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Keep Your Home Cool with Sing Core

As temperatures begin to rise, many homeowners struggle to keep their homes cool and comfortable. High energy bills, drafty doors and windows, and inefficient air conditioning systems can all contribute to a hot and uncomfortable living environment. Fortunately, there is a solution that can help keep your home cool and comfortable all summer long – Sing Core door panels.

Sing Core panels are a revolutionary product that combines strength, durability, and insulation properties. These panels are made from a patented honeycomb core that is sandwiched between two layers of material, creating a lightweight and incredibly strong panel. But what makes Sing Core door panels truly unique is their insulation properties. The honeycomb core is made up of tons of small insulation pockets that trap air and provide exceptional temperature retention, helping to keep your home cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

So how can Sing Core door panels help improve your home and keep your house cool as temperatures rise? Here are a few ways:

Energy Efficiency

One of the main benefits of Sing Core door panels is their energy efficiency. Traditional doors are often made from materials that provide little to no insulation, allowing hot air to enter your home and cool air to escape. Sing Core panels, on the other hand, are highly insulated and can help to prevent air leakage, reducing the amount of energy needed to cool your home. This can lead to lower energy bills and a more comfortable living environment.

 

Customizable Options

Sing Core door panels are highly customizable, allowing you to choose from a variety of materials, finishes, and styles. This means that you can choose a panel that not only provides excellent insulation properties but also matches the style of your home. Whether you prefer the look of natural wood or the sleekness of aluminum, Sing Core panels can be customized to fit your needs. This also allows you to get a custom sized or fit door for your specific frame, providing insulation in a scenario that traditional methods may not be able to.

Durability

Sing Core panels are incredibly strong and durable, making them an excellent choice for exterior doors. They can withstand harsh weather conditions, including extreme temperatures, high winds, and heavy rain, without warping or failing. Our panels even come with a 50 Year Warp Free and Structural Guarantee, meaning you can trust them to provide long-lasting protection and insulation for your home.

Noise Reduction

In addition to their insulation properties, Sing Core panels also provide excellent noise reduction. The honeycomb core helps to absorb sound waves, reducing the amount of noise that enters your home. This can be especially beneficial if you live in a noisy neighborhood or near a busy street.

Easy Installation

Finally, Sing Core door panels are easy to install, making them a convenient and hassle-free solution for homeowners. They can be installed in many different ways to suit your needs, allowing for a quicker, easier, and better door.

In conclusion, Sing Core door panels are an innovative and effective solution for keeping your home cool and comfortable as temperatures rise. With their insulation properties, customizable options, durability, noise reduction, and easy installation, they are a smart investment for any homeowner looking to improve the energy efficiency and comfort of their home. Whether you’re looking to replace your exterior doors, update your interior doors, or improve the insulation of your home, Sing Core panels are a great choice.

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“I look forward to using them again.” – Sing Core 7 Door Order Review

Sing Core Customer Testimonial

At Sing Core, we value a job well done and the kind words of our customers. This customer was pleased enough with their order to leave a review, and we’re grateful to them for doing so! Here’s what they had to say:

“As an Architect, I engaged Sing Core to produce large scale slabs for seven pivot doors for an artist’s studio.  The doors were of a scale and proportion that required a core that was light, stable and would not warp.  Singcore was able to produce what we needed in a timely manner.  The product was cost effective given the scale and quantity.  Our millworker found the product easy to work with and was able to install all required hardware effectively as Singcore provided all the requested blocking and made it easy to coordinate.

I look forward to using them again.”

The Order

This was a large order, consisting of seven large paint grade doors. The order was placed by an architect who was working on a large scale project, and they were very pleased with the product they received.

The order was mostly comprised of 96” x 60” x 3” panels, all professional grade and ready for paint. The doors were built to be put in an artist studio in Chicago as pivot doors, and the installation team did an amazing job finishing and mounting these beautiful doors.


Why Sing Core?

Sing Core panels are used for a variety of doors between many different sizes, and due to our patented honeycomb core they work particularly well for large doors. This, among other reasons, is why the client went with Sing Core for their project. With as many large doors as they were making, they needed to ensure each one had the qualities that Sing Core promises with each one of our panels. Those qualities include strength, durability, a lightweight nature, and remaining warp free.

