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Customizable Doors for Your Next Project

Customizing something gives you the freedom to add or take away certain aspects of an item. At Sing Core we offer the ability to do just that, by making custom doors for all your structures. We provide doors for any purpose, such as oversized cabinet doors, large doors, garage doors, pivoting doors.  The list goes on.  If you can’t seem to find those perfect doors, whether new construction or a home remodel, here at Sing Core, we can make it happen. Or if you are looking for a pivoting door for your entrance, we have you covered. No matter the task, we can service your door needs.

If you can think it, we can do it. The picture above is an example of a customized large cabinet doors. It could be a pivoting cabinet door. Now, no job is too big for the best cabinetry shops, custom cabinet builders, or millworks, if their work features “Sing Core inside.” We offer a large range of customization options which will help you suit your customers’ needs better, for example, sizes and locations of internal wood blocking, implants for lock blocks, hardware, or fastening points for added siding on the face of your Sing panel, even custom stiles and rails or premium hardwood edges on all 4 sides of the Sing panel. 

 

 

Below are some of the many options Sing Core offers as a skin choice or in other words the surface material. 

 

Paint Grade

Metal

Wood Grain

Wood Stave

FRP Fiberglass

Galvanized Steel

Aluminum

Metal

.20 in to.125 inch aluminum

HPL Formica

Masonite

Cold Rolled Steel

Hot Rolled Steel

Magnesium Board

Marine Grade Plywood

MDF

Plastic

Stainless Steel

Fiberglass

Concrete

Ceramic

Some other options we have here at Sing Core are window and light cutoffs. Sing Core provides Sing panels with window and door pre-cut and ready for installation. We will cut 1/8 larger in width and 3/16 inch wider in length to fit your window glass. We build a frame using 1.25 inch solid wood to your specifications.  The standard ready-to-ship panel condition is, “untrimmed.” All untrimmed edges are 1/2 inch over width and 1/2 inch over length. After trimming, your Sing Panel will be 1/2 inch less.

When customizing, the concern most often brought up is the weight. Though many leading competitors try to work with the design of the customer, they have trouble keeping it light and movable. At Sing Core our door panels are up to 80% less in weight allowing for a beautiful door without the hassle of being too heavy. 

Once these doors are complete the next choice is having a pivoting door or a hinged door. For a hinged door the hinges attach to both the wall and the door itself, allowing the door to swing open and shut. Hinged doors can usually be installed rather easily, are simple to operate, and most maintenance can be done by the home or business owner. For many small to standard sized doors, hinges work great. 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. 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. Every Sing Core Door comes with our 50 year structural guarantee.

 

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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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folding garage door

So, you may think that a bi-fold garage door is the right look for your dwelling. They have a classic look the reminisces of old times. Stables, country houses, and regal manor homes. This is exactly what Sing Core provides.

Bi-fold doors are defined by having two panels on each side of the opening, for a total of four panels. The outer panels are hinged to the wall, while the inner two are hinged to the outer panels themselves. This produces a compact operating door over wide spans. Some bifold doors will have tracks and/or wheels that support the inner panel during operation. While this may not always be necessary, doors that operate in this way are similar to accordion doors.

Residential Vertical Bifold Garage Doors

In the typical up scale residential home, wide garages are a must. But the drab old “overhead” style door is not the right fit for such a home. Enter, the vertical bifold garage door:

This door is a sleek alternative to the same old tune. Yet, it remains functional in compact, space sensitive designs. And, maintains the easy to operate functionality of the standard overhead design.

SingCore’s patented garage door panel technology is the key ingredient in such a design, where strength, lightness, perfect straight, noise and temperature insulation qualities are highly prized.

Residential Horizontal Bifold Garage Doors

The classic look, nothing beats the traditional craftsman style of horizontal folding bifold doors.

Yet, there is no reason to be stuck in old traditions when superior modern alternatives exist. SingCore’s panels are as much as 3 times lighter than tradition wooden doors, come with much superior insulation, and are guaranteed warp free for 50 years.

For that timeless look, combined with timeless durability — look no further than SingCore.

