Emtek Trail Appliance Pull, 12" and 18" Appliance Pulls, Schaub Collection

The Trail pull is built for appliance duty. It comes in 12 inch and 18 inch center-to-center, which are the two sizes that cover a refrigerator or freezer panel and a dishwasher or panel-ready range. Mounting is the deciding factor on an appliance panel: standard thru-bolt with decorative caps needs holes drilled through the panel, back-to-back pairs two pulls through a single panel, and concealed surface mounts from the face with no hardware showing on the back. On a factory panel-ready appliance you generally cannot drill through, so concealed surface is the mounting to specify there.

Back-to-back means two pulls mount through the same panel on opposite faces, sharing the same bolts. That is what you use on a swinging door or a pantry panel that gets pulled from both sides. Concealed surface fastens from the face of the panel with no visible fastener and nothing coming through the back, which is the choice when the reverse side is finished or is an appliance skin you cannot penetrate. Standard is thru-bolt with decorative caps, where the fastener heads show on the back as finished caps.

Center-to-center is the only size choice, 12 inch or 18 inch. The 18 inch is the usual call on a full-height refrigerator or freezer panel, where a short bar looks undersized against a tall door. The 12 inch suits a dishwasher, an under-counter refrigerator drawer, or a narrower panel. On a French-door fridge with two side-by-side panels, a pair of 12 inch pulls often reads better than two 18s crowded together. Both sizes carry the same 1-7/8 inch projection, so clearance does not change between them.

Yes. It is catalogued as a door or appliance pull, and the back-to-back mounting option exists precisely for door use, where you want a matching pull on each face of a swinging door. With 12 inch and 18 inch center-to-center and 1-7/8 inch projection, it works as a pull on a pantry, a barn-style slab, or an interior swing door. Note that this is a residential-rated pull with no latching or locking function of any kind, so it is a grab only, not door hardware that secures anything.

No extra hardware to order. The Trail pull ships as a complete set with screws included. Mounting style is chosen when you order (standard thru-bolt with decorative caps, back-to-back, or concealed surface), so pick the one that matches your panel construction rather than sourcing fasteners separately.

Seven finishes: Flat Black (US19), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Brass (US4), Satin Nickel (US15), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Those are the standard US finish codes, so a Satin Nickel US15 Trail pull matches other US15 hardware in the same line. Two to watch: Unlacquered Brass US3NL is a living finish that darkens with handling and will not stay matched to a lacquered brass piece, and Oil Rubbed Bronze also changes with wear at grip points.

It is a residential-rated pull. For an apartment unit kitchen or a model home that is a reasonable spec, but it carries no commercial grade rating, so it is not the part to put on a restaurant, institutional galley, or any opening where a commercial hardware grade is being called out on the drawing. Spec a commercially graded pull for those.

Panel or door thickness is something you specify on the order rather than pick from a fixed list, since thru-bolt and back-to-back mounting both need fasteners sized to what they pass through. Measure the finished panel, including any applied appliance skin or overlay, and give that figure with the order so the correct fastener length ships. Concealed surface mounting avoids the question entirely, since nothing passes through the panel.

Brass, both the material and the substrate, so the finish is applied over brass rather than over a steel or zinc core. That matters on an appliance pull more than on a cabinet knob, because the bar takes body weight when someone yanks a loaded fridge door open, and brass will not rust at the fastener holes in a kitchen.