SCHLAGE F40 FLA 716 CAM Camelot Collection Flair Privacy Lever, Aged Bronze

Good product easy to install

Needed to change knobs on door to easier operating lever style for physical reasons. They arrived within three days and I quickly and easily changed out all the knobs to the Schlage lever style. Each swap took approximately 10 minutes. Quality and operation is good. A Great Deal!

Only took a few minutes to install and works great. Smooth lever action, my old one was getting hard to use

I initially thought I could cut off a few bucks with Kwikset, but after testing at Home Depot, I learned Id rather pay extra for Schlage. These are superb and add so much to my doors in aesthetics. Then you turn the handle and can feel the sturdiness, which is so important. The tiny tough of aged bronze is just barely noticeable, but so nice! Replaced all my bedroom/bathroom doors with these.

These F series locks & lock sets were once called Schlages builder series; a step up from other brands but still affordable enough to be attractive in a builders budget. Were changing out all the locks & lock sets in our 29 year old 4 BDRM home. The Schladge products are a nice, but still affordable upgrade. We went with the Flair style lever handsets with chrome in the baths & laundry and aged bronze every where else. They have a nice solid feel to them and look great. This particular item is a surface mount dummy knob. We used them on linen closet doors with ball catches rather than a full lock set. They look like the real thing, but dont rotate. The ball catch is a separate product that is usually mounted in the top of the door with a strike in the top piece of door casing. Changing all the locks is a bigger job than you might think with mixed finishes, different styles of strikes, and hardest of all different diameters on the rosettes where the lock set halves attach to each other or, in the case of a dummy knob, attach to the door surface. Our original locks had larger diameter rosettes than the new ones so we had to sand down each door and repaint to make the impression line from the larger rosette disappear. The wood entry door had to be refinished at a local shop to get the stain colors to match at the rosettes. It all looks great, though Ive still got a couple of lock sets to go...

Matching product for pre-existing Schlage products, which we had. Only product of the line that is Right or Left, so make sure you order the correct one. Of the Flair line, these are the cheapest looking. Levers have slight amount of play during opening/closing. Not a big deal, just mentioning as I would prefer a completely solid feel. I have also mentioned about this Flair line, the screw holes are not hidden. So, to me, this makes them a middle grade cosmetically. Laminated finish. Looks fine from a distance and even up close. HOWEVER, installation can delaminate the coating around the screw holes. I installed these in place of the brass product present since new in 1993. Previously Schlage, too. Fit was almost perfect. Some screws were angled in the doors. This resulted in the heads of the screws contacting the escutcheon prior to fully seating into the screw hole. When this happened, it slightly dented the metal, delaminating the coating. Cannot see from a distance, but up close (and Im OCD) it is noticeable. Disappointing. Tip: Seat the screws into the screw holes PRIOR to engaging them into the previous holes. Start one, advance a bit, then start the other. If the screws are not parallel (and most are not), youll likely benefit from advancing each a bit at a time until the escutcheon is fully flush against the door.

Needed to upgrade a couple of builders door handles with privacy lock in my kids’ bedrooms. Went with the same brand for the nice look and this was the easiest, quickest install I ever did even with having to switch out one set of levers. This mama is happy with her purchase.

I have the Brookshire Privacy Flair lever. I bought 10 of them for my interior doors. They look great! My problem with them is that half of my latches make noise. This only matters if you are noise sensitive at night and preventing any noise. I slowly open the lever to prevent noise, but the latch hangs/catches then releases making a little snap sound of the latch. It happens to half of my order. Very annoying if you want a quiet door to open!

I found a handle similar at Lowes but it didnt match the other handles in my house. This one matched exactly. Im going to keep this sight in case I need others.

The oil-rubbed bronze finish is dark and classic. The Brookshire Rose rosette is elegant. We chose the Flair style scrolled handle. The Callington is also nice. It was tempting. But in the end, we chose the slightly thicker Flair style. The levers are solid and the latch is sturdy. We find that they wiggle a bit more than we expected, but this is not too bad. Reversing the handedness is a piece of cake. Incidentally, I installed half of my 30 levers backwards until I discovered from a dummy lever what I had done (dummy levers cannot be reversed). The lever should be installed (as depicted in the photo if I had bothered to look) with the curve looping up from the center and down and the outer end. This way, the users down-turned palm fits smoothly at the peak of the curve to push down the lever. It does not make a difference, of course, which way one orients the lever. It works both ways. Thinking of a right-handed lever as the face of a clock, one can pull the lever from 3 oclock to noon or from 3 oclock to six. Either way retracts the latch as well. As for that the latch retracts fully with slightly less than 90 degrees turn and springs back to its extended state fairly quietly, even when allowed to snap back freely (guaranteed, the kids are not going to guide the lever gently back in place). This gives it the feel of a sturdy lever. I expected the lever to be more substantial, but for the price, I cant complain. The design of the lever makes it foolproof to install (well, unless you install it upside down as I did). The lever is guaranteed to be perpendicular to the edge of the door with both levers aligned to each other, perpendicular to the rosettes behind them. [One has to be more careful with the dummy version to align the rosette and lever as this has no interlocking part on the other side of the door]. We use this passage lever to replace a Kwikset lever on our kitchen door. Compared to the Schlage, it was difficult to install and align, difficult to reverse handedness; it did not ever align with the strikeplate properly, and over a period of seven months had to be re-tightened several times and eventually the latch malfunctioned. In contrast, although this Schlage lever has only been in place for close to two months, it closes gently and perfectly (although installed in the exact same door and strikeplate position as the Kwikset. It is as tightly attached as the day we installed it. Only time will tell if the Aged Bronze finish stands up to the humid Florida weather. When we bought our house as a foreclosure, there were no interior doorknobs or levers. We searched and researched for several months to find just the right lever at a decent price (try explaining to guests why there is a circular hole in the bathroom door where the privacy knob should be). We wanted a lever that would convey both elegance and sturdiness. With our Schlage levers, we not only fulfilled that expectation, but got a quality functional mechanism that was very easy to install.