Latest News | Non-warping patented wooden pivot door, sliding door, and Eco-friendly metal cores

April 2, 2020 No Comments

High Precision Warp-Free Metal

Sing Core provides lightweight, high precision, and warp-free metal products to industries; such as military, aerospace, construction, high-end millworks, and door companies in panel or post and beam configurations. These configurations are stronger than steel pound for pound and are guaranteed not to fail for 50 years.

Inventor Peter Sing provides his patented and patent-pending weldless metal technologies to solve the problems associated with the limitations of metal products. Welding causes imperfections in the surface area and compromises strength. Solid metal can look very nice but is so heavy. It is highly impractical, expensive to handle, install, and the cost of hardware is outrageous.

Warp-Free Metal Doors

Oversized metal doors are a challenge for architects, designers, and engineers. Standard-sized metal doors can even be a challenge, depending on your expectations. The bigger a metal door is, the more problems you will face in; the building, transporting, installing, and ongoing maintenance of the door, hardware, and structure over time.

Sing Core’s solution solves the problems associated with metal doors by offering their patented alternative to traditional metal door manufacturing methods. Thus resulting in the highest precision large doors in the industry with the highest performance across the board for lightweight and Eco-friendly metal doors. So far advanced that each door is guaranteed to remain true flat and fail free for 50 years.

Looks Like Solid Metal

Whether your metal doors are made of; aluminum, brass, cold rolled steel, hot rolled steel, copper, diamond plated steel, galvanized steel, stainless steel, or any other metals you can think of. When you encounter one of Sing Core’s metal doors, it looks and feels like a piece of solid metal, but achieves the high-end precision and performance that any other type of metal door cannot achieve. If your metal doors need to be precise and true, it must have Sing Core inside.

Sing Warp-Free Metal is

Eco-friendly	Lightweight	High Strength
Fully Insulated	Sound Deadening	Climate Control
High Precision	High Performance	Guaranteed 50 Years
Impact Resistant	Hybrid Composite	Solid as a Rock

Compare Your Metal to Warp-Free Metal

Standard Metal	Sing Warp-free Metal
Heavy	Lightweight
Welding	No Welding
Welded Frame	No Frame
Hollow	Solid
Strength Variance	Stronger than steel lb. for lb.
Inconsistent Tolerances	Sing Core Tolerance +/- .006-in.
Inconsistent Surface Area	Perfectly Smooth as fresh-milled
Expensive Hardware	Less Expensive Hardware
Expensive to Install	Save $ on Installation
Increased Maintenance	Little or No Maintenance
Potential to Fail	50-year No Fail Guarantee

If you’ve worked with long spans of metal, you know the limitations of how metal performs. Take a look at inventor, Peter Sing, standing amidst a 13 ft. span on an aluminum panel that is only one-inch thick.

Inventor Peter Sing standing on a one-inch panel 13 ft. span w/little or no deflection

No other metal panel could perform like this. Only warp-free Sing Core metal panels could accomplish such a feat and remain just as lightweight and strong for 50 years without fail. This has been unheard of, until now.

April 1, 2020 No Comments

Unique Exterior Doors

Unique exterior door can be the detail which makes any project come to life. Certainly, the most impressive detail which leaves the most lasting impression are the unique front doors which are appearing in the most significant contemporary architecture and designs.

High end custom architectural doors are sprinkled throughout all the latest emerging structure designs as not only attention grabbing unique front doors but are included as a unique home designs security door which add to the appeal of the vast array of unique exterior doors appearing across the most modern architectural designs.

Leading the pack, are the designers who push the envelope of size and materials. While extremely large doors command the lion’s share of the most attention commanding performances, there are many kinds of unique front doors and another emerging technology includes the unique home designs security door, where Sing Core is playing an important part.

These doors may look unique at the surface level but far more unique goings on have taken place deep inside these doors, so what’s happening inside these doors is far more unique than was observable with the naked eye.

Inside the unique front door décor you will find inventor Peter Sing’s patented “Sing Core” along with other patent and patent-pending anti-warp technologies hard at work to keep these doors perfectly straight and true, regardless of what challenges they might face.

Whether you’re looking at individualized high security impact doors or unique storm doors, Sing’s core delivers not only warp-free door tech but also imbues these doors with other satisfying characteristics, such as being fully insulated to provide sound deadening and climate control. These are exciting features which can be found from installing a door with Sing Core inside.

UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS

Your unique front doors can possess all these exciting attributes found inside the highest quality architectural doors across the nation and the world, just by having your architect specify Sing Core doors.

1. LIGHTWEIGHT

Sing’s patented core technology enables his factory to pump out solid hybrid door blanks which weigh in at a fraction of the weight of other wood-based solid core doors. Rivaling the weight of a hollow core door which has virtually no strength, tends to warp and is damaged easily, Sing’s substrate, while extremely lightweight is not weak. In fact, the strongest and straightest lightweight doors in the world, have Sing’s core inside.

2. HIGH STRENGTH

Talk about strength, Sing’s invention has allowed the biggest and best door companies, millworks, and custom door manufacturers to design and build enormous oversized large doors, that are lightweight (see above) and extremely strong. In fact, independently rated at 660+ PSI, Sing’s core is stronger than steel pound for pound, yet very lightweight. See inventor, Peter Sing, standing amidst a 13 ft. span of a one-inch panel with little or not deflection. Any other material would have crashed to the ground.

3. WARP-FREE

Among high-end, scientific, and military circles, Sing’s core is the only known method to build a lightweight warp-free door of any material known to man, especially if the door sis very large, or features a natural woodgrain material (which is the most notorious for moving in response to changes in the environment). That’s why you’ll find Sing’s core in use anywhere from beneath the sea (US Navy) to outer space (NASA) and anywhere in between. Sing is so successful at building warp-free doors and other products that he offers a 50-year warp-free guarantee.

4. HIGH PRECISION

While standard project allows for give and take of available building materials, such as AWI Standards’ allowance for ¼” variance at any time or location amidst a standard-sized door (7 ft. tall or less), Sing’s core hosts the highest tolerances (+/- .006 in.) enabling you to build high precision unique doors of any kind, whether made of wood, synthetics, or metals, even stainless steel.

5. FULLY INSULATED

While most end-users who seek out Sing’s core are looking for something lightweight that doesn’t warp to solve existing issues which have arisen in a current project, having a product to build such a door that is fully insulated offers a huge advantages, even if it wasn’t your primary focus when you first sought out the Sing Core solution to solve your door problems.

6. SOUND DEADENING

Whether for security reasons, studio separation, or just privacy and peace of mind, Sing’s sound deadening door core is the way to go when attempting to address issues related to sound transmission. Sing Core is routinely used in the manufacture of soundproof doors because it can bear the weight of dense and heavy sound proofing materials without fail.

7. CLIMATE CONTROL

Unique front doors can also offer smart climate correction which can be offered by a door which is fully insulated but still not be compromised by exposure to the elements. Sing’s patented climate control door core is used in refrigeration, heat and moisture exposed applications (like saunas) and can still outperform other available Eco-friendly lightweight building materials in side-by-side comparisons.

8. IMPACT RESISTANT

You don’t have to be in a high-security environment, a government or military facility to appreciate the added safety and security of having a unique front door with Sing’s core inside because a door should be more than just visual separation, you should be able to feel safe on your side of the door. Inventor, Sing, says, “If you kick a standard 6 panel door, it will crash. If you kick my door, you will break your leg.” That is to say, you will break your leg before you can break Sing’s door.

9. ECO-FRIENDLY AND SUSTAINABLE

Sing’s door substrates are manufacturing using the strictest Eco-friendly methods of manufacture. They are made with little energy, feature recycled materials, extremely responsible use of natural materials such as wood fiber and Sing uses formaldehyde-free adhesives, while producing no toxic material waste. Sing’s substrates have an extremely small carbon footprint even though they are shipped around the world because their transport costs less and consumes less fuel due to being so light weight.

That’s just a few of the reasons why more architects are specifying Sing Core inside their doors.

March 31, 2020 Daniel Sing Core No Comments

Paint Grade Doors

There are 2 of the most popular types of paintgrade options available for your architectural door specs from Sing Core, and each includes patented Sing technologies to maximize the potential of these formats, ensuring you can enjoy the only

50-year Warp-free Guarantee

Sing Core Paintgrade Door Blanks

Underlayment

The secret to creating an incredibly smooth paint grade door is what lays underneath the painted surface. At Sing Core, the True Flat Team is likely to suggest using a 1/8″ MDF over 1/4″ Plywood surface for the smoothest surface area. Another alternative would be 3/8″ Marine Plywood, which would require a preparatory priming prior to painting for a perfect paint job. Of course, your door will only remain straight for 50 years, if you have Sing Core technology inside.

