Deltana G2DLP238 Grade 2 Drive-In-Latch Passage/Privacy 2-3/8" Backset

A drive-in latch has a round collar in place of a flat faceplate, so it taps straight into the bored edge hole with no mortise cut and no faceplate screws. That is the whole point of the type: on a new door or a pre-bored slab you skip the router work. The trade off is that if your door edge is already mortised for a rectangular faceplate, a drive-in collar will sit in that recess with a gap around it, and you want a standard face-plated latch there instead.

No. The G2DLP238 is a passage/privacy latch, so it has no deadlocking plunger and no keyed function. On an exterior or keyed-entry opening you need a keyed cylindrical lockset with a deadlocking latch, otherwise the latch can be shimmed with a card. Keep this one on interior openings: bedrooms, baths, closets, offices, corridors.

It carries an ANSI/BHMA Grade 2 rating and Deltana lists it as commercial. Grade 2 is the middle commercial tier, which is what most institutional buyers spec for interior offices, classrooms, patient rooms and multi-family unit doors where Grade 1 is not required. For high-traffic main corridor and stairwell openings, spec Grade 1 instead.

Both. It is a passage/privacy latch, meaning it is a plain non-keyed latch with no deadlocking function, and the same part serves a hall or closet knob set (passage) or a bath or bedroom set with a push-button or turn-button lock (privacy). The locking on a privacy set happens in the trim, not in this latch, so one latch covers both.

Brushed stainless, which Deltana calls US32D. On a drive-in latch only the round collar shows on the door edge, so if the rest of your hardware is satin chrome or brushed nickel the collar reads as a close match. It is the single finish this latch is built in, so there is no other option to match a bright brass or oil-rubbed bronze knob set on the edge.

Each. Pricing and packaging are per single latch, so if you are replacing latches on twenty unit doors you order twenty. It is the latch only, not a knob or lever set, so the trim comes separately.