Design Hardware Push Plate

Yes, it ships with 1/2 inch sheet metal screws. Those are sized for a hollow metal or wood door face. If you are mounting to a glass door rail or need through bolting, the supplied screws will not do the job and you need a different fastening method.

Go with the 3-1/2 x 15 inch plate. The 4 x 16 inch plate needs more flat face width than a narrow stile leaves you once you clear the glass stop, and a plate that overhangs the stile will not sit flat. On a wood or hollow metal door with a full width face, either size works and the 4 x 16 is the more common commercial choice.

A push plate is a flat plate with no handle, mounted on the push side to keep hands off the door face. A pull plate has a handle attached and goes on the pull side. Most openings get both, one on each face. The Design Hardware plate is the flat push plate. For the matching pull side in the same sizes, Delaney lists a 3-1/2 x 15 inch pull plate and a 4 x 16 inch pull plate.

Not as a trim substitute. The Detex P/PN Series Pull Plate is made as trim for Detex Value Series exit devices, so it is matched to that device on the outside of the opening. The Design Hardware push plate is a flat plate with sheet metal screw fasteners and no relationship to an exit device chassis. On an exit device opening, order the device trim, and use the push plate only where a plain plate protects the push face.

Yes. The Delaney 4" x 16" Push Plate, DLY-490xxx, is built in the 4 by 16 inch plate size, the same larger size the Design Hardware push plate is made in. That matters when you are replacing plates on an existing door and want to cover the same screw pattern and paint shadow on the stile.

For openings that see constant traffic, the Ives 8302 Heavy Duty Pull Plate is rated heavy duty and mounts with through bolts, which carries the pull load through the door rather than into sheet metal screws. The Ives 8303 Heavy Duty Pull Plate is also heavy duty and mounts on 8 inch or 10 inch center-to-center. The Design Hardware push plate is a .050 inch plate fastened with 1/2 inch sheet metal screws, which suits the push side where there is no pulling load.

The plate is .050 inch material in stainless steel, brass, or bronze. That is a standard commercial gauge push plate, screw applied, and it protects the door face from hand and cart contact. For openings where people pull hard on the plate edge or where a cart hits it repeatedly, a heavy duty through bolted plate like the Ives 8302 is the sturdier mounting.

630 satin stainless steel is one of the three finishes offered, alongside 613 dark bronze and 606 satin brass. 630 is the BHMA finish number used across commercial lever and closer hardware, so a plate specified 630 lines up with the rest of an opening specified the same way.

Emtek makes push and pull plate sets with a designed face: the Knoxville Push & Pull Plates, the Modern Push & Pull Plates, and the Lost Wax Cast Bronze Petal Push & Pull Plates. Those suit lobbies and residential-facing entries where the plate is part of the look. The Design Hardware push plate is a plain .050 inch plate in stainless steel, brass or bronze, in 613 dark bronze, 630 satin stainless steel and 606 satin brass, which is what most commercial and MRO standardization runs on.

Trimco publishes several cast pull plates by center-to-center dimension: the 1010 Series cast pull plate at 5 inch CTC, the 1012 cast tapered heavy duty pull plate at 5.5 inch CTC, the 1013 round heavy duty pull plate at 5.5 inch CTC, and the 1014 Series half-round pull plate at 6 inch CTC. The 1010, 1012 and 1013 are heavy duty. Match the CTC on the drawing before ordering, since the pull grip spacing is what the spec is calling out.

For a push-pull pair in one size, the Delaney 3-1/2" x 15" Push Plate and the Delaney 3-1/2" x 15" Door Pull Plate share the 3-1/2 by 15 inch plate size, and the Delaney 4" x 16" Push Plate and 4" x 16" Door Pull Plate share the 4 by 16 inch size. Emtek sells push and pull as a set in the Knoxville, Modern and Petal designs. The Design Hardware push plate covers the push face in the same two plate sizes, so it pairs with a pull plate of matching size and finish on the opposite face.

On a single-acting door that only swings away from the traffic side, the push face takes hand and cart contact and needs a flat plate with no projection, which is what the Design Hardware push plate is. Substituting a pull plate such as the Trimco 1010 Series cast pull plate with 5 inch CTC puts a grip on a face nobody pulls, and the projecting bar becomes a snag in a corridor. Confirm the swing before swapping.