WARP-FREE MDF (INTERIOR)

WARP-FREE MARINE PLYWOOD (EXTERIOR)

Warp-free MDF is lighter in weight and stronger than other MDF.
Average 1.5-inch to 3-inch thick MDF paintable door blank weighs approximately 1.5 to 3 lbs.
The surface of MDF is very smooth which makes it great surface for painting.
MDF is very consistent throughout, so cut edges appear smooth and won’t have voids or splinters.
Because of the smooth edges, you can use a router to create decorative edges.
Warp-free MDF is excellent substrate for applying .020-inch wood veneer or other thin laminates. (see below)

Made from multiple layers of wood veneer, marine plywood is a strong wood fiber material.
Marine plywood is water resistant and good for use in exterior door applications.
Marine plywood face grain can be easily stained.
Marine plywood holds screws very tightly since the varying grains of wood on each layer give the screws something to hold onto.
Marine plywood is an excellent substrate for applying natural wood stave, wood planks, or other materials. (see below)

.020 Walnut Veneer over extremely smooth Warp-free MDF

The most popular and least expensive is marine plywood.

Warp-free patented and patent pending Sing Core marine ply door substrate

Our marine ply is used in oversized exterior door applications and is constructed using water resistant adhesive using an A-grade veneer face, C-grade inner plies, and a B-grade back which is used for securing patented Sing Core. Marine plywood is a better grade of plywood, commonly used in cabinetry, where the backside need not be presentation quality.

16 ft Tall Billionaire’s Teak plank front Door on Warp-free marine plywood

The 16 ft tall door (above) is teak wood stave door for a mansion in Beverly Hills with Sing Core inside and can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for 50 years.

The A-grade is the highest quality veneer and most sheets will be free of flaws resulting in a plywood surface that is smooth and can be prepped and painted easily.

Warp-free MDF Guaranteed True Flat for 50 Years

The above picture shows MDF substrate ready for paint grade or laminating thin veneer. We work with millwork companies and high end door manufacturers to provide the most strong, lightweight, non-warping door with best guarantee in the USA.

Large barn sliding door with paint-grade 1/4″ marine ply skin.

Warp-free MDF

Sing Core’s MDF is not your father’s MDF. Inventor Peter Sing has developed a method or creating a perfectly smooth surface, which is a well-known characteristic of MDF, which is lightweight MDF and will not warp. Moving due to lack of strength, especially amidst long spans, is also a well-known characteristic of MDF.

Sing uses a combination of patented and patent-pending technologies which result in the only large warp-free MDF door blanks in the door industry. That’s why Sing Core is known for creating the highest grade MDF in the door industry.

When making big doors, like the large oversized doors which Sing Core is famous for, to try to use MDF without Sing Core inside would be like building a door with a giant noodle, granted the surface would still be smooth as can be.

Because MDF is not water resistant it is not recommended for exterior applications, so avoid specifying MDF for large entry doors due to its inherit weakness, instead spec marine plywood as your base material instead.

Due to the smoothest surface area material, MDF can easily be painted, or used as underlayment for thin veneers, vinyl, or other laminations.

16 ft tall White Oak veneer pivot doors on warp-free MDF top floor World Trade Center

The above doors are 16 ft. tall feature .o20 white oak veneer. Door substrate made of patented Sing core with MDF substrate for the tallest building in North America, on the 86th floor’s Sky Club atop the New York World Trade Center.

In fact, all the most high-end veneer-work done by Sing Core uses this warp-free MDF solution as underlayment for the perfect veneering for which they are known. See: How to Make the Best High-end Veneer Doors. Likewise, their high-end millworks and door companies who apply their own laminates, they order this material as their gold standard.

On the other hand, if your intention is to add natural wood planks, then marine plywood is preferred substrate, especially for exterior doors.

While marine plywood and MDF are the most popular there are many other skin types for plywood, paintgrade, and others.

