Emtek Designer Brass Leverset - Santa Fe Lever, Privacy Set

Yes. The Santa Fe privacy leverset drops into standard door prep with a 2-1/8 inch cross bore and works on doors 1-3/8 inch through 2-1/4 inch thick. One exception matters: the STRETTO rosette is not a standard-prep part. It needs a 1-1/4 inch diameter bore and a 2-hole door preparation for the thumbturn. If your doors are already bored 2-1/8 inch and you don't want to redrill, pick any of the other rosettes.

Backset is a required selection: 2-3/8 inch or 2-3/4 inch. The latch ships standard for 2-3/8 inch, so if your existing bore is set back 2-3/4 inch from the door edge, specify 2-3/4 inch on the order. Those are the two normal residential backsets, and measuring from the door edge to the center of the 2-1/8 inch bore tells you which one you have.

Handing matters here. The Santa Fe is ordered left hand or right hand, so you need to know which way the door swings and which side the hinges are on before you order. Get it wrong and the lever points the wrong direction. This is different from most commercial cylindrical levers, which are non-handed or field reversible.

Non-keyed. It's a bed and bath privacy set: it locks from the inside with a thumbturn or button and has an emergency release on the outside, with no key cylinder anywhere on it. If you need a key on this opening, a privacy set is the wrong function. Look at an entrance or keyed-entry lever instead.

It's a residential lever, solid brass, with no ANSI grade behind it. For a bedroom or bath door in a house, condo or a nice apartment unit it's the right piece. For a bathroom on a commercial or institutional opening where a graded lock is spec'd, go to something like the Hager 2540 Grade 2 privacy lock with the Withnell lever, or the Arrow MK02-TA privacy lock, which is a knob rather than a lever.

The Baldwin Estate 5103 Privacy Lever with 5048 Rose is the nearest peer in the decorative residential class. Both are privacy/bed/bath lever sets with a rose-mounted decorative trim, so both cover the same bedroom and bathroom openings. The differences are in trim: the Emtek Santa Fe privacy set is a solid brass lever that can be ordered with any brass rosette, including #8, Lancaster, Oval, Quincy, Rectangular, Regular, Ribbon & Reed, Rope, Watford and Wilshire, while the Baldwin 5103 is supplied with the 5048 rose. Emtek finishes run French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass - Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Nickel (US15) and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL).

A privacy set is the wrong function for a hall or closet door because it carries a thumbturn and an emergency release. For a non-locking opening in the same decorative class, the Baldwin Estate 5103 Passage Lever with 5048 Rose is a passage/hall/closet function lever, and for a fixed pull on an inactive leaf the Baldwin Estate 5103 is also made as a left hand half dummy and a right hand half dummy. Within Emtek's own Santa Fe brass line the privacy set is the Privacy/Bed/Bath function, sold complete with latch and strike plate.

The Emtek Santa Fe brass privacy leverset is a residential product. For a facility opening that has to carry a grade and a fire rating, specify a commercial privacy lock instead: the Hager 2540 with Withnell lever is a Grade 2 privacy cylindrical lock for doors 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch thick, and the Arrow MK02-TA is a fire rated privacy/bed/bath cylindrical lock for doors 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch, though the MK02-TA is a Tudor knob rather than a lever, which matters where lever operation is required.

The Emtek Santa Fe privacy set lists a door thickness of 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch in its specifications, with the wider 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch range applying to a 2-1/8 inch bore standard door prep. Where a thicker leaf needs a lever, the Falcon K101 is a Grade 1 heavy duty passage cylindrical lock rated for 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch doors and the Corbin Russwin CL3110 passage/closet lever covers 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch. Both are passage function, so they hold no thumbturn; for a locking bath door on a thick leaf the Hager 2540 privacy lock covers 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch.