As large doors, these would be particularly prone to warping due to their increased surface area. A warped door causes a number of issues, sometimes up to complete failure of the door and damage to the nearby area. Since these were put into an artist studio, they needed to be able to withstand constant traffic, equipment movement, and more without failing. Sing Core panels are impact resistant, long lasting, and guaranteed warp free. In fact, every door panel we produce comes with a 50 Year Warp-Free and Structural Guarantee to ensure you never have to worry about these issues. For a seven door order of large doors, the client was very pleased with the warranty, as well as the end result and quality of the delivered product.

How Can You Get Sing Core Doors?

If you want to get Sing Core doors for your next big project, feel free to submit a quote request on our website! We’d be more than happy to discuss details with you and get you an estimate. Whether your project calls for one door, seven, or even more, Sing Core promises quality and a long life on our products!

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Remodel Season, Sing Core, and You

Remodel Season

As we get further into spring, the days are getting warmer and longer, and people are beginning to get outside more for both work and play. There is one incredibly popular thing people choose to do universally around this time of year, though, and that is to remodel their home.

Remodeling a house during the winter can be difficult, between being uncomfortable in the cold, riskier projects given freezing temperatures, and overall less product availability. When spring hits, however, many people go into a remodel frenzy, and Sing Core is here to help!

How Sing Core Can Help

It’s no secret that renovating a home or office can be a daunting task. Whether you’re going it alone or working with contractors, there are still many different things that need to be done well in order to pull off a successful remodel. Depending on your goals, you may find that you need custom door or wall panels for your build, and that’s where Sing Core comes in!

Our door and wall panels are the best in the industry, and can be used for a variety of applications. Interior doors, exterior doors, custom shaped or large doors, easy to install and movable walls, countertops, tables, and more are all options when it comes to Sing Core panels. Our panels can be made to nearly any size, fitting whatever need you have!

Why Use Sing Core?

Aside from the variety of uses for Sing Core panels, they also have a number of benefits. The main features of our products are being lightweight, incredibly strong and sturdy, and being 100% warp free. Our patented and patent-pending technology allows us to create high end, custom, and one of a kind doors, among other things. Our Sing honeycomb core provides great strength and durability, while also remaining incredibly lightweight. Usually, a custom door will be made of bulky and heavy materials, though that doesn’t always mean “good” materials. Sing Core panels are made of high end hardwood panels, insulated with construction grade foam, and reinforced with our one-of-a-kind honeycomb core. Then you have the option of putting a skin on your door, such as wood staves, metal sheeting, and more, which just further improves its strength, design, and durability.

In addition, every one of our doors comes with a 50 Year Warp-Free and Structural Guarantee, so you can stay confident in your purchase for decades to come. Very rarely can someone make a claim such as this, but we’re confident in our product and its resilience. A warped door can be a huge problem, and all door types are susceptible to warping given their large, flat sides. Sing Core, however, has perfected the way of making warp-free doors so that you never have to worry about your front door warping and letting in all the cold air, or a sliding door warping and never closing right again.

If you want to take your renovation to the next level, contact Sing Core and request a quote for your custom door or wall panel today!

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The Importance of Lightweight Doors

Why Lightweight Doors Matter

When it comes to large, thick, or custom doors, weight matters a lot. A heavy door can be unwieldy, awkward, or hard to use. In addition, the heavier a door gets, the more complications can arise. These complications can range from minor inconveniences to major failures within the door itself, but regardless, they compromise the quality and function of your door. That’s why we suggest using Sing Core for your large or custom doors, as we make the best lightweight and strong door on the market.

Heavy Door Complications

It’s no stretch of logic to assume that the heavier a door gets, the more risk it poses in a variety of ways. Common issues with heavy doors include difficulty installing or using them, extra strain on hardware, and higher risk of injury. A large, hefty door may sound appealing, but when the mounting hardware bends or breaks under the weight, many things can happen. In the best case scenario, you have to take the door down and replace the hardware. In the worst case scenario, someone can get severely injured. In order to avoid this risk, you need to use heavier grade hardware, which can get increasingly expensive and difficult to come by depending on your door.

Light Door Solutions

If a heavy door causes many problems, then a light door should prevent them. Luckily, it does, and Sing Core doors are the best when it comes to keeping things light and strong. A lighter door has far less wear on its hardware, is much easier to install and operate, and can make the entire process of choosing and installing your custom or large door a lot more enjoyable. For one, you won’t need a team of 8 people to move the giant slab of wood. With a lightweight Sing Core door, you can often transport it with just a handful of people. Plus, with Sing Core doors, you don’t sacrifice strength for weight. Our panels are made with our patented and patent-pending honeycomb core, meaning they remain strong, sturdy, and guaranteed to never warp.

