Rockwood 468 Heavy Duty Door Stop

No screws or anchors. The 468 sets into the floor: drill a 1-1/2 inch diameter hole 7 inches deep and fill it with anchoring grout around the stop's shank. That means there are no exposed fasteners on the finished install, so there is nothing to unscrew or pry. Plan for it at the concrete, not as an afterthought, since a 7 inch deep core is not something you drill in a finished slab casually.

That is what it is built for. The 468 is grouted into the floor with no exposed fasteners, which is the reason it is called out for high vandalism and security areas, and it is accepted by the New York State Office of Mental Health for use in high risk areas. Nothing on it comes apart with a tool from the occupied side.

The 468 stands 3 inches high with a 2 inch diameter. Measure your undercut before you commit: if the door bottom clears the floor by more than 3 inches the stop will pass under it, and if you have a floor covering going in later, the finished floor height eats into that 3 inches. On a standard commercial door with a normal undercut, 3 inches puts the rubber bumper on the door face well below the lock.

Stop only. The 468 is a floor stop with a rubber bumper, so it arrests the door swing and protects the wall and the lever, but it will not keep the door standing open. If you need the door to stay put, look at a holder instead: the Ives FS40 / FS41 / FS42 / FS43 automatic floor stop and holder, or the SOSS MDH magnetic door holder and stop.

A grouted stop is off the table on a post-tension slab, over a topping, or in a tenant space you cannot core, since the 468 needs a 1-1/2 inch diameter hole 7 inches deep. Surface-fastened options that go on the finished floor include the Ives FS18S/FS18L security floor stop for a secure opening, the Ives FS17 heavy duty brass floor dome stop, or the Orca 23LP Series low rise dome floor stop where door clearance is tight.

The Rockwood 468 is a wrought stainless steel floor stop with a black rubber bumper that sets into a 1-1/2 inch diameter by 7 inch deep drilled hole filled with anchoring grout, so nothing exposed can be unscrewed or pried. The nearest peer built for the same intent is the Ives FS18S/FS18L security floor stop, also a heavy duty floor stop. Both are the answer when a standard screw-down dome stop keeps getting removed; the Rockwood 468 stands 3 inches high with a 2 inch diameter, which is the profile to check against door undercut before you commit either way.

The Rockwood 468 requires drilling a 1-1/2 inch diameter by 7 inch deep hole and filling it with anchoring grout, which is a slab operation you may not want on a finished floor. If surface mounting is preferred, the Ives FS13 heavy-duty brass floor dome stop with replaceable rubber bumper and the Ives FS17 heavy-duty brass floor dome stop with rubber bumper are both heavy duty dome stops, and the FS13 takes a replaceable bumper if the tip is the part that wears in your traffic. The Orca Hardware 23LP Series is a low rise dome floor stop with a gray tip for openings where a taller stop would foul the door swing.

The Rockwood 468 is a floor stop only, so it arrests the swing and nothing more. When the door has to hold open, the Ives FS40 / FS41 / FS42 / FS43 automatic floor stop and holder offers adjustable door-to-floor clearance, the Orca Hardware 22HD Series goose neck floor stop with black tip is catalogued as a door holder, and the SOSS MDH is a magnetic door holder and stop measuring 3-5/16 by 1-3/4 inches. All three are heavy duty where the Ives and SOSS units are concerned; the trade is that a holder has moving or magnetic parts on the floor, where the 468 has no exposed fasteners at all.

Wrought stainless steel body with a black rubber bumper, supplied in US32D satin stainless. Stainless with a grouted-in base and no fasteners gives you nothing to corrode loose, which is why it reads well in shower rooms, pool decks, entries and other wash-down areas where a brass or plated stop on screws eventually loosens.

Mounting method, mostly. The Ives FS13 is a heavy duty brass floor dome stop with a replaceable rubber bumper that fastens to the surface of the floor, so it goes in fast and comes back out if the door swing changes. The Rockwood 468 is stainless, grouted into a 1-1/2 inch by 7 inch cored hole with no exposed fasteners, so it is permanent and it defeats tampering. Pick the FS13 for a normal office or retail opening, the 468 where the stop itself is a target.