Folding Garage Door Hardware

For SingCore, hardware is no problem. Our light weight and perfectly straight construction takes the load of any hardware design that you choose. 2 hinge, 3 hinge, 4 hinge or more.

We block out internal supports exactly where you want the hardware to be. Then your crack hardware installation millwork, contractor, door installer, or other trade professional will do the rest of the work!

Bifold Garage Door Track

Bifold garage doors are the right track for the exceptional home that exceeds expectation. You may call a track for a bi-fold garage door an accordion door track. What ever track you take, make sure SingCore is on the bill.

No track is strong enough to take the beating of an exceptionally heavy door panel indefinitely. Or, prevent the warping of a wooden door. Our one of a kind building techniques avoid all these issues!

Compact Folding Garage Door

Folding garage doors can be a great asset to the human race, because they get “out of your way!”

Don’t you think that a folding garage door is in your future? Why go back when you can go forward?

Tri-Fold Garage Doors

There is no reason to stop at two, when you can have three or more of the very best panels in the industry. Our patented and patent pending door technology is uniquely suited for the stress of a tri-fold application via:

  • Immense strength (stronger than steel)
  • Profound straightness (straighter than AWI standards)
  • A lifetime of durability (50 years or more)
  • Any style, finish, or look!

Bifold Garage Door Price

The price of a set of a bi-fold, tri-fold, or any folding door panel can be most quickly and easily determined by clicking the orange button at the top of this page. And, submitting the details of your project to our crack estimating team.

Best of luck on your project!

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Architectural Sliding Doors and Walls

JB Duke Hotel Doors Perfect Straight Light Weight Super HIgh StrengthNothing says “professional” like the unique quality of Sing Core’s patented custom architectural sliding doors and walls. When other manufacturers see our product, they wish they could provide the highest quality in terms of lightness, strength, and straightness that we deliver. Unfortunately for them, we must humbly say, our product is the better of the two.

Designed for High Budget Projects

By design, our panels work best for high budget projects that need something exceptional for their project. Our panels comes unfinished and potentially untrimmed, with the custom skin variety of your choice, ready for finishing and hardware.

Sometimes customers ask us, “should I use this panel in high-end 10+ million dollar house projects?” Our answer is yes!

When it comes to architectural doors of any variety, including sliding, pivot, carriage, moveable wall, hinge, or anything else.

Modern Solutions for Sliding Doors with Volume Based Pricing

With commitment to clean design, premium materials, and high quality craftsmanship in every architectural sliding door panel we manufacture to your specification.

Featuring monumental panels, the Sing Core door system allows for stackable or pocketed configurations with a practically unlimited numbers of panels.  With almost unlimited frame material choices, Sing Core samples complement any architectural style helping you meet the design goals and performance criteria of your project.

Sing Core offers our clients a range of options and materials for every type of high volume, medium volume, or low volume project. Along with our excellent customer service, we can guarantee your projects success.

Custom Size Patio Doors

We make doors of any size based on your specification. Architects, millworks, and contractors of all varieties can benefit from our flexible manufacturing methodology that excels where others fail and exceeds where others cannot!

Successful Client Relationships Begin with Mutual Satisfaction

In business, just like life, both parties must be happy after the interaction. That is why Sing Core operates under the philosophy of fair exchange. This is what we call “fair.”

To make sure you are left smiling after we are done, we offer an unprecedented and unparalleled 50-year structural guarantee on every professional level panel that we make. That way you and your clients have no fears of the future with our product. Should the unthinkable happen, we will replace your panel no questions asked once proved unworkable.

Find the Right Fit For Your Next Project

Sing Core knows that high end products required a wide variety of materials to be successful, and we have you covered. No matter whether you need:

  • Wood Stave: oak, alder, cedar, mahogany, teak, pine, fir, or anything else you can imagine
  • Wood Veneer: oak, alder, cedar, mahogany, teak, pine, fir, or anything else you can imagine
  • Metal: Cold Rolled Steel, Hot Rolled Steel, Aluminum, Copper, or anything else you can imagine
  • Formica: any color, glossy, matte, marker board, chalk board, or other

Find the Sing Core Panel that Best Meets Your Needs

Ordering with Sing Core is simple: just provide us with length, width, thickness, skin material, blocking requirements for you door, shipping destination, project budget, project timeline, and contact information. Then we get back to you quickly with a fair price on custom panels to meet you specifications. See our new C Series line of Affordable Barn Door and Sliding Closet Doors.

