop has to disappear against existing trim, the PVD version for exterior or high-wear openings, unlacquered brass where the rest of the hardware is meant to patina in together.

Solid brass, both the material and the substrate are brass on the FDB218, not a plated pot metal core. That matters on a floor stop more than most trim: it's kicked, mopped over, and hit by the door edge repeatedly, and a plated zinc body chips at the strike point where a solid brass one just wears. It's rated for commercial use.

Mounting hardware ships in the bag with it. Each FDB218 comes packed individually in a poly bag with its mounting hardware, sold one per unit. Worth knowing that the supplied fasteners suit a normal wood or finished floor fixing; if you're going into concrete or tile, plan on your own anchors for that substrate.

Commercial. The FDB218 is classed for commercial use and built in solid brass, so it goes on office, hospitality, and multi-family openings as well as houses. Where it does get outrun is genuinely abusive traffic, a school corridor or a loading area, where the heavy duty Ives floor stops (FS13, FS17, or the FS18S/FS18L security floor stop) are the spec to look at. For standardizing across a building, the ten finish options on the Deltana mean one model number covers openings with different trim packages.

Not for the FDB218. A floor mounted bumper takes the door on its bottom edge or face, so the leaf thickness doesn't drive the selection the way it does on a gooseneck, the Orca 22HD gooseneck, for instance, is called out for 1-3/8 inch or 1-3/4 inch doors because it wraps the edge. What decides the floor bumper is the swing radius and the undercut: set it where the door lands with the opening at the angle you want, far enough out that the door doesn't reach the wall, and tall enough at 2-1/8 inches to catch the leaf.

The Orca Hardware 23LP Series is a low rise dome floor stop with a gray tip, built specifically as a low-profile door stop. The Emtek 2251 Half Dome Door Stop and the Delaney Dome Door Stop use the same low dome geometry. Those dome forms keep the least material above the finish floor. The Deltana FDB218 stands 2-1/8 inch, which is a taller cylindrical bumper and a more visible object in the path of foot traffic - worth weighing in a corridor or an ADA-sensitive route where anything projecting from the floor gets scrutinized.

The Ives FS13 and FS17 are heavy duty brass floor dome stops built to a commercial specification. The Deltana FDB218 is where the finish range lives: solid brass in PVD Polished Brass, Polished Brass, Unlacquered Brass, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, and Paint Black. If the stop has to read as part of a decorative suite on lever trim and hinges, the Deltana range is the one to match against; if it is a back-of-house opening where nobody is matching finishes, the Ives heavy duty stops are the harder-wearing choice.

No. The SOSS MDH is a magnetic door holder and stop measuring 3-5/16 inch by 1-3/4 inch - it catches the door magnetically and keeps it open until it is pulled free. The Deltana FDB218 is a 2-1/8 inch solid brass floor bumper that stops the swing and releases the door immediately. Swapping one for the other changes how the opening behaves: a door on a magnetic holder stays put, which is the wrong outcome on a door that needs to close behind traffic. Same location on the floor, different job.

The Emtek 2257 is a 1-1/2 inch cylindrical floor bumper, the straight-sided form rather than a dome or a gooseneck. The Deltana FDB218 is a 2-1/8 inch solid brass floor bumper in the same upright bumper family. Between the two the practical difference is height off the floor: 1-1/2 inch versus 2-1/8 inch. Measure from finish floor to the point on the door face you want the bumper to contact, then pick the one that lands on solid stile rather than on a panel or a glass stop.

The Ives FS18S/FS18L is a security floor stop built to a heavy duty level, which is the specification reached for on openings where the stop itself may be attacked or abused - detention-adjacent, back-of-house, or any door where a torn-off stop becomes a maintenance ticket. A standard floor bumper such as the Deltana FDB218, a 2-1/8 inch solid brass unit, is a general-purpose stop for normal commercial traffic. Choose on the abuse the opening sees, not on the swing arc, since both mount to the floor in the door's path.