Now, maybe you have a better idea about why architects spec Sing Core

March 26, 2020 No Comments

Pivot Door Manufacturers

Pivot door manufacturers are the backbone of the success behind the impact patented Sing Core is seeing in contemporary architecture design and modern pivot doors around the world. Where the power of these emerging technologies really shines is in modern pivot entry door, but none of this would be possible without the support of the biggest and best high-end pivot door manufacturers.

Patented Warp-free MDF Door Core for Pivot Door Manufacturers

The growing trend of modern pivot doors is often pushing the boundaries of size, where it is generally assumed that the bigger the pivot door is, the greater the impact it will have on those who encounter such a giant articulating pivot door.

It gets more complicated the larger the pivot door is because you are attempting to surpass the limitations of the materials used to manufacture these highly customized pivot doors, especially if you are working with a modern pivot front door.

A modern pivot front door is more far more complicated to manufacture due to its having one side which faces the project’s interior and the other facing the exterior, and could be exposed 100% to the elements, and as they change, the materials begin to move. Given enough movement as the door adjusts to the environmental changes, will cause the door to fail. It may not operate freely, adding stress and strain to the pivot door hardware, compromising the pivot door’s ability to seal correctly, and it may become impossible to secure as locking mechanisms may not line up properly.

This is the plight faced by the best pivot door manufacturers, and that’s where inventor Peter Sing’s patented modern pivot door solutions come in, which have been changing the way modern pivot doors are made.

The Sing Core Solution

for

Pivot Door Manufacturers

Pivot door manufacturers rely on Sing’s ability to match up the perfect modern pivot door core substrate to both the size and materials to create a pivoting front door that will not fail. Backed by Sing’s True Flat Team, his factory, located in the pristine Pacific Northwest in McCleary, Washington, they are able to provide these high-end pivot door manufacturers with the exact door core to match supplication, size, and materials.

The result is a modern pivot front door which will not warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for a full fifty years. (No, that is not a misprint.) The modern pivot door cores with Sing Core inside can deliver a large pivot door made of nearly any flat building materials which can be

Guaranteed Warp-free for 50 Years

This is an unprecedented warranty that can not be achieved without having patented Sing Core inside.

Sing’s patented technologies enable modern pivot door designers to expand their horizons and to exceed high performance standards which would normally be limited to what was previously possible using existing technologies and materials.

What makes Sing’s core so special?

Sing’s core is a hybrid composite technology which combines traditional woodworking craftsmanship and space-age technology to accomplish this feat.

Sing starts with a torsion box grid structure, which has long been known as an effective way to make a large lightweight door with increased dimensional stability. Sing multiplied the strength of the torsion box by making the torsion box grids smaller (2 to 3 inches) and achieved even more strength by flipping the grain orientation to vertical. Then he fills the vertical grain torsion box voids with recycled foam. Sandwiched between two stress skins and cold-pressed with formaldehyde-free adhesive, results in a solid modern pivot door core perfectly matched to the specific needs of the most discerning pivot door manufacturers.

Since the inception of Sing’s core, he has also developed patented and patent-pending anti-warp mechanisms which can be inserted into the core at precise locations to prevent warping of any modern pivot door surface material.

For instance, wooden pivot door manufacturers know that they will receive a one of a kind sing solution for a large wooden pivot door that will be unique and different for each type of wood featured on their warp-free in wooden pivot doors. Whether the doors are white oak, walnut, mahogany, teak, cherry, or cedar, the core will be different. And if it is to be used as a modern pivot front door, even more specialized.

When people hear about Sing’s special technologies, of course, everybody wants a pivot door with Sing Core inside, and they may reach out and contact Sing Core for such a door, but Sing does not build the doors for which he is so well known. Sing only supplies the top pivot door manufacturers with the components which makes these doors possible.

Believe me, you wouldn’t want what he ships to the pivot door manufacturers, it doesn’t much look like a door, but what the pivot door manufacturers do, is to create the most beautiful and most magnificent modern pivot doors using Sing’s core as their canvas.

It is the perfect synergy between the pivot door manufacturers and Sing’s core, resulting in an interior or exterior pivot door that is lightweight, high strength, fully insulated for sound deadening and increased climate control, and can be guaranteed warp-free for 50-years.

