Trimco 1097VD Series Anti-Vandal Pull without Astragal

The Trimco 1097VD is an anti-vandal pull from the 1090 Series, built with no exposed handles or fasteners that can be tampered with. That is the whole point of it: on a school entry, a park restroom, or a strip mall back door, a conventional surface pull gives someone something to grab, pry, or unbolt. The 1090 Series design removes that and cuts down on trim damage. It is heavy duty and made from 1/8 inch material. If the door is not an abuse target, a standard straight pull like the Ives 8103HD 1 inch round through-bolted pull does the job with less hardware.

The 1097VD is the no-astragal configuration. An astragal covers the gap between a pair of doors or the lock edge; the 1090 Series is offered both with and without one. Order the 1097VD when the opening is a single door, or when the pair already has an astragal or a mullion doing that job. If the gap at the meeting stile needs covering as part of the same trim, you want the astragal version instead.

Both. The 1090 Series anti-vandal pulls mate to exit devices, mortise locks, or cylindrical locks, and they are made to suit in-swing and out-swing doors. That flexibility is the reason spec writers standardize on them across a building: the same trim family covers the panic-device exits and the mortise-locked office doors. You need to identify which lock or device it is mating to when ordering, since the pull is prepped to that hardware.

Yes, the 1097VD anti-vandal pull is ADA compliant, which is why it turns up on school, government, and public building openings where the entry hardware has to be operable without tight grasping or twisting. Among comparable pulls, the Ives 8145EZHD 45 degree offset pull is also ADA compliant if you need an offset shape instead.

That is the failure this pull is built against. The 1090 Series has no exposed handles or fasteners to tamper with, so there is nothing to unbolt or lever off, and it is a heavy duty item rather than a light commercial pull. Schools are one of the named applications, along with prisons, government facilities, retail and strip malls. A standard surface pull with visible through bolts, like the ABH AB7200, is fine on an interior office door but gives a vandal a target on a hard-use exterior opening.

Both swings. The 1090 Series pulls are available to mate different locksets and exit devices for in-swing and out-swing doors, so an out-swing exterior exit with a panic device is a standard application. Swing and the hardware it mates to are things you identify when you order, because the pull is made up to suit that combination.

The Trimco 1097VD is a heavy duty door pull with no exposed handles or fasteners that can be tampered with, mated to exit devices, mortise locks, or cylindrical locks. If the opening does not need the tamper-resistant construction, the Ives 8103HD is a heavy duty straight door pull with a 1 inch round bar and through bolt mounting, and the Ives 8102HD is a heavy duty straight pull with a 3/4 inch round bar and 1-1/2 inch clearance. Both are conventional exposed-bar pulls, so the grip is the handle itself rather than a recessed pull behind a full plate.

The Trimco 1097VD is ADA compliant and vandal resistant, built for schools, prisons, government facilities, and retail strip malls. Where vandalism is not the concern, the Ives 8145EZHD is a 45 degree offset door pull with heavy duty mounting hardware and is also ADA compliant. The 8145EZHD offsets the grip away from the door face; the 1097VD keeps the grip behind a protected trim with no exposed fasteners.

No. The Trimco 1097VD is engineered to mate to exit devices, mortise locks, and cylindrical locks, with no exposed handles or fasteners to tamper with. The Deltana SSPOBB24 is a 24 inch back-to-back modern offset pull and the SSPORBB24 is a 24 inch back-to-back round offset pull - both are pull-only sets mounted through the door on both faces, so they do not carry lock or exit device trim and they put fasteners and grips on both sides. The Deltana SSP1210 is a 12 inch contemporary pull for a single side. These are entrance pull hardware, not protective trim for a locked opening.

The 1090 Series pulls are made from 1/8 inch type 316 stainless steel, bronze or brass. Type 316 is the marine grade stainless, which is why these get specified on park and exterior public building doors rather than a plated pull. Substrate options on the 1097VD are bronze, brass and aluminum. Pick the finish to match the substrate you want on the opening.

Five finishes: 613 Oil Rubbed Bronze, 613E Dark Oxidized Satin Bronze, 622 Matte Black, 629 Bright Stainless Steel, and 630 Satin Stainless Steel. For matching existing openings in a commercial building, 630 satin stainless is the usual match to most contemporary lever and exit device trim, and 622 matte black is the one to pick when the storefront hardware is already black. 613 and 613E are both bronze but read differently, 613E being the darker oxidized version, so order the two doors of a pair in the same code.

Not necessarily. The 1097VD is a vandal-resistant trim that mates to an exit device, mortise lock, or cylindrical lock, and it is the choice when the door is an abuse target. If all you need is a cylinder pull for night latch function on a rim device, the Cal-Royal PUL-175 night latch cylinder pull is the dedicated part, 3-1/2 inch height in stainless steel. Decide by whether the opening needs vandal resistance or just the cylinder pull function.

That is what the 1090 Series is set up for. The same pull family mates to exit devices, mortise locks, and cylindrical locks, in-swing or out-swing, so a facility with panic hardware on the exits and mortise locks on the corridor doors can carry one trim look throughout. Order each door to the lock or device actually on it, and hold one finish code across the building so the openings match, choosing from 613, 613E, 622, 629 or 630.

The 1097VD is a straight anti-vandal pull without an astragal. For an offset grip, the Ives 8169 is a C style offset solid door pull with a 1 inch diameter and heavy duty mounting, and the ABH AB3310 is an offset flat end pull handle for surface mount. The ABH AB3330 is an offset round end pull available with custom length options if the opening calls for a length outside a stock pull.

They solve different problems. The Cal-Royal PUL-175 is a night latch cylinder pull, 3-1/2 inch height, stainless steel, which surrounds a rim cylinder so the door can be pulled shut and keyed from the outside. The Trimco 1097VD is a full anti-vandal pull built from 1/8 inch type 316 stainless steel, bronze or brass, sized to mate to a lockset or exit device and protect the trim on schools, prisons, and government facilities. If the opening only needs a small cylinder surround, the PUL-175 covers it; if the goal is protecting the whole trim area against tampering, that is the 1097VD.

The ABH AB7200 is a solid stainless steel flat end pull handle, 7/8 inch diameter, with through-bolt mounting, and the ABH AB3300 is a straight flat end pull handle with a 1 inch diameter for commercial doors. Both are plain bar pulls that fit interior and back-of-house openings. Reserve the Trimco 1097VD, which is heavy duty and vandal resistant in 1/8 inch type 316 stainless steel, bronze or brass, for the exterior and public-facing doors where trim damage is the risk.

The Trimco 1097VD comes in 613 Oil Rubbed Bronze, 613E Dark Oxidized Satin Bronze, 622 Matte Black, 629 Bright Stainless Steel, and 630 Satin Stainless Steel, so it covers dark bronze and black openings as well as stainless. Among the peers, the Emtek Art Nouveau 8 inch pull is lost wax cast bronze, while the ABH AB7200 and Cal-Royal PUL-175 are stainless steel construction. If the rest of the door hardware is dark bronze or black, the 1097VD carries those finishes directly.

For a back-to-back pull set on a thin door, the Deltana OHP620 off-set handle pull is a back-to-back set rated for a door thickness range of 1-1/8 inch to 1-3/8 inch. The Trimco 1097VD is a heavy duty anti-vandal pull built to mate to exit devices, mortise locks, or cylindrical locks on commercial openings, which is a different mounting arrangement than a back-to-back handle set.