Emtek 3350 Albany Brass Mortise Entrance Handleset - Entry Set

Yes, handing is required on every mortise lock, and the 3350 Albany is no exception. Four choices: LH, RH, LHR and RHR, with the reverse-bevel options (LHR and RHR) being the ones you want on an out-swing door. Stand outside the opening: if the hinges are on your left and the door swings toward you, it's LHR. Get this wrong and the lever or knob throw is backwards in the case, so it is worth confirming at the door before the order goes in.

Two backsets are offered, 2-1/2 inch and 2-3/4 inch, so measure from the door edge to the center of the existing spindle hole before ordering. The case is cut for standard mortise door prep to ANSI A115.1, which is the prep most existing commercial and heavy residential mortise pockets were routed to. If your door was prepped to A115.1 and your backset matches one of the two, the lock body drops into the existing pocket.

F20 is the entrance function: the outside handle is locked or unlocked by key or by the inside thumbturn, and the inside lever or knob always retracts the latch to get out. F13 is dormitory, which is the more restrictive setup where the outside stays locked once set and the key is what lets you back in. Pick F20 for a front door on a house or a unit that residents lock behind them; F13 suits openings where you don't want the outside trim left unlocked by accident. Both are ordered on the same 3350 Albany trim, so the exterior look is identical either way.

The Albany 3350 cylinder is a Schlage C keyway, so it keys alike with anything else on SC1/Schlage C, which is the most common residential keyway in North America. Keyed alike and keyed different are both offered at no charge, and you can also supply an existing key code to have it cut to your current key. If your other doors are on a Kwikset KW1 keyway, they will not match without rekeying those cylinders.

A mortise set puts the latch and the deadbolt in one steel case buried in the edge of the door, so there is one pocket, one keyed cylinder, and one point of failure instead of two bores stacked above each other. That's why it's the choice on heavier and taller entry doors and where a fire rating matters. The tradeoff is the prep: the door has to be mortised to ANSI A115.1 and handed correctly. A tubular handleset such as the Schlage Residential F60 Addison drops into standard 2-1/8 inch bores, is not handed, and fits a range of 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors, which makes it the simpler retrofit on an ordinary residential door.

The Emtek 3350 Albany is built for a 1-3/4 inch door as standard, with thicker doors handled by specifying the thickness at the time of order. If a stock range is preferred instead, the Weslock 1411 Traditionale Colonial handleset with Eleganti knob is a single cylinder keyed entry set listed for 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 inch doors. The Deltana 810871 Montego handleset covers 1-3/8 to 2 inches, and the Weslock 2810 Hillcrest single cylinder handleset with Hudson knob covers 1-3/8 to 2 inches.

The Emtek 3350 Albany is a mortise entrance handleset that installs into a standard ANSI A115.1 mortise door prep. The Baldwin Estates 6542 Tremont single cylinder entry mortise trim is the comparable mortise entry option, and Baldwin also builds it as the 6542 Tremont double cylinder entry mortise trim if both sides need to be keyed. Both Baldwin 6542 versions are listed for a 1-3/4 inch door. The Emtek 3350 ships as a complete set including the latch and strike plate, so if you are replacing a full mortise assembly rather than just the trim, that is the difference to check before ordering.

The Emtek 3350 Albany requires a standard mortise door prep to ANSI A115.1 and handing must be specified. If the door is not mortise prepped, the Schlage Residential F60 Addison single cylinder keyed entry handleset with Accent lever is a Grade 2 F Series entry handleset for doors 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch. The Kwikset 687AMD Amador single cylinder handleset is another keyed entry option, Grade 3, for a 1-3/4 inch door, and is sold as exterior trim only. The Pamex FS7P31 Lexington single cylinder handleset covers 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors in a satin nickel finish.

The Emtek 3350 Albany is a keyed single cylinder entry set. Several handlesets that appear alongside it are not keyed and will not secure an opening. The Weslock 6695 Belmont handleset with Impresa knob and the Weslock 2815 Hillcrest handleset with New Heaven lever are both dummy function, meaning fixed trim with no latch operation. The Schlage Residential JE285 Barcelona style handleset with Seville lever is a non-keyed entry function in the J Series. Use those only on inactive or dummy leaves, not on the door that needs to lock.

The Emtek 3350 Albany is a mechanical, non-electronic handleset keyed to a Schlage C keyway. For a keypad or app-controlled opening, the Yale Real Living BYRD226CBARX Assure Lock is a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth touchscreen deadbolt with the Ridgefield handleset, and the BYRD226NRRX is the standalone touchscreen version of the same Ridgefield set with no network connection. Both are listed for 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 inch doors. The Kwikset 815SCEHFL-CP913CNT San Clemente handleset pairs Halifax lever interior trim with a contemporary SmartCode keypad electronic deadbolt in the Signature Series for a 1-3/4 inch door. All of these are deadbolt-and-handleset combinations rather than a mortise lock body.

The mortise lock body is UL Listed with a UL 180 minute fire rating, which covers the 3-hour door assemblies as well as the 20 minute and 90 minute openings typical of a house-to-garage door. The rating belongs to the lock, so the door and frame still have to be a labeled assembly for the opening to be compliant.

