PP2281 Framed Push Plate, Heavy-Duty, 3-1/2" x 20"

Mounting hardware ships in the bag with each plate. Deltana packs the PP2281 individually in a poly bag with its mounting hardware, and it is sold each, so one bag covers one door face. If you want a push plate on one side and a pull on the other, that is two separate orders.

Only if the stile is wider than 3-1/2 inches with room for the screws inside the glass stop. The PP2281 is 3-1/2 inches across, and a narrow stile aluminum door typically runs about 2 to 3-1/2 inches of face, so on most narrow stile storefront you will run off the stile or into the glazing. Measure the flat face of your stile first. On a wide stile aluminum or a solid wood or hollow metal door there is no issue.

For the pull leaf, the Trimco 1010 series cast pull plate is a heavy duty cast plate with a 5 inch center-to-center pull. Trimco also offers the 1012, a cast tapered heavy duty plate with a 5.5 inch center-to-center pull, and the 1013 round heavy duty plate with the same 5.5 inch center-to-center. Delaney's 3-1/2" x 15" pull plate is the direct partner to their 3-1/2" x 15" push plate if the whole opening is being done in one width. The Deltana PP2281 covers only the push side at 3-1/2" x 20".

The Deltana PP2281 is a 3-1/2" x 20" framed push plate in solid brass. When the stile will not take 20 inches, the Delaney 3-1/2" x 15" push plate holds the same 3-1/2 inch width and drops the height to 15 inches, so the mounting line and the visual proportion on the door stay close while the plate ends five inches shorter. Delaney also builds a 4" x 16" push plate if a slightly wider, shorter plate suits the opening better.

No, and the difference matters on a swing door. The Deltana PP2281 is a push plate, a flat protective plate for the push side of the door. The Ives 8302 is a heavy duty pull plate with through bolt mounting, meaning it carries a pull handle for the side the buyer draws the door open from. On a pair of doors both parts are often specified together, one per leaf, not one in place of the other. If the pull side is what needs covering, the Ives 8302 or the Ives 8303, which uses 8 inch or 10 inch center-to-center mounting, is the part to order.

Not as a substitute for device trim. The PP2281 is a plain framed push plate with no cutouts, so it mounts on blank door face only. If you need a plate that works with a Detex Value Series exit device, the Detex P/PN Series pull plate is built for that application. On a door where the exit device is on the pull side, the PP2281 still works fine on the push face above or below the device, as long as you have 3-1/2 by 20 inches of clear face to land it on.

Solid brass, 1.2 mm plate gauge, with a framed edge. That matters on a high traffic opening: a plated steel plate wears through to the base metal at the contact point, where a solid brass plate wears into the same material all the way through. Deltana rates the PP2281 as heavy-duty and commercial.

Five finishes: PVD Polished Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, and Polished Chrome. If you are standardizing a building, the PVD polished brass is the one to specify for lobby and entry doors that get cleaned often, since PVD is a deposited coating rather than a lacquer and will not lift the way lacquered brass does under repeated wiping.

A push plate like the PP2281 protects the door face and gives a clean target for a hand, and it sits flat against the door so nothing catches on a passing cart. A push bar stands off the door and gives you something to hit with a hip or forearm when your hands are full, which is why kitchens and service corridors use bars. For lobby, office, and restroom doors where the point is keeping fingerprints and scuffs off the finish, the flat plate is the right call. At 3-1/2 by 20 inches the PP2281 gives a tall strike zone, so it suits doors used by people of varying height.

For a shorter plate in the same 3-1/2 inch width, the Delaney 3-1/2 x 15 inch push plate drops the height by five inches. If you want more coverage across the door, the Delaney 4 x 16 inch push plate is a half inch wider. For a decorative look rather than a plain framed rectangle, Emtek offers push and pull plates in the Knoxville, Modern, and lost wax cast bronze Petal patterns. If the door needs a matched push and pull set, all of the Emtek and Delaney options come as push and pull plates.

No grip on it at all. The PP2281 is a push plate, a flat brass panel with a framed edge, so center-to-center does not apply. When the spec calls out a CTC dimension you are looking at a pull plate: the Ives 8303 offers 8 or 10 inch centers, the Trimco 1010 series is 5 inch CTC, and the Trimco 1012 and 1013 both run 5.5 inch CTC. The Trimco 1014 half-round is 6 inch CTC.

The Deltana PP2281 is a framed solid brass push plate in a plain rectangular profile, offered in PVD polished brass, oil rubbed bronze, brushed nickel, antique nickel and polished chrome. For a more ornamental treatment, Emtek offers push and pull plates in the Knoxville and Modern series, and a Petal series in lost wax cast bronze. Those are styled sets rather than a flat framed plate, so the visual weight on the door is different even where the function on the push side is the same.

Two, one per leaf. The PP2281 is sold each, individually bagged, so each order line covers a single door face. On a pair of doors where both leaves are pushed from the same side, that is two plates in the same finish. If the pair swings both ways or you want protection on the pull face as well, count four.