Emtek 1L1M25 Multi Point Lock Trim (Large Multi Point Entry Set) - Brass Plates, Melrose Style (2.9" x 17.5"), Dummy Pair

No. The 1L1M25 Melrose set is trim only, plates and handles. The multi point mortise lock box is a separate purchase, so you order the lock body to suit the door and use this set for the visible hardware. It's a dummy pair, meaning both sides are fixed pulls with no latching action of their own.

Nothing mechanical. A dummy pair gives you handles and plates on both faces of the door with no latch, no keying, and no operating spindle. It is what you put on the inactive leaf of a pair of swinging patio doors, or on a door held shut some other way, so the leaf matches the active one visually. If you need the leaf to lock and latch, you need an active multi point trim set and a lock body instead.

G-U is the reference door manufacturer for this large multi point configuration, and the trim is laid out for it at 3-5/8 inch center to center with the cylinder above the handle. Confirm your lock body carries that same spacing and cylinder-above-handle arrangement and the plates land correctly.

Yes, handing is required, right hand or left hand. Even as a dummy the plate and lever layout is handed, so a left hand set on a right hand leaf puts the hardware the wrong way round. Determine handing from the outside of the door, standing where the hinges are not visible.

Nine: Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel Lifetime (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Pewter (US15A), Flat Black (US19), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Unlacquered Brass (US3NL), and French Antique (US7). Unlacquered brass has no coating and will patina with handling and weather, so it is the one to pick only if you want that change; the Lifetime finishes hold their appearance. Matching an existing opening means matching the US code, not the finish name.

Three things beyond the finish: a lever style, handing, and your door thickness. The lever is a required selection, not an included default, and 51 brass lever styles work with this trim, from the L-Square, T-Bar and R-Bar bar levers in Faceted, Hammered, Knurled, Tribeca, Straight Knurled and White Marble treatments through named levers like Athena, Luzern, Poseidon, Cortina, Milano, Rope, Rustic and Santa Fe. Any brass lever in the line can be ordered on it.

It is residential hardware. For an apartment, condo, or single family patio door it is the right class of product; for a commercial entrance where you need a graded, cycle-tested lockset, this is not the product line to specify.

No cylinder is needed. The set is unkeyed, and while the plate carries the American cylinder position above the handle to match the active leaf, a dummy has no lock to operate. If you are keying the active leaf on the same pair, that is where the American-classification cylinder goes.

Solid brass, both the plates and the substrate. That is why it carries the full range of brass finishes including unlacquered, and why the lever selection is drawn from the brass lever line rather than the cast or bronze ranges.

Purely mechanical. There is no electronics, no motor, and no wiring in the 1L1M25, so nothing has to be run to the door and nothing changes when the power drops. It is a dummy trim on a brass plate.