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Finding Top Quality Laundry and Trash Chute Handle Parts

Whether you have a commercial or residential building, having laundry and trash chutes are important tools that can help in improving the value of your space. They are vital to include into your living space as well to make it look pleasant enough and indeed functional. Nonetheless, if you have considered buying both laundry and trash chutes, you should make sure to do the research to fully understand what you are really going to purchase to make the most of your money.

Although laundry and trash chutes are very interesting, you should take into consideration how are you going to assemble and install it as well as making sure that what you are going to get is a top quality product that will serve for a long time. With the many laundry and trash chutes today you really need to pay attention to the specific size of the chutes and the materials they are made of. Accordingly, you should also take note of its different parts like the chute handle which you may need to replace in due time.

It is important to buy the best quality materials available, as this will reduce maintenance. Spending a little more in the short term will allow you to save more in the long run. We have a wide selection of trash and laundry chute parts for your living space. You can easily get replacement for the specific trash chute handle or laundry chute handle that you need from popular brands including US Chutes, Midland Chutes, Midland Metalcraft Chutes, Wester Chutes, Wilkinson Chutes Inc, Wilkinson Hi-Rise, and a lot more to choose from. You never have to look anywhere else if you need any chute parts because they are very much available on the internet. We guarantee full customer satisfaction as they are able to provide the most important information whenever they you need it.

Trash Chute Parts

Trash Chute Parts

T Handle Latch for trash and laundry chuteWith high rise apartments growing in parts of the city, the need for trash chutes are common which collects all the garbage of the huge building efficiently using large waste receptacles in the bottom. Since disposing trash off your homes paves way for a healthy environment, the trash chutes should be well maintained as faulty parts would disrupt the cleanliness of your apartment.

Keeping that in mind, we provide all the trash chute parts that would help you and your technician to fix the faulty chute system. Some of them are the following:

ADA lever handles – Suitable for both the bottom hinged and side hinged chute doors, this type of ADA handle is made of cast metal with a polished chrome finish which come along with a “key alike” cylinder and 2 functional keys.

T handles – We provide one of the best and most popular T – handles which suit both the bottom and side hinged chute doors. The bright chrome finish handles has the V spindle along with 2 keys.

Latch chute parts – We meet all the requirements in the latch accessories segments, which are said to trigger the closure and opening of the chute doors efficiently. The thumb latch triggers available with us would perfectly fit the Wilkinson Chutes Hi-Rise intake doors.

Gas and hydraulic closer – The closure of the chute doors is either made functional using gas closures or hydraulic ones depending on the size of the chute doors. Both the variants are available in 10 inches especially for bottom hinged doors. The gas closure also has a 17.2 inch provision which serves bigger chute doors.

Fusible link kit – Mainly present to prevent any spreading of fire from one level of the apartment to another, the trash chute parts like the fusible links are available as kits that comes with 2 hooks and the chain which melt at 165 degrees.

Having a wide range of trash chute parts and Laundry chute parts,  Chute Parts Online is one of the best places to purchase quality parts for your chute system.

Night Latch Keeper Kit (FAQ)

Night Latch Keeper - Wilkinson Hopper discharge door. Slam latchWe had a customer ask “Does your laundry hopper discharge chute door latch have a UL listing for use with fire doors?

Good question. Standard parts like this Night Latch Keeper do not have a UL stamp or label individually.  All our parts have been approved to work in conjunction with our Fire rated and UL listed hoppers, and intake doors.  This latch is the same latch that is on our UL listed hopper door.

Standard discharge handle that fits most hoppers including Midland Chutes hoppers

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Wilkinson Chutes Type discharge handle

We invite you to ask your questions, and we promise to share any frequently asked questions on this blog post.

Backset Tubular Latch Assembly

When selecting a latch for your trash chute door or laundry chute intake door, pay careful attention to the latch.  There are basically two types of latches as listed below:

1)    1 3/4″ Backset Tubular Latch Assembly is the standard latch for the majority of manufactured doors.  This 1 3/4″ Latch fits Wilkinson Chutes Side Hinged T-Handles, L Handle (ADA), and Thumb Latch Trigger handles.  For the rest of the manufacturers including Midland Chutes, this 1 3/4″ backset tubular latch assembly is suitable for both bottom hinged and side hinged doors.  This is the most common latch and is suitable for about 90% of all handles.

2)    1 11/16″ Backset Tubular Latch Assembly is typically only for a bottom hinged Wilkinson Chutes type doors including the T Handle, L Handle (ADA) or Thumb Larch Trigger.

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