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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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The Making of a Sing Core Door – From Concept Drawing to Finished Door

The Making of a Sing Core Door

When you first consider ordering a Sing Core door panel, you may wonder what all goes into making your order? If Sing Core is really such a unique and high-quality product, how is it made? Today, let’s dive into the process of taking a Sing Core custom door from concept drawing to finished door.

Step 1: Quote

The first step to any Sing Core door is to request a quote. You can do this by clicking the orange “Pricing” button in the top right corner of most of the pages on our website. This will take you to our order form where you will need to provide the details of your job. These include measurements, door style, use, and more. From there, your completed form gets sent to our sales team, who process your request and reach out to you with a quote. Sometimes they’ll ask for more information, but by the end of this conversation you’ll have a price and date of completion estimate.

Step 2: Shop Drawing

After you accept the quote and decide to move forward with your order, it gets sent off to the production team. The production team starts by making a shop drawing, which is a detailed drawing of your order, showing the exact measurements and shape needed to make your door a reality. The shop drawing is sent to you for one last round of approval, and then it gets put in the factory’s queue to be made.

Step 3: Building

Finally the time to actually make your order has arrived! The factory team starts by analyzing the shop drawing and making a plan for your door. Sometimes the plan is simple, but in some highly-customized-order scenario, there may be additional steps or materials needed. They then create the base of your door order: a Sing Honeycomb Core panel built to the specifications of your project. We use patented and patent-pending technology and designs to make this high end, lightweight, and incredibly strong panel. The panel is then framed and protected with high quality wood sheets, which completes your order. If you requested any additional features for your order, like in the case of a Sing Core Security Panel, then those added features would be added at various times throughout the process, depending on what they are.

Step 4: Wrapping Up

Next, we take your order and package it for shipping. This can vary in execution depending on some factors, such as size, location, and urgency. Many orders will have custom crates built to protect the panel during shipping if possible. The panel goes through one final inspection before being loaded up, and then you will be notified that your order has shipped.

Process Summarized

Your order goes through many stages to ensure quality and accuracy, and we work with you regularly to make sure we’re all on the same page when it comes to your custom order. All orders are appreciated equally at Sing Core, and we guarantee the same high quality, lightweight and sturdy product for everyone. In addition, you get our 50 Year Warp-Free and Structural Guarantee with every panel ordered.

Thank you for your interest in using Sing Core for your custom doors. If you have any questions, feel free to submit a quote request and our Sales team will be happy to assist you!

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Sing Core’s 50 Year Guarantee

Sing Core’s Famous 50 Year Guarantee

At Sing Core, we are well known for the high quality door and wall panels we manufacture. Their many qualities allow them to speak for themselves, though our famous 50 Year Guarantee is what really sends them to the top. Our panels are strong, lightweight, and make beautiful doors, but without a warranty those traits are far less valuable. Sing Core panels, however, come with a 50 Year warp-free and structural guarantee. This turns those fancy words into a real promise, which is more than most other panels on the market can claim.

Why 50 Years?

50 years is a long time, longer than any other custom panel manufacturer is willing to claim. It comes with significant risk, as over the course of 50 years, a lot can happen to the product. Temperature and weather exposure can cause it to warp, frequent use can cause faults in the structure, and more. With Sing Core panels, this isn’t a concern. We don’t just promise 50 years and hope the panel survives, we promise 50 years because we know it will. In fact, Sing Core panels are designed to last far longer than 50 years, though we feel 50 years is a good amount of time to prove the durability and quality of our product, and is far more than what the rest of the industry is willing to offer.

Warp-Free Guarantee

Part of the 50 Year Sing Core Warranty is a promise that our panels will never warp. Warping presents a huge concern for doors and walls, and particularly large doors are at higher risk of warping just due to their size. A warped door can lead to all kinds of issues, such as sealing problems, difficulty opening and closing, and even up to full failure of the structure or function. Sing Core panels are built using our patented and patent-pending designs that guarantee they will never warp, so this completely eliminates the risk of your door or wall failing in that way.