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Hinged Door Gallery Pictures Photos

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Classic Hidden Hallway Door

About Hidden Doors

Hidden doors, or jib doors, are the most particularly demanding for high precision because any misconfiguration or door warp will make an otherwise invisible door stick out like a sore thumb (literally), and if it’s too far out of plumb, it may not operate at all.

Thanks to inventor Peter Sing’s patented and patent-pending hidden door technology, you con create a flawless, high precision invisible hidden door that will operate without fail. other advantage of using Sing’s core within your hidden door include possessing an Eco-friendly door that is fully insulated for sound deadening and climate control, lightweight (one-third or less the weight of other wood based solid core doors), high strength (at 660+ PSI, stronger than steel pound for pound), impact resistant (Sing says, “kick my door, break your leg”), highest precision (Sing Core sports .006-inch tolerances), and here’s the kicker,

50-Year Warp-free Guarantee

The only way in the world to build a sustainable lightweight high strength hidden door that can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail (including delamination) for 50 years, is to have your door build with Sing Core inside.

Sing Core is known for it’s large, showy doors. But, our lightweight door technology has many varied applications. Whenever style and durability are a factor, Sing Core panels deliver where others cannot.

A Unique Addition to Your Project

Nothing sells a finished product like the little touches. When you think that everything else has been tried, consider adding a hidden door to your project.

Hidden doors allow for additional space utilization in a design while minimizing visual clutter due to door framing and hardware. This gorgeous example, built by one of Sing Core’s clients using our patented lightweight honeycomb technology, oozes refinement and class. At a glance, the door melds in to the hallway molding and leaves the  lines unobstructed.

Our Panels are Your Canvas

An artist cannot paint without a strong canvas, likewise a builder cannot make living art without strong building materials to form their creations.

Sing Core door slabs come with a 50-year warp-free guarantee that demonstrates the underlying stability and quality of our materials. We stand by our ability to create doors that are:

  • Lightweight
  • Sound proof
  • High insulation value
  • Straight
  • Strong
  • and Dependable

When You Client Demands the Best

May companies on the market offer a variety of door cores. We acknowledge that our product is not the right solution on all situations. For doors of usual sizes and applications, or exacting production standards leave little flexibility in pricing to meet budget demands. Where our doors shine is in very large, high tolerance, or very high end applications.

When all that maters is the best possible outcome for your project, then remember Sing Core and our patented and patent pending “honeycomb” door technology cannot be beat.

Smooth, Flush Trim, and Anything You Can Imagine

Flush is just the start of the possibilities when it comes to high end custom doors. With Sing Core almost any possibility to can be realized. Almost any size can be realized using the unique strength and straightness of our honeycomb core. Too thin and too big are not in our vocabulary.

The real question is how big can you imagine? What do you and your clients seek to realize?

A Miraculous Material

Many people are surprised to see how much then can accomplish beyond the norm with Sing Core backing their work. For us strength is really not a problem. Warping can be relegated to a fear of the past.

We would be boosting to say these things if the product didn’t warrant the praise. But in this case we can, in humility, say that what we provide top end millworks, construction companies, and architects pushes the boundary of what is possible.

When you use Sing Core you are in the driver’s seat. Do you want metal skin, solid wood skin, paint, plastic, fiberglass? Almost anything can be realized with less weight and greater strength than even aluminum or other space age door technologies.

What Can We Do For You?

Although we aren’t the right fit for every project, when your design has unique needs remember that Sing Core is there to back you up.

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Swinging Doors the Best Hinged Door

Sing Core has been assisting the best high end custom door manufacturers create the most magnificent swinging doors using the best hinged door known. Only the best, most exclusive upscale architects, designers and ultra-custom door makers know if you want the best hinged door for the highest degree of precision, performance and prestige, you want your door to have Sing Core inside.

