Deltana MSH158 Letter Box Hood

The MSH158 is a hood only, not a complete mail slot. It mounts over the interior side of the opening as a privacy accessory so mail drops down behind it instead of the opening giving a straight sight line and draft path into the room. You still order the mail slot separately, and it has to be a Deltana MS0030 or MS211. The hood ships in an individual poly bag with mounting hardware.

Only if the existing slot is a Deltana MS0030 or MS211. Those are the two models the MSH158 is built to pair with. If the door has another maker's slot, or a different Deltana slot, treat it as a no and match the hood to the slot you're actually installing rather than assuming a common cutout.

They are two different parts of a mail slot assembly and are not interchangeable. The Deltana MSH158 is a letter box hood, a solid brass privacy accessory that mounts to the Deltana MS0030 and MS211 mail slot models and hangs behind the opening. The Emtek 2281 is a mail slot sleeve in Emtek's Mail Slot series, the tube that lines the hole through the door. A hood does not line a door bore and a sleeve does not provide the privacy flap, so a buyer replacing a damaged interior tube wants the sleeve and a buyer adding a draft and sight barrier behind an existing Deltana slot wants the hood.

The MSH158 letter box hood is built to the Deltana MS0030 and MS211 mail slot models, so on an opening fitted with another maker's slot the hood is the wrong starting point. For a door built around Emtek hardware, the Emtek 2281 mail slot sleeve is the matching Mail Slot series component for the through-door portion of the assembly. A contractor should identify which slot body is already in the door before ordering the interior component, because these parts are matched to their own slot bodies rather than being generic.

The MSH158 is solid brass throughout, not a plated pot metal casting, and Deltana rates it for commercial use. Brass on an exterior door will patina; if you want the look to stay put across a run of entry doors, the PVD polished brass finish is the one to standardize on, since PVD is a hard coating rather than a lacquer that wears through at the hand.

No. The Emtek 2281 is a mail slot sleeve, the through-door liner in Emtek's Mail Slot series, and it does not close off the interior side of the opening. The privacy function comes from the Deltana MSH158 letter box hood, which is built as a privacy accessory for the Deltana MS0030 and MS211 mail slots. On a door where the mail drops straight into the room and the owner wants that shielded, the hood is the part that does it; the sleeve addresses a different problem, which is finishing and protecting the cut edge of the door bore.

The Deltana MSH158 letter box hood is offered in nine finishes: polished brass, PVD polished brass, antique brass, oil rubbed bronze, brushed nickel, antique nickel, polished chrome, brushed chrome, and paint black. That range lets a hood be matched to brass, bronze, nickel, chrome, or black door trim already hanging on the other units. The Emtek 2281 is a mail slot sleeve in the Mail Slot series and serves a different position in the assembly, so it is not a finish alternative to the hood on the same door; it is the liner that would sit inside the same opening.

No, mounting hardware comes in the bag with the hood. It's sold each, so one hood covers one opening; order one per door if you're doing a run of units.