The Emtek Santa Fe privacy set is non-keyed, so it will not accept a cylinder. For a keyed opening in the decorative brass class, the Deltana 6201 Manchester, 6411 Morant and 6431 Linstead are entry function levers for doors 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch thick, and the Deltana 5851 Claremont is an entry function lever as well. On the commercial side the Hager 2525 is a Grade 2 entry cylindrical lock with a lever handle for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors, and the Cal-Royal AG00 entrance lever comes in a 6-pin Schlage C keyway keyed different with a 2-3/8 inch backset.

It ships as a complete set: both levers, the rosettes you select, the latch and the strike plate. You are not buying trim only. The latch faceplate comes round corner or square corner, so it can match the mortise already cut in your door edge.

CF stands for the concealed fastener build: the rosettes mount with no exposed screws on the face of the door. Choose it if the visible screw heads on a standard rosette bother you, which is the usual call on higher-end residential and hospitality work. Selecting CF also brings the 28 degree rotation latch with it. If exposed screws are fine, the standard latch or the 28 degree latch on its own are the other two choices.

The Santa Fe lever can be ordered with any brass rosette, and the choices are #8, Lancaster, Oval, Quincy, Rectangular, Regular, Ribbon and Reed, Rope, Watford and Wilshire. That is how you match this lever to knobs and other Emtek trim already in the house, and how you decide between a round and a rectangular look on the same lever.

Seven finishes: French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Nickel (US15) and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). A split finish is available as an order option, so you can run one finish on the corridor side and another inside the room. Unlacquered brass is the one that will patina over time rather than hold its look.

A privacy set is bed and bath only. For hall, closet and pantry doors you want a passage function in the same lever and rosette so the openings match, and for a false or inactive leaf you want a dummy. In the Baldwin Estate 5103 family we carry the passage, privacy, and both left and right hand half dummy levers on the same 5048 rose, which is a way to run one look across a whole floor.

Yes, up to 2-1/4 inches. That covers heavy solid core and most thick custom doors, and it's a wider range than most residential levers hold. Note the spec table on this product also cites 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch for door thickness, so on anything over 1-3/4 inch use the Door Thickness field on the order and state the actual measured thickness of your door.

The Kwikset 300BRNL RDT Breton Privacy Lever Set is a Grade 3 privacy/bed/bath lever that fits doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch thick, the same thickness band the Emtek Santa Fe privacy set lists in its specifications. It gives the same bed and bath function on a fixed round rose. The Santa Fe privacy set is the decorative route instead: solid brass, adjustable 2-3/8 inch or 2-3/4 inch backset, ten brass rosette styles and seven finishes, with a CF mechanism option that leaves no exposed screws on the rosettes.

The Emtek Santa Fe brass leverset is ordered as Left Hand (LH) or Right Hand (RH), so the opening has to be handed before the order goes in. If you are buying to stock rather than to a specific door, the Falcon B101 is a Grade 2 cylindrical passage lever with a non-handed design and the Falcon K101 is a Grade 1 passage lock with non-handed levers. Both are passage function, so they replace a hall or closet lever rather than a bed and bath privacy set.

No. Dummy trim has no latch and no locking mechanism, so it cannot secure a bath door. The BEST 9K Series 1DT single dummy trim and the BEST 7KC Series single dummy trim are surface mounted pulls for inactive leaves, and the Callan Bentley is a Grade 2 dummy lever in the same category. The Emtek Santa Fe privacy set is a tubular privacy/bed/bath lock sold complete with latch and strike plate, with a thumbturn for the inside of the door.

It solves a different problem. The Emtek Santa Fe brass leverset is a non-electronic privacy/bed/bath set, locked from inside the room by thumbturn. Keypad levers such as the Lockey 2835, a mechanical pushbutton keyless lever lock with passage function and ADA compliance for doors 1 3/16 inch to 2 inch, the Lockey 2835DC double combination version, and the Lockey 1150 heavy duty mechanical keypad lever set for 1-1/8 inch to 2 inch doors control who enters from the outside on a code. The Delaney LP250 is a Grade 2 electronic keypad leverlock in the same vein. None of them serve the bedroom or bathroom privacy role the Santa Fe set is built for.