The Only 50 Year Warp-free Guarantee and full structure warranty

Hinged Door Warp-free Hinged Door Guarantee

Building a door with Sing Core inside is the only way to create a door that can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for 50 years, including a full 50 year structure strength warranty. While other doors may be guaranteed for 10 years, most or one or two years, if they are guaranteed at all. Doors over seven or eight feet tall are normally excluded from any warranty due to their tendency to warp the next season.

With Sing Core you can create Eco-friendly swinging hinged doors that are insulated, lightweight, high strength. No need to add extra door hardware to help keep the door straight over time (door manufacturers add extraneous hinges in an effort to keep the door straight). But warp-prone hinged doors, even if they have a full length piano hinge, still warp on the side that latches, and a door that does not operate and cannot be secured is not much of a door at all.

Airtight Hinged Door Seals

Maintaining a perfect airtight seal is of primary importance, plus the added insulation characteristics of any door with Sing Core inside increases climate control while adding sound-deadening qualities not found in other doors, especially in high end laboratories, industrial environments, commercial applications, and homes.

Superior Exterior Hinged Door Applications

Exterior hinged doors often cause problems (especially if they are over 7 ft tall) because one side of the door faces the interior of the structure while the other side of the door faces the elements.

Hinged Panel Doors

Panel doors are assembled of wood (or other material) with separate pieces oriented in cross grain patterns to help mitigate the potential door warping. While this method is somewhat effective, the resulting door does not offer much in the way of high precision, insulation, or performance, but they are pretty. The craftsmanship of a well-made stile and rail door is very elegant and the way the different pieces are joined together offers a certain intrigue when examining the door, especially if it is a wood grain door. But consider the Sing solution…

Sing Raised Panel Door

The Eco-friendly Sing raised panel door is a huge improvement over the traditional stile and rail door, in that it is extremely high-precision (+/- .06 in.) lighter in weight (a fraction of the weight of those solid wood panel doors), insulated for climate control and sound deadening, and stronger than steel pound of pound enabling professional raised panel doors with Sing Core inside to be guaranteed warp-free (will not warp, bend twist, cup or otherwise fail) for 50 years, including full structure warranty. No other door can do all that, and be so versatile.

While a Sing raised panel door can look just like a standard 6 panel door made via the old-fashioned stile-and-rail door manufacturing method, making a raised panel door with Sing Core inside is quite different.

The most important component of the Sing raised panel door is the patented Sing Core material which consists of a hybrid composite of vertical grain torsion box grid filled with rigid recycled foam insulations sandwiched between two stress skins and superiorly bonded with formaldehyde-free adhesive. This gives your door the strength and integrity you’ve always dreamed about. Install the door, and no worries about service calls due to door warp.

The Best Millworks and Custom Door Manufacturers

The best millworks and custom door manufacturers know that the only way to deliver a truly premium product to their high end clientele is to provide them with doors which they make with Sing Core inside, enabling them to guarantee their doors for 50 years, backed by Sing Core’s written guarantee. We take all the hassle and risk out of delivering the best base materials for the best companies and their best customers, bar none.

The Best Flush Doors

Sing Core provides door manufacturers with the best door blanks and flush doors to be used as the best canvases to showcase the artistry and craftsmanship of the finest custom door makers in the world.

Again, if you want to make your Sing flush door look like a panel door, like, say a 6 panel door, the door artisan simply adds the 6 panels and trim to the door’s surface. This is a common approach, especially in door replacement of historically preserved architecturally challenging maintenance and upgrades.

Sing doors are often considered the best replacement doors, especially in exterior door replacement due to the weatherproof door’s characteristics.

Your flush doors with Sing Core inside can easily be modified by adding custom molding, trim or cutting custom lite  cutouts for glass installation in any shape at any location to achieve your desired results.

“How can I get doors with Sing Core inside?”

It’s easy. All you have to do is to contact your favorite millwork or custom door manufacturer and tell them what kind of door you want, including the height, width, thickness, style and look you want (you can even bring in a picture of one that you’ve found in a book, magazine, or on the Internet. They will work in concert with Sing Core to make all your door dreams come true.

You can be among the growing many who can proudly proclaim that their doors have, “Sing Core inside.”