Large Doors

The biggest doors are often the heaviest, and that’s something else Sing Core is great for. Aside from just being lightweight, Sing Core panels provide additional securities when it comes to your large or custom door. The biggest concern with large doors is warping, as the larger surface area is prone to it. Sing Core’s honeycomb panels prevent warping, and we’re so confident in that statement that we offer a 50 Year Warp-Free Guarantee on all of our panels. A warped door can fundamentally ruin a door’s function, structural integrity, and more, and very few door makers can claim their product is free of that concern. Our warranty also promises the structural integrity of your door, so you also never have to worry about that.

Consider using Sing Core for your large, custom, or even standard door project. Interior doors, exterior doors, pivot, sliding, and more are all available through Sing Core.

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Hinged Doors vs Pivot Doors, Which is Better?

Hinged Door vs Pivot Door

Many different styles and designs fill the door industry, and two of the most popular are hinged doors and pivot doors. They may sound similar, but they have fundamental differences in their operation and design that set them apart. Both are great options, but let’s go over what each style is, and when you may or may not want to use it.

What is a Hinged Door?

This is what most people think of first when they think of a door. The classic barrier held up on 2-3 hinges on one side. These doors are the classic choice for a reason; they’re easy and they work. Hinged doors have been around since 1600 B.C., over 3,600 years ago. The hinges attach to both the wall and the door itself, allowing it to swing open and shut freely. There are many benefits to hinge doors, one of which being how universally understood they are. Hinged doors can usually be installed rather easily, are simple to operate, and most maintenance can be done by the home or business owner. In addition, for many small to standard sized doors, hinges work great.

The downsides to hinged doors mostly revolve around the hardware and opening mechanics. Hinges have several points where they can bend, break, or seize up, and that would cause the door to cease operating or be severely limited in its functionality. The door rests entirely suspended by the hinges. This means there is constant pressure pulling away from them, and depending on the size and weight of your door, this can turn into a big problem. A squeaky hinge is one thing, but a broken hinge causes the door to be completely inoperable in some cases, and usually leads to the other hinges breaking soon due to the increased weight on them.

Hinged doors are still fantastic options for many situations, but when it comes to large and heavy doors, they present some potential problems.

What is a Pivot Door?

Pivot doors at first seem to function much like hinged doors. They pivot open from one side, and can look nearly identical. However, where hinged doors use hinges to mount to the wall, pivot doors have a slightly more unique mechanic.

Pivot doors usually are mounted from the top and bottom near one side of the door, as opposed to the side. This attachment can be imagined as a pole running through the door, and the door rotates around said pole. This is just a simple explanation, though, as pivot doors can be attached in many different ways. A pivot door opens up in a similar fashion to the hinged door, but is often far smoother to operate and present a more unique visual, given the door is actually rotating away from the wall on both sides.

Pivot doors are much more stable choices when it comes to large and heavy doors, and standard sized doors as well. Because they are not attached and completely suspended from one side, they have far less impact on their hardware. In addition, pivot doors are usually made with more resilient hardware to begin with, so your door will remain beautiful and functional for a very long time.

The downsides of a pivot door mainly revolve around the maintenance and installation, as they are far more specialized entryways. Pivot doors often need a trade professional to install, and should anything happen to the door, maintaining its operating point can be far more difficult.

To alleviate the problem with both doors, we suggest using Sing Core for your pivot and hinged door panels! The lightweight and resilient nature of Sing Core significantly lowers the risk associated with these doors and leaves you with a fantastic door guaranteed for 50 Years.

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Innovate Your Build with Sing Core

Innovative Design Possibilities with Sing Core

A door says a lot about your home or office, and designers are creating the biggest, best, and most beautiful door designs for their projects. Many of these grand doors use Sing Core panels due to their strength, lightweight nature, and customizability. Let’s go over some of the best doors made with Sing Core.

Massive Pink Door

This huge door was installed in a luxury home, and stands 13 feet tall and 3 feet wide. This beautiful door features a hardwood frame and was crafted to artisanal quality. This door operates as a hinged door, and can be easily opened and closed despite its size due to the lightweight nature of Sing Core panels. Due to this, the hinges will last far longer than they would with a traditional heavy door. Between the excellent quality, long life span, and the beautiful work done by the architect and design team, this bright door will bring color and life to the residence for an incredibly long time.

