Kick plates, pulls and door accessories

Door accessories for existing openings

Door accessories are the plates, pulls and bolts that finish an opening: kick and push plates protect the door face, pulls open it, and flush bolts hold the inactive leaf of a pair.

Pulls, push and kick plates, flush bolts and panic shields that finish a commercial opening and protect the door.

They are easy to forget until the new lock or closer is already on the door, so add them to the same quote.

How it is specified

• Pulls and push plates. Sized by center to center dimension and by how the pull mounts.
• Kick plates. Sized to the door width, push side or pull side, and made 6 to 12 inches high; taller plates are armor plates.
• Flush bolts. Flush bolts secure the inactive leaf of a pair of doors at the head and the foot.
• Panic shields. A panic shield covers the gap at the door edge so the push bar of an exit device cannot be worked from outside.

Door kick plate sizes, pulls and flush bolts

What usually fails

Plates screwed over a damaged door tend to loosen, and the fix is a longer fastener rather than a bigger plate. A flush bolt that no longer engages is usually a dropped inactive leaf or a strike that has moved.

Measure the door width and thickness and tell us the finish already on the opening, so the new part matches the hardware that is staying.