Deltana SDH193 Shutter Door Holder, 2-3/4"

The SDH193 is a holder, not a latch. It keeps a shutter, shutter door, or window parked in the open or closed position depending on how you set it up, so a shutter isn't banging in the wind or drifting shut. It's a surface-mounted piece of solid brass and steel hardware, sized 2-3/4 inches. If what you need is something that secures a shutter closed and stays locked, a shutter latch or bar is the different part to look at.

Nine finishes: PVD Polished Brass, Polished Brass, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, and Paint Black. For a building where you're matching existing shutter hardware across many openings, PVD Polished Brass is the one to pick when the holders are exposed to weather, since PVD holds its color far longer than a standard lacquered brass finish outdoors. Paint Black is the usual choice on black-painted shutters.

Solid brass and steel construction, with brass as the base substrate. That matters outdoors, which is where most shutter holders live: brass doesn't rust the way a plated zinc casting does when the coating gets chipped by a shutter slamming into it. Deltana rates the SDH193 for commercial use.

Priced and sold each. A shutter holder works one per leaf, so a two-leaf window with shutters on both sides takes two, and a run of ten windows with paired shutters takes twenty. Worth doing the count by leaf, not by opening, before you place the order.

It surface mounts, no boring or mortising into the shutter. Deltana calls out easy installation for the shutter door holders, which means fastening to the face of the shutter and the adjacent surface rather than cutting the stile. That's the practical difference from a shutter latch that needs a strike prep. Field-drill your pilot holes to suit the substrate you're landing on, since brick, wood trim, and fiber cement each want different anchors.

At 2-3/4 inches the SDH193 gives you a modest footprint, so it won't necessarily hide holes from a larger holder you're taking off. Pull one existing unit, measure its footprint and hole spacing, and compare before committing to a whole-building order. If the old holes fall outside the new base, plan on plugging and refinishing the shutter face at each location.

Deltana lists the SDH193 as commercial. Combined with the solid brass and steel build, that's what makes it a reasonable spec for multi-family, hospitality, or historic-district properties where shutters are functional rather than decorative and get worked every season.