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Extra Wide Exterior Doors

You want them. They’re so impressive. They’re nearly impossible to get or have custom-built, and those extra wide exterior doors look magnificent when they are expertly designed and installed, only to disappoint at the following change of weather, because those extra wide exterior doors are likely to fail not long after installation.

What are you going to do?

If you find a custom millwork who is brave enough to build your extra wide exterior doors, it is certain they will have you sign a waiver of exclusion from any standard warranty they might offer on any of their other work on your project (which is normally a year). This is common for any unconventionally wide doors.

As all experienced millworks and custom door manufacturers know, a wide door is going to present problems for door warp. It’s simply the nature of the building materials which will move according to changes in the environment. Especially for extra wide external doors because one side faces the interior and the other faces the elements. This is a certain recipe for failure.

When the temperature is different on either side of the door, it will move. When it rains, or sunlight falls directly on the door, change in barometric pressure, just about any change will cause the door to move.

This is accepted as a standard in any type of door. In fact the AWI standard for a regular-sized door is to allow up to ¼” movement for any door up to 7 ft. tall and 3-and-a-half ft. wide to be considered “normal.” All door hardware is constructed to allow for this variance.

Once you exceeds the height and width of what is considered “normal” the differences are increased exponentially, and it doesn’t take much to have your wide doors become inoperable as they warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail due to movement which will naturally occur.

That is, unless your extra wide exterior doors have Sing Core inside.

Lightweight High Strength Sing Core

Inventor Peter Sing’s patented and patented-pending wide door building technologies allow the biggest and best door manufacturers in the world to produce large doors of enormous size which can be covered by Sing’s

50-year Warp-free Guarantee

If you are a premiere door manufacturer dealing with high profile clientele, you really want to deliver the goods when it comes to that one-of-a-kind extra wide front door. You don’t have to disappoint your customer because now you can offer Sing’s 50-year Warp-free Guarantee, which guarantees that your door will not warp-, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for fifty years.

No need to be afraid about that extra wide entry door in your latest door schedule because you can now offer a full 50-year guarantee for any extra wide door built with Sing Core inside.

Endless Design Possibilities

Sing Core empowers contemporary architects and designers to create doors of impressive proportions in any available wood species, door skin material, glass texture, size or shape. You are now set free to create any modern extra wide front door without hesitation or fear of failure, thanks to the true Flat Team at Sing Core.

You are not limited to any design style, number, shape, or style of lite cutouts for custom glass inserts, or surface material, for Sing Core is a predominant supplier of the best large wood, aluminum, brass, fiberglass, glass, HPL, and steel exterior, interior, storm and patio doors in the United States, and Sing Core products are proudly sourced and made in the USA.

The possibilities are endless as you team up with Sing Core to build your next large custom extra wide contemporary front door, and don’t be surprised when you discover that for the most part standard extra wide exterior doors are pivot doors and sliding doors which though they could be made of any flat building material, feature either beautiful natural wood grains or fiberglass and steel as extra wide entry doors.

What will your next door for extra wide openings look like, will you consider wide front doors used double wide front doors, or a pair of French doors to add that special appearance to any extra-wide doorway.

Remember, you can have any size or shape of lite cutout for your custom glass inserts, to create your best extra wide exterior doors for you or your upscale clientele.

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Exterior Door Skins

Looking for exterior doors? Some are known to be better than others. You might know what you want, but is that the right exterior door skins to use on a door which may present challenges not long after installation?

The exterior surface material of your door (referred to as “door skin”) is a huge decision to make. While you might absolutely be able to see a particular type of door in your mind’s eye, you may find the door you’ve set your sights on will offer you far more problems than aesthetic beauty. Definitely worth considering before you settle on your decision to select certain exterior door skins over others.

For instance, some flat building materials that you might like to use as exterior door skins may be sensitive to changes in the environment and may have a problem facing the elements or extreme weather conditions. The good news is, new external finishing products are emerging regularly to help protect underlying surface materials from moisture penetration. Galvanized metal skin would be good exterior skin for applications near saltwater, and it can be painted! FRP provides protection from moisture as well. Wood stave skin provides much more protection than veneer skins.

These new technologies can be helpful in protecting metals that might rust or natural woods which might soak up rain, like a sponge.

 

The world’s best millworks are fully up to speed on all these latest technologies which help to protect your exterior door objet d’art from the elements. This helps solve one-half of the dilemmas which face door engineers and technicians. Then, there is the other half: Door warp.

Pretty much, all doors warp to some degree, so the American Woodworking Institute has established a standard for doors, which basically says that any door which does not deflect over one-quarter inch over a seven-foot-span is straight. Any deflection over a quarter of an inch would be considered as “door warp.”

All doors, door jambs, and door hardware take this ¼” variance of “straightness” into account in the design of all the adjoining components.

That’s where inventor Peter Sing’s patented and patent-pending Sing Core comes in.

With the advent of Sing Core’s warp-free door blanks, the top door manufacturers in the world can create oversized exterior doors of any size which can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for 50 years. This is an unparalleled 50-year warp-free guarantee which was unheard of in the door industry previously.

There is little doubt that natural wood grain poses the greatest challenge for door warping in exterior door application. As beautiful as wood grain is, it is notorious for moving according to environmental changes. No matter how well you protect it from the weather by sealing the door completely (which is an important part of the process) wooden doors will warp, unless they have Sing Core inside.

Sing’s groundbreaking technology empowers architects to spec the most contemporary architectural doors made of ornate wood grains in any size, even large oversized doors, that can be guaranteed not to warp for 50 years, and Peter Sing puts his signature on the line.

Most of the most contemporary architects are willing to spec a sixteen- to twenty-foot-tall door with Sing Core inside without hesitation, though other industrial aerospace and military projects could feature large sliding doors reaching 70 ft. tall and over 200 ft. wide.

No matter what size your large sliding door is, if its 100 percent exposed to the weather, you don’t want it to warp, and there’s only one way to create such a warp-free door, and that’s with Sing Core inside.

Now, you can have natural wood grain skins on your exterior doors without fear of failure for the most sustainable exterior doors ever made in the USA and guaranteed for 50 years.

Wood Grain Exterior Door Skins

Not limited to wood grain doors (which are the most challenging), you may also use any other available flat building material and receive the same high precision and 50-year guarantee.

Other Exterior Door Skins