And remember, Sing core can support nearly any available flat building material, including but not limited to, aluminum, brass, cold rolled steel, copper, diamond plate steel, fiberglass, Formica, FRP, galvanized steel, hot rolled steel, HPL, Kevlar, Masonite, magnetic white board, stainless steel, and of course, any type of available wood species.

Sing’s core is stronger than steel pound for pound, rated at 660+ PSI and features the highest precision, which is also very highly sought after by the most prestigious end users.

That’s why you could find Sing’s core anywhere from beneath the sea (US Navy) to outer space (NASA) and anywhere in between.

: 16 x 3 ft White Oak Pivot Door

March 25, 2020 No Comments

Wide Front Door

You think your customer is asking for a wide front door when it’s 42 inches wide, but what about when your architect specs a door that is 25 ft. wide and 10 ft. tall? If 42 inches is a wide front door, then a 25 ft. wide slider would be considered an extra wide front door at the very least.

According to the millwork that installed a pair of these 25 ft. wide warp-free wire-brush-finished white oak extra wide doors, they weighed-in at “a couple hundred pounds apiece,” and like so many other millworks and door companies proclaim,

“We couldn’t do it without Sing Core.”

Sing Core is the place where contemporary architecture and design of the wide front door comes to life, and you will find wide front doors all over the most amazing locations throughout the USA and the world, even atop the highest building in the United States, the World Trade Center. And they just don’t come here for ideas and inspiration for their next wide front door, they’re looking for a way to make it happen. And by “make it happen” we mean,

How to build a wide front door that will not fail

We bring the visions of those modern architects and their architectural door creations to life in a way that will not embarrass them down the road (like at the next climate change), when doors will warp, twist, bend, cup, otherwise compromised or become completely inoperable.

There are optical illusions which make a front door look wider, such as adding sidelites on either side of the door which makes it look much wider, but the part of the door that opens, is a normal width door. What if that entire area articulated like one wide front door. That’s a solution provided by Sing Core that can be an option for you or your clients, such as the Sing Core Side Light Door. It’s quite impressive when the whole area, including the sidelights open with the door, moves when the door is opened or closed. This is a most impressive effect when used as a wide pivot door.

Another idea which is gaining traction in contemporary architecture is to use a wide pivot door but include an embedded man door which articulates via side hinge. Man door access doors get used for normal egress use and when you really want to impress your audience or guests, operate the pivot door and the whole front area pivots.

If wide doors were not wide enough, consider that modern architecture designs are adopting a double wide front door approach to standing out and making an artistic and attention-grabbing presentation with elegance for your extra wide exterior doors.

In this respect, when your wide doors have Sing Core inside, you can express full creative expression as virtually any custom contemporary wide front door could take on the look and feel of any artistic representation.

Your project, for instance, could feature an extremely wide front door made of nearly any available flat building materials, such as acrylic, aluminum, brass, copper, cold rolled steel, fiberglass, Formica, FRP, galvanized steel, HPL, hot rolled steel, Masonite, Stainless Steel, or any available natural wood species.

Of all these types of doors, normally, natural wood grains present the greatest number of challenges associated with warping, especially with wide front doors. Yet, if made with Sing Core inside, these doors can be guaranteed to remain

Warp-free for 50 Years

Only doors with Sing Core inside can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, cup, or otherwise fail (including delamination) for 50 years.
It’s no surprise that you will find Sing Core beneath the sea (US Navy) in outer space (NASA) and everywhere in between, from coast to coast, though admittedly, more than 70 percent of all the wide front doors we ship, from our serene wilderness factory in the Pacific Northwest, ship to the greater New York area, mostly New York City. We lovingly refer to NYC as our sister-city.

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Lots of Photos of Wide Front Door

March 23, 2020 Daniel Sing Core No Comments

Custom Sliding Garage Doors

SingCore specializes in producing the highest quality sliding garage doors on the market. Our patented and patent pending core material is ultra-light weight yet super strong. Choose any style of door, skin material, or hardware arrangement that you desire. We building custom door panels to match your specs exactly.

How to Build Sliding Garage Doors

Our sliding garage door blanks come “unfinished” but made to your exact specifications in terms of size, hardware blocking, and surface material. SingCore surfaces include the possibility of —

Wood stave – white oak, walnut, cedar, teak, cherry, and more
Wood Veneer – white oak, walnut, cedar, teak, cherry, and more
Metal – aluminum, hot rolled steel, cold rolled steel, and more
Paint grade
High tech laminate or fiberglass skins

Bypass Sliding Garage Doors

Bypass doors are just one of the many specialty sliding garage door types available for production by SingCore’s crack team of door manufacturing experts. Bypass sliding door, sliding door with man door, accordion doors, and so much more is possible with our state of the art door production technology.