Large Gray Door

This massive pivot door is 5 foot 3 inches wide and nearly 10 feet tall. It serves as the exterior door to a home, and offers a huge entryway that is not common with traditional doors. The door swings open as a pivot door, similar to a hinge door, but the hardware usually attaches to the top and bottom of the door as opposed to mounted on the side. Sing Core panels work very well for pivot doors, as their customizable design can be made to account for the different hardware. This door’s massive size would lead to it being incredibly heavy and hard to operate with other building methods, but with Sing Core it remains easy to use and looking great.

Laserfiche Sliding Doors

The Laserfiche California Headquarters worked with Sing Core to make several doors for their offices, this large set of corner sliding doors being the highlight piece. This high end large door slides back along the squared walls to reveal the room within, opening up a huge entryway. It can also be closed to seal the room off in a box manner. Sing Core panels work especially well for sliding doors, as their combination of unique hardware and function, plus the limitations that are put in place by the mechanisms present many challenges when it comes to weight and size. A set of sliding doors of this size would certainly be unwieldy, require even more expensive hardware, and would have many other drawbacks. With Sing Core, these doors remain light and easy to use despite their size, and as such easily roll along their tracks to open and close.

Sing Core is proud to be involved in so many important projects, and we are confident that our panels allow more innovative and fun designs. Whether you’re working on a large door, custom shaped door, or a door with any other number of features, contact Sing Core to learn how we can enhance your project and build the best door together.

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Lifespan of Sing Core Panels

The Lifespan of a Sing Core Panel

Sing Core panels are strong, lightweight, and built to last, but people often wonder how long they can expect their Sing Core panel to hold up? Whether you use Sing Core for doors, walls, or any other creative purpose, you can trust our product to stand the test of time.

50 Year Guarantee

All Sing Core panels come with a 50 Year Warp-Free and Structural Guarantee, though we do not consider this to be the limit to their lifespan. While we guarantee our panels will not warp or fail for 50 years, we build them to last much longer than that. Sing Core panels are expected to last hundreds of years in proper conditions, and even in severe conditions where their strength is tested every day, we still promise 50 years of quality and structural integrity. No other comparable material can compete with that.

What Makes Them So Durable?

Sing Core panels have many features, and one is the incredible durability that inspires our confidence in our product. This durability is achieved in many ways through our manufacturing process and patented designs, but I will touch on a few here.

Strong Design

Sing Core panels are carefully engineered to be structurally sound and fail free down to their core. Our patented Sing Honeycomb Core allows for an incredibly lightweight panel without compromising integrity, and evenly distributes weight, impacts, and strain throughout the door or wall. In addition, we finish our panels with high-quality hardwood to ensure the exterior is just as resilient as the interior.

Skins and Finishing

The strength and durability of your door or wall panel can be enhanced further depending on the skin you choose to finish it with. While even just vinyl or wood skins can greatly extend the lifespan of the product, if you choose to finish it with a metal skin, that is only further solidifying the panel and providing additional impact and surface protection.

Warp-Free

Another major advantage of Sing Core’s designs is that they will remain warp-free for their lifespan. Warping is bad in any use of our panels, but especially when it comes to doors. A warped door panel can have a wide range of complications even from a seemingly insignificant warp. Sliding doors may not follow their tracks, pivot and hinge doors may never seal properly again, and more. That’s why we’re proud to share that our panels will never warp on you, and that is included in their 50 Year Guarantee.

Easy Repairs

In the event your panel does end up damaged, even then, it’s not all lost. It is often possible to repair the panel through a few methods, and when the repair is complete, the panel is returned to full strength.

Our Promise

We don’t only promise to deliver the best lightweight, strong, and resilient door or wall panel on the market, but we also ensure it will last you a very long time. If your Sing Core panel warps or fails on you at any point within the 50 years, we will make it right. But don’t expect to cash in on that promise, as you’ll find that panel simply doesn’t want to fail.

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Sing Core Optional Features and Upgrades

Sing Core panels are a versatile and quality solution to the majority of door, wall, and other construction or design projects. While we have our standard honeycomb panels, there are a few additional features that are available which may prove useful in some circumstances. Most customizations or options can be discussed and designed to match your project goals during the quoting process, but here are just a few of the common options or upgrades we offer:

Skin Types

One of the main sources of variety to our panels is our vast selection of skin types. These are essentially the finishing touch on our door and wall panels, in which we cover the core with high quality and visually appealing skins. These can be anything from wood staves to a vinyl wrap and more, all depending on the job at hand. Click here to see our full selection of skins.

