Rockwood 487 Heavy Duty Wall Stop

The 487 projects 3-3/4 inches from the wall face. That projection is what determines how far the door swings before it hits the bumper, so measure from your finished wall to the point on the door leaf you want stopped. If the lever or pull sticks out further than 3-3/4 inches, the trim contacts the wall before the stop does and you need a longer projection stop instead.

It ships with fasteners: 3 each #10 x 1 inch flat head sheet metal screws and 3 plastic anchors. Those anchors are drywall hardware. For concrete, CMU, or tile-over-masonry you will want to supply your own masonry anchors, and for drywall over studs hitting solid blocking is always better than relying on the plastic anchors alone, since a wall stop takes the full impact of the door.

Among heavy duty wall stops, the Ives WS11 and the Ives WS33/WS33X are both listed as heavy duty with replaceable rubber bumpers, and the WS11 is rated for drywall and masonry. The ABH RM and RMS Series wall stops come in multiple length options, which is the route to take if 3-3/4 inches of projection is not enough to clear your door trim. The Emtek 2255 brass wall bumper and the Sure-Loc wall bumper are residential-weight parts and are not a swap for a commercial cast brass stop.

The Ives WS11 is the closest straight equivalent. Both are heavy duty wall stops with a rubber bumper: the Rockwood 487 is solid cast brass with a rubber bumper and a 3-3/4 inch projection, and the Ives WS11 is a heavy duty wall stop with a replaceable rubber bumper rated for drywall and masonry. The Ives WS33 is a second heavy duty wall stop option with a replaceable rubber bumper. If the maintenance crew wants to swap the bumper rather than the whole stop, the Ives units call out that the bumper is replaceable.

The 487 is a wall stop only - it cushions the door at the end of its swing and releases it. For a door that has to be held open, look at the Ives WS20 manual wall holder, which uses a hinged strike on the door, or the Ives WS40 automatic wall holder with a heavy duty bumper pad. Those are hold-open devices rather than stops, so the door latches into the holder until it is released.

The Rockwood 487 mounts to the wall and needs solid backing behind the strike point, and it ships with three #10 x 1 inch flat head sheet metal screws and three plastic anchors. Where the door swings past the wall or into open space, use a baseboard or floor-type stop instead: Delaney offers a 3 inch heavy duty rigid door stop and a 3 inch spring door stop, both of which mount low on the wall or base rather than at door-knob height.

Solid cast brass with a rubber bumper. The 487 is cast brass throughout rather than a stamped or plated steel shell, which is why it holds up in corridors and entries where a stop gets kicked and struck repeatedly.

The 487 uses a sloping body specifically to resist vandalism. A flat-faced or straight cylindrical stop gives a foot or a pry bar something to grab; the slope sheds that load. Rockwood hardware is specified across institutional buildings, offices, retail, educational, detention, sports facilities, hotels and restaurants, and the 487 is a commercial-rated stop, not a residential one.

The body mounts with three #10 x 1 inch flat head sheet metal screws, which will drive into a masonry anchor set in block or concrete, but the included anchors are plastic drywall anchors. Drill and set proper masonry anchors sized to the #10 screw. If you want a stop supplied for both conditions out of the box, the Ives WS11 is listed for drywall and masonry.

The 487 has a three-hole pattern on a 2-1/4 x 3 inch base, so it will only line up with an existing stop by coincidence. Plan on new holes. The base area is large enough to conceal small legacy holes that fall inside that footprint; anything outside it needs patching, or a hole plate cover like the Delaney 2-1/8 inch metal cover if the old hole is larger.

No. The Delaney 2-1/8 inch hole plate metal cover is a cover plate for an unused bore or damaged opening in a surface - it absorbs nothing. The Rockwood 487 is a wall stop, solid cast brass with a rubber bumper and a sloping body that resists vandalism, meant to take the impact of the door. The hole plate is what you order to patch the wall after an old stop comes out, not what replaces the stop.