Pro-Lok EDL-100 - Door Guard Swing Bar

No. The Pro-Lok EDL-100 swing bar door guard works on in-opening doors only, because the bar must swing across the interior face of the door and drop over a peg on the frame. For an out-swinging opening you need a different style of secondary latch rather than a swing bar guard.

The Delaney Safety Door Guard, part number DLY-465800, is the closest alternative. It is a door guard from Delaney Hardware's Safety Door Guard series with a ball bearing design. The Pro-Lok EDL-100 uses a 2-1/2 inch by 4 inch heavy-duty steel swing bar and peg and ships with installation hardware, in brass or chrome finish. Both are surface-mounted door guards intended to let a door open a few inches for viewing or ventilation.

It is a residential-duty guard. Pro-Lok classes the EDL-100 as residential, so it suits apartment units, rental houses and hotel-style guest doors where a tenant wants to open the door a few inches to see or talk to someone. For high-traffic commercial entrances, look at heavier commercial secondary hardware instead.

The swing bar and peg measure 2-1/2 x 4 inches and are heavy-duty steel. The brass substrate finish sits over that steel body, so you get a metal bar rather than a stamped or plastic guard.

No extra hardware needed. The EDL-100 ships with its installation hardware, and Pro-Lok publishes an installation guide for it. One guard covers one door leaf, so order by the door count if you are doing a whole building.

The Pro-Lok EDL-100 is a swing bar type: a pivoting steel bar drops over a peg on the door, and you swing it clear to open fully. The Delaney Safety Door Guard is a ball bearing style guard, where the arm rides a captured ball rather than lifting off a peg. Both restrict the door to a partial opening; the swing bar is the pattern most tenants already recognise from apartment and hotel doors.

Yes, and it is the usual upgrade. A chain guard relies on a light chain and a slide plate; the EDL-100 uses a heavy-duty steel bar and peg in a 2-1/2 x 4 inch footprint, mounted with the hardware in the box. Same in-swing doors only requirement applies to both.

The Pro-Lok EDL-100 swing bar door guard is designated for residential use. Its heavy-duty steel bar and peg suit apartment and single-family entry doors where a resident wants a few inches of viewing or ventilation. For openings that need a commercial-duty secondary device, specify hardware designated commercial rather than this guard.

The Pro-Lok EDL-100 swing bar door guard is offered in a brass finish and a chrome finish, so you can pair it with either warm-tone or bright-tone existing trim, and the part itself is a brass substrate. If you are standardizing across a building, choosing one finish for all units keeps the swing bars uniform with the locksets already on the doors.