Selecting Pocket Door Hardware

1. Door Thickness

Required when ordering most passage and privacy lock sets, and when installing two flush pulls back-to-back. Make sure the combined depth of both flush pulls doesn't exceed the door thickness.

2. Trim Moulding Clearance

When trim is installed close to the door, pulls must clear it when sliding in and out. Most pulls require only 3/32" clearance on each side, but some require 1/8" or more. Always check the hardware's specified projection before ordering.

Privacy Lock Set

For bedroom and bathroom doors. A turn button on the inside latches the door from sliding, with an emergency release on the exterior — works just like a privacy lever on a swinging door.

Passage Set

No latching mechanism — just two flush pulls and an edge pull. For doors that don't need privacy: pantry, hall, and closet doors.

Keyed Lock Set

For secured locking with a key cylinder. Typically used on storage rooms and office doors that need to be locked from the outside.

Jamb Bolt

A great option if you've found the perfect flush pulls but still need privacy locking. The jamb bolt installs on the inside of the door and operates like a rocker switch, physically preventing the door from sliding back. Includes a strike plate and exterior emergency release trim.

Privacy with jamb bolts

Installing pocket door jamb bolts on each door is the simplest way to add privacy locking to double pocket doors.

Double pocket door privacy lock sets

One door is the active door containing the latching mechanism; the other is the inactive door with an edge pull, two flush pulls, and the strike plate. Instead of the strike going into the door frame as with a single door, it installs on the inactive door so both doors latch firmly together in the middle. The inactive door has no internal mechanism so it doesn't interfere with the strike.