Schaub 5118AB 18" Center to Center Pub House Backplate for Appliance Pull

That's exactly what it's sized for. The 5118AB Pub House backplate is drilled 18 inches center to center, so it mounts behind an appliance pull with 18 inch hole spacing. If your pull measures anything other than 18 inches between post centers, the holes won't line up and you need the backplate that matches your pull's spacing.

The 5118AB is the backplate only, the decorative plate that sits between the pull and the appliance panel. The 18 inch appliance pull is a separate order. Match it on two things: an 18 inch center-to-center pull, and the same finish code you pick here.

Solid brass is the base material, then finished in the plating you choose. On a refrigerator or panel-ready dishwasher the plate takes the hand contact and the cleaning that a cabinet door never sees, so the difference between a cast brass plate and a thin stamped one shows up in a couple of years of a busy kitchen.

Mechanically you don't need one, the pull mounts on its own. A backplate does two jobs: it covers old holes or damaged finish from a pull that came off, and it gives a wide 19-1/2 inch decorative band across the appliance face instead of two bare posts. On a remodel where the previous pull had different hole spacing, the plate is often what saves you from refacing the panel, as long as the old holes fall inside the 19-1/2 inch footprint.

It's part of Schaub's Pub House collection in a contemporary style, so it's built to run with the rest of the Pub House knobs, pulls and appliance pulls. For a property manager or designer standardizing a kitchen, keep the collection and the finish code consistent across the run and the plating and profile will read as one set.