Warping may seem unlikely, but it is incredibly common and can happen for a number of reasons. In areas with volatile temperatures and harsh weather warping is more likely to occur, especially when regularly exposed to moisture such as rain or snow. Even in regions with calmer weather, warping can happen seemingly for no reason. Sing Core panels will never warp, and that is what our 50 Year Guarantee is built on.

Structural Guarantee

In addition to never warping, our panels also come with a structural guarantee. This means that if the door fails in a way related to the manufacturing process, we will make it right. Our panels are crafted of high quality materials in a controlled environment and are solid as a rock, while still being lightweight. We also inspect them all before sending them out, so they should never fail. However, while we are confident in our product, we want you to be confident in it, too. That’s why we offer a structural guarantee as a part of the warranty, so that you know you’ll be covered if your panel ever does fail.

How to Use Your Warranty

In the unlikely event that you need to make use of your warranty, the process is very easy. All you have to do is contact us with the information about the initial panel order and what went wrong, and we will get the process started. During the process you may be asked to provide pictures and information, but rest assured that we will make it right.

Thank you for using Sing Core!

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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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Being Eco-Friendly at Sing Core

Sing Core’s Eco-Friendly Design

Here at Sing Core, we strive to leave the Earth better than we found it. That philosophy drives our material sourcing, production methods, and many more aspects about how we run as a company.

Eco-Friendly Sourcing

When it comes to our wood, insulation, and other materials, we source them from the most eco-friendly places we can find. For example, the wood we use is renewable, and our insulation isn’t shredded fiberglass. Our panels are crafted to be high quality, long lasting, and strong, but we don’t sacrifice our Earth-conscious promises to achieve that.

 

Lower Emissions

Another way we keep our impact on the Earth in check is through lowering our emissions through local production. We are an all American company, and every one of our panels are made in Washington State. By staying local and keeping business in the country, we not only promote and help the economy, but also the environment, as we have significantly lower emissions and fuel consumption compared to companies that outsource their production. Shipping product, especially large custom pieces, can be incredibly time consuming and uses a lot of fuel. This fuel burning can harm the atmosphere, and in some cases, spills and damages can dump toxic gas and oil into the delicate ecosystems in the oceans. Sing Core doesn’t contribute to this damage on the planet, as we keep our production local.

No-Burn Factory

Many factories burn trash, chemicals, or other harmful materials in their production process. These places often have smoke columns and plumes of thick, dark smoke to mark where they are. At Sing Core, we don’t burn anything in our panel production. There is nothing in our process that requires burning, melting, or anything of the sort, and as such our impact on the atmosphere is near zero.

 

Better Product = Less Waste

Not to gloat, but Sing Core panels are incredibly strong. Not only that, they last a very long time, and even come with a 50 Year Structural and Warp-Free Guarantee. This may seem like a sales pitch, but it actually plays into our environmentally friendly mission. By creating panels that last a long time and can be easily repaired, we greatly reduce the amount of waste from replacing or scrapping projects. Every time a door needs replaced, it ends up in a landfill, or at best parts of it get recycled. With a Sing Core panel, you won’t have to worry about replacing the door any time soon, which in turn cuts down on our impact on the environment.

Sing Core strives for many things, such as creating the best door and wall panels on the market. But in these endeavors, we will never lose sight of the importance of being eco-friendly. We are also always looking for ways to lessen our impact even more, and are working to join the list of companies that can proudly say they’ve made a difference.

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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!

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The Strength of Sing Core

Industry Leading Strength

We often mention Sing Core’s incredible strength and durability when talking about our door and wall panels, and we’re confident in that statement. As a customer, though, we understand that you may want more than just a promise in that regard, especially since our industry leading door and wall panels are so lightweight, they seem like they just can’t be as strong as the other options. Read on to find out why we beat out not only the competition, but full metal doors, as well.

What Makes Sing Core so Strong?