Yes, and that is a common reason to reach for a floor stop. A wall bumper needs solid backing behind the drywall at the strike point; the 468 takes the impact at the floor instead, so nothing has to be blocked in the partition. The tradeoff is the 3 inch high stop sitting in the traffic path, which matters in a corridor or a mopped area.

The 468 is described as a stainless steel body with a black rubber bumper, and the whole assembly is grouted in with no exposed fasteners, so treat it as a permanent unit rather than a serviceable one. If field-replaceable rubber is what you are after, the Ives FS13 heavy duty brass floor dome stop is specifically a replaceable-bumper design.

Handing and door thickness are not a factor. The 468 sits in the floor and the door face strikes the bumper, so it works on left or right hand doors, single or pairs, wood or hollow metal, at any leaf thickness. What you do have to get right is the location: set the stop where the door face lands at the open angle you want, and keep the 3 inch high body clear of the swing path of the adjacent leaf on a pair.

No. The Deltana UFB4505 round universal floor door bumper at 1-1/2 inch, the UFBP4505 pattern cap bumper at 1-5/8 inch, the UFBS138 square bumper at 1-3/8 inch and the Emtek 2254 floor door bumper at 1-3/8 by 1-1/4 inch are low-profile bumpers meant to cushion a door where it lands. The Rockwood 468 is a 3 inch tall stainless steel unit grouted into the slab and carries a black rubber bumper on a wrought stainless body, built for high vandalism or security areas. If someone is prying stops off the floor, a decorative brass bumper is not the swap.

The Rockwood 468 is a commercial stop accepted by the New York State Office of Mental Health for use in high risk areas, which is more stop than a low-traffic office or apartment door needs. Simpler dome and gooseneck options include the Delaney dome door stop and the Delaney gooseneck floor door stop, the Emtek 2251 half dome door stop and the Emtek 2253 goose style door stop, and the Emtek 2257 cylindrical floor bumper at 1-1/2 inch. A gooseneck reaches out from the wall or floor to catch the door face; a dome sits in the door's path where it lands.

The Rockwood 468 comes in US32D on a wrought stainless steel body, so it reads as brushed stainless against the floor. Where the rest of the trim is brass, the Deltana UFBD3505 is a 3-1/2 inch round universal floor bumper with a decorative solid brass finish, the UFB4505 is the plain 1-1/2 inch solid brass round, and the Ives FS13 and FS17 are heavy-duty brass floor dome stops. Note that the brass Deltana units are bumpers rather than security stops, so the finish match comes with a different level of abuse resistance than the grouted-in 468.

The Rockwood 468 stands 3 inches high with a 2 inch diameter, so on a thin door with tight undercut you want to confirm the strike point on the door face. The Orca Hardware 22HD Series goose neck floor stop with black tip lists a door thickness range of 1-3/8 inch or 1-3/4 inch and functions as a door holder, and the Orca 23LP Series dome floor stop is a low rise unit with a gray tip for the same situation without the holder function.

US32D only, satin stainless steel. There is one model, the 468-RKW, so there is no finish or size decision to make on the order. US32D is the standard institutional finish, so it lines up with satin stainless push plates, pulls and hinges already on most commercial openings.

It is a commercial part, and Rockwood hardware of this kind goes into institutional buildings, offices, retail, schools, detention, sports facilities, hotels and restaurants. The grouted install and stainless construction are aimed at abuse-level traffic, not a house. For a residential entry, a solid brass floor bumper such as the Deltana UFB4505 or the Emtek 2251 half dome stop is the more usual choice.

The 468 stops the leaf at the floor and takes the impact off the wall and the lever trim, but it does nothing to control the speed of the swing. On a heavy or wind-loaded opening, pair it with a closer that has its own backcheck, otherwise the door reaches the stop at full speed and the 3 inch stainless body transfers that load straight into the bottom rail of the door. For an existing overhead stop or hold-open arm, the 468 is a backup limit, not a replacement.

The Rockwood 468 carries a black rubber bumper on a wrought stainless body and is grouted into the slab, so the body is meant to stay put for the life of the opening. Among the peers, the Ives FS13 heavy-duty brass floor dome stop is specified with a replaceable rubber bumper, while the Ives FS17 heavy-duty brass floor dome stop is listed with a rubber bumper. For a facility standardizing on one stop across many doors, that distinction is worth settling before you buy the quantity.