Insulation, Sound Reduction, and Thickness

We recently wrote about the sound reduction and deadening qualities of Sing Core panels here, so we’ll only touch on that part briefly. Sing Core uses high end insulation to fill all voids within our panels, meaning there are no thin spots to compromise the insulation’s integrity or function. This means that, unlike most standard doors, a Sing Core door won’t sap the heat from your climate-controlled home or office and cause your heating bill to skyrocket. Another advantage of this insulation method is a sound reducing nature. The better insulated a door or wall panel is, the less sound it lets through it. A thicker panel also shares this benefit. Thus, by using a Sing Core panel to create doors or walls for a sound studio, you can choose the strength of sound reduction you’d like by adjusting the thickness of the panels you order. Thin panels will provide some sound reduction, and thicker panels will result in near complete sound deadening.

Security Features

Sing Core panels are incredibly strong and durable, but sometimes you may want a little bit more peace of mind regarding the safety of what is behind your new door. Sing Core offers two main ways to improve the security of your door, either with a metal skin or with our new Sing Core Security Door. A metal skin offers improved protection to the surface of the door, which can be helpful when it comes to someone attempting to break or cut through it. Our Security Door, however, includes a grid of steel bars running throughout the panel, massively increasing the strength of the door, while also drastically increasing the time it would take someone to cut or break through. In terms of protection, the metal skin protects the door itself, and the Security Door internal support protects your home or office by preventing someone from getting through. Combining these two features creates an even better, incredibly strong door that would bring a would-be intruder to tears.

Customizable Shape

The last, but most common option when it comes to customizing our door and wall panels is the shape and size. We want to make sure you aren’t limited merely by maximum size or standard shape. We can build a panel to nearly any specifications, whether it be large, small, straight, rounded, with a window cutout, and many more customization options. When planning out your door and sending us the details, we encourage you to design the best door you can, and we’ll provide the best panel on the market.

Sing Core panels come in many shapes and sizes, quite literally. There are also additional features to consider when ordering from us, and this article doesn’t even cover all of the customizable options. Feel free to examine our website or reach out with any questions regarding your door or wall panel needs, and we look forward to working with you!

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Sing Core for Sound Isolation

Why Do You Need Sound Isolation?

Sound isolation is an important feature for many applications, primarily those where a room or area needs to be absolutely silent, with no background noise from the nearby areas. Sound studios, recording booths, conference rooms, and more often require or are greatly enhanced with sound isolation. In addition, if your home or business is near a busy street, having a properly designed door with sound reduction in mind can greatly reduce street noise.

Sound Reduction vs Sound Deadening

When it comes to eliminating noise, there are two main “strengths” to consider: sound reduction and sound deadening. Sound reduction is often sufficient for places like conference rooms, businesses, and other applications where you want to limit the sound that passes in or out of the area. Sound deadening is a more effective form of sound reduction, where the incoming and outgoing sound waves are stopped almost entirely. This is ideal for sound studios and recording booths, as well as other scenarios in which you want to eliminate as much background noise as possible. The difference in achieving these techniques is relatively the same, however, as it merely comes down to the thickness of both the barrier and the insulation inside.

How Sing Core Does Sound Isolation

Sing Core door and wall panels are excellent for sound isolation. Our standard panels are fit with high end insulation and leave zero voids, meaning our normal product provides basic sound reduction. Enhanced reduction, all the way up to sound deadening properties can be achieved by simply increasing the thickness of your requested Sing Core panel. No matter the thickness, we fit our panels with insulation from top to bottom, front to back, that way you can be confident that you’re getting a solid, sound reducing, and heat insulated door or wall panel.

In addition to studio-grade sound reduction, Sing Core panels are also incredibly strong, durable, and lightweight. Our patented and patent-pending designs are light enough to be easily moved, installed, and operated in comparison to the other options, as well as being stronger than steel. Our panels are also incredibly durable, and won’t need replaced merely because they got bumped into. We use high quality skin options including wood staves, vinyl, and others to ensure you get a beautiful and long lasting look to your door.

Watch this quick video to hear the difference when using Sing Core panels for sound deadening!

50 Year Guarantee

Not only are Sing Core panels perfect for your sound isolation project, you can also remain confident in them for decades with our 50 Year Warp Free and Structural Guarantee. Whether you’re building a pivot door, sliding door, or any other type of door, you need to ensure it does not warp. Even a minimally warped core can compromise the entire function of the door, sometimes preventing it from closing or sealing, making it difficult to open and close, and many other complications from just the one defect. Our panels are made to never warp, and we give you 50 years worth of promise in that.

Use Sing Core for your studio, conference room, or any other instance where sound reduction or deadening would benefit you!