This is due to a few factors, the top of which being our patented honeycomb core that we use in almost all of our products. This wood and insulated core is designed in such a way that is incredibly strong, despite weighing a fraction of the other options. The interwoven lengths of wood provide a rigid structure that won’t bend, warp, or break. Plus, our doors are stronger pound-for-pound than steel. Then, our high quality insulation eliminates voids and protects against the harsh cold, sealing the warm air inside your home and helping to reduce your heating expenses.

While our honeycomb core is where the magic happens, we also laminate our panels with high quality wood to seal the core and add additional rigidity. By sandwiching our core between two high quality hardwood boards, we add another dimension of strength to our product. In addition, this provides impact resistance, as we don’t use cheap lumber like some of the other mainstream options. Overall, this provides a door or wall panel that can withstand tremendous force while still being so lightweight that it can often be lifted by one hand.

What are Some Other Benefits?

Sing Core panels receive other benefits from the strength of our cores, such as being 100% warp free. Due to our panel’s design, our products are guaranteed to never warp, and are protected by a 50 Year Structural Guarantee. If a door warps, many aspects of it and its function are lost or altered. For example, it may not latch properly, may form a gap, may distort the skin/finish on the door, may not open or close properly, and more. In addition to not warping, our doors are also incredibly impact and weather resistant. Kicking in one of our doors is more likely to break your foot than the door itself, and bumps, dings, and other forms of impacts won’t ruin or break through the outer panel. If, for some reason, your door does end up getting damaged, Sing Core panels are very easy to repair and return to full strength.

Why Should You Trust Us?

If we weren’t confident in the strength, durability, and integrity of our product, we wouldn’t offer a 50 Year Structural Guarantee. No matter what happens, if your door fails in any of the ways that we promise it won’t, we’ve got you covered. 50 years of promise means that we’re certain our door and wall panels won’t fail within that time, and even beyond.

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How Can You Get a Sing Core Product?

How to get a Sing Core Product

So you’ve done your research, compared the products, and found Sing Core to be the best choice for your custom panel. Whether it be for a door, wall, or other purpose, you’ve chosen Sing Core to bring stability and durability to your project. Now what? Follow the steps in this article to go from concept to reality!

As a Homeowner

As a homeowner or private buyer, you may be wanting to work Sing Core into your project or home, and we greatly appreciate your support! We unfortunately don’t sell direct to the consumer, but there are still ways you can get a Sing Core product! Simply locate a contractor, architect, or other industry professional and let them know you want a Sing Core panel for your project, and they can take it from there. If you’ve already done your research and know what sort of core of ours you’d like to use, you can give that information to your chosen specialist so they have a place to start.

 As an Industry Professional

Your client has requested a high end, custom door, wall, or other fixture, and you want to use Sing Core’s lightweight and durable panels to make it. We appreciate your business, and want to make this process as streamlined as possible, while still guaranteeing quality and accuracy.
First, you’ll need to get the specifications for your project, either from your customer or your own design. We need dimensions, intended use, quantity, and skin type. Measure the height, width, and depth of your desired item, and choose one of our many skin options. Then, go to our website, and click the orange “Pricing” button on the right side, and then the “Get an Estimate” button. Fill out the requested information, and one of our sales specialists will contact you soon. They will often contact you within the same day, but can be 1-2 business days.

When the sales specialist contacts you, they’ll go over your project more in depth, and talk about how Sing Core can bring strength, durability, and promise to it with a lightweight panel. From there, they will give you an estimate on the price, specifications, and delivery time, and we can start working on your product.

After your panels arrive, the ball has been passed to you! You can now use these incredible panels to build amazing doors, walls, and more.

What Comes Next?

Next, we hope to hear back from you! Reach out to us with any questions, concerns, or comments you have about our product and service. You can also leave reviews for us on the major avenues, such as Facebook, Google, and more. The more you support us, the more we’ll support you! Plus, at Sing Core we value loyalty above all else, and look forward to building the professional relationships we can both rely on, so you can continue to get the best panels in the industry, and we can continue to work with you.

Thank you for your interest in Sing Core, and we look forward to working with you.