It ships as a complete set, mortise lock body, latch and strike plate included, plus the exterior handleset and the interior knob or lever you choose. The only thing you specify beyond the set itself is the inside trim style, and it is a required choice, so nothing arrives without an interior handle. What is not in the box is anything the door needs: if the pocket isn't already cut, you're mortising the door and routing for the faceplate and strike.

Levers and knobs both mount to the interior side of the 3350 Albany, and it's a required pick when you order. The list runs from plain levers like the Stuttgart, Athena and Geneva through knurled and faceted bar styles such as the L-Square Knurled and T-Bar Tribeca, to crystal knobs like Windsor and Georgetown and marble options like the R-Bar White Marble. A lever is the easier choice for anyone with limited grip, which is why it is usually the pick on rentals and accessible units.

For a 2 inch leaf, the Weslock 2810 Hillcrest single cylinder handleset covers 1-3/8 to 2 inches, and the Deltana 810871 Montego handleset covers the same 1-3/8 to 2 inch range. If the door is heavier still, the Weslock 1411 Traditionale colonial handleset runs 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 inches. All three are tubular sets rather than mortise, so they need bored prep, not a mortise pocket.

The Baldwin Estates 6542 Tremont entry mortise trim is the true peer, mortise rather than tubular, entrance function, built for a 1-3/4 inch door. It comes two ways: single cylinder (key outside, thumbturn inside) like the Albany 3350, or double cylinder, which takes a key on both sides and is the one to pick when there is glass beside the door. Handlesets from Deltana, Weslock and Kwikset in this class are tubular sets and will not go into a mortise pocket.

Emtek classes the Albany 3350 as residential hardware, so it belongs on houses, condos and multi-family unit entry doors rather than a high-traffic commercial opening. The lock body is a UL Listed mortise with a 180 minute fire rating and standard A115.1 prep, so it is heavier hardware than a typical residential tubular set, but if you are specifying for a commercial entrance under a Grade 1 requirement this is not the family to pick.

Keying is set per order, so a property manager can run the same Albany 3350 trim, finish and interior lever across every unit door while ordering each one keyed different, or group them keyed alike by building or floor. There is also a keying-to-code field if the property already runs a code and you want new doors cut to it. All of it is on the Schlage C keyway, which is what makes matching across a mixed-age building realistic.

The Emtek 3350 Albany uses a Schlage C keyway and can be ordered keyed alike across a group of doors or keyed to an existing code, which is how a fleet of units gets brought onto one key. The Kwikset 687AMD SMC Amador single cylinder handleset uses the SC1 keyway with SmartKey, and the Kwikset 687BW Belleview single cylinder handleset is the SmartKey version in a different trim style; both are Grade 3 for 1-3/4 inch doors and are sold as exterior trim only, so interior trim is ordered separately. The Emtek 3350 ships as a complete set with the latch and strike plate.

The Emtek 3350 Albany is solid brass in an American Classic style and comes in Flat Black (US19), French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Nickel (US15), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Deltana builds several solid brass entry handlesets in the same vein: the 803871B Hanover, the 815871 St. Ann, and the 825871 Kingston, each an entry function solid brass handleset in its own series. The Deltana sets are bored-prep handlesets, while the Emtek 3350 is a mortise lock and requires handing to be specified.

The Emtek 3350 Albany is a UL listed mortise lock with an ANSI F20 entrance or F13 dormitory function and a UL 180 minute fire rating. Where a submittal calls out an ANSI/BHMA grade instead, the Schlage Residential F60 Addison single cylinder keyed entry handleset with Accent lever is Grade 2 in the F Series, and the Master Lock HDLBA0615/4D single cylinder deadbolt handleset in the HDLB Series is also Grade 2. The Kwikset 687AMD Amador and 687BW Belleview handlesets are Grade 3.

The Emtek 3350 Albany is a one-piece mortise entrance handleset where the lock body handles both latching and deadbolting in a single mortise pocket. For a two-bore opening instead, the Schlage Residential JI18/19 interconnected passage lock with keyed deadbolt and Torino lever in satin stainless steel is a Grade 2 JI Series interconnected set for doors 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch. It puts a separate deadbolt above a passage lever rather than combining the functions into one mortise case.

Solid brass, both the substrate and the collection. Eight finishes are offered: Flat Black (US19), French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Nickel (US15) and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Two of those behave differently over time on an exterior door: Unlacquered Brass has no coating and is meant to patina, going brown and mottled with handling, and Oil Rubbed Bronze wears bright at the grip points. If you want the door to look the same in five years, the lifetime Polished Brass or Satin Nickel is the safer call.

The Emtek 3350 Albany is ordered with the inside trim selected as part of the set, from a range that includes the Ace knob, Spoke knob, Stuttgart lever, Athena lever, Bristol crystal knob, and dozens of other brass knob and lever styles. Baldwin builds the Wesley handleset in matched combinations as well, as the 180WYHXATK with the Alcott knob and the 180WYHXCYK with the Carnaby knob, both entrance function. By contrast the Kwikset 687AMD Amador and 687BW Belleview are exterior trim only, so interior trim has to be specified separately.