There is no door too small or too large for SingCore’s aerospace inspired “honeycomb” wood and foam core construction. We guarantee your panel will be perfectly straight (to AWI standards) for 50 years or more! This makes SingCore the perfect companion for your high insulation value sliding doors, where exact straightness is the key to a great seal for a sliding door.

Side Sliding Garage Door Cost

Our custom production line is capable of making custom doors in any quantity. Whether you need a one off door for a remodel project or custom high end home, or you need 1000 doors for your development, SingCore can be you supplier.

Because we make every door to order, the cost varies quite a bit based on quantity. The best way to get an idea of price is to submit a quote request with your project details.

Our estimating team, with decades of experience in custom sliding door design and manufacture, is standing by to answer your questions and to help you design and custom door that meets your needs and fits in to your budget.

DIY Side Sliding Garage Door

For the DIY or home gamer, SingCore may just be the perfect fit. We are not a finished door provider, and we do not provide pre-hung or similar products. Our bread and butter is the production of unfinished door “blanks” designed and built to your specifications.

Because of this, we only sell to individuals with the skills and equipment to properly finish and hang our doors. If you are a homeowner without construction skills, we recommend that you contact a millwork or finish carpenter in your area, and tell them you want “SingCore inside”!

Manual Sliding Garage Door

Because SingCore is exceptionally light, less than 1/3rd similar solid wood doors, they make great manual sliding garage doors. Easy to operate, highly insulated, and perfectly straight for your lifetime, SingCore siding doors are practically unparalleled on the custom garage door market.

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March 13, 2020 No Comments

Why Architects Spec Sing Core

Why Do Architects Spec Sing Core?

16 ft. teak wood pivot front door in billionaire's home with Sing Core inside

16 ft tall architectural teak door

In order of importance:

The number one reason architects specify Sing Core is for oversized doors of all kinds.

1. 50 YEAR WARP-FREE GUARANTEE

Any door over seven ft. tall and three-and-a-half ft. wide is going to have a problem with warping. Having Sing Core inside is the only know way to make a lightweight, high-strength door that can be guaranteed not to warp and includes a full structure and lamination warranty for 50 years.

warp-free 9 ft tall walnut veneer architectural door lightweight high strength insulated 50 year guarantee

9 ft tall warp-free walnut veneer door with Sing Core inside

2. SKIN OPTIONS

Beauty is not only Skin Deep

If it’s an available flat surface material, Sing Core has the expertise to apply it to patented and patent pending Sing Core technology in a superior high precision manner which will not delaminate following proper finishing.

MOST POPULAR SKIN OPTIONS

A) WOOD VENEER

Wood veneer is the popular choice for use in architectural doors. Application of veneers in large door projects can be very tricky, and Sing Core utilizes the most advanced comprehensive lamination methods to laminate large veneer doors.

Perfectly smooth walnut veneer

B) WOOD STAVE

Applying solid wood stave (natural wood grain planks) is the hardest material to feature on large doors due to the wood grain’s nature to shift and change in response to changes in the environment. It is hard enough to keep a standard sized wood plank door straight but building an oversized wood stave door is exponentially more problematic, unless it has Sing Core inside.

25 ft. wide wire brushed white oak wood stave sliding door

C) MDF

Sing Core has a unique method using their patented and patent-pending technologies to create the first super smooth high-precision MDF surface area that will not warp. This “smooth as glass” material is ready to paint, add vinyl graphics, or other materials such as veneers or wood stave via cold press in your own shop or millwork. Hot-press-ready version also available. We know how to do it. Just spec it and see for yourself.

D) STEEL

20G steel is the most popular grade of steel used on architectural steel doors with Sing Core inside. Why 20-gauge steel? Because even though Sing Core is lightweight it is stronger than steel pound for pound. That means you can use a lighter weight steel, without compromising the door’s integrity or visual appeal. Most popular steels are cold rolled steel, hot rolled steel, galvanized steel, stainless steel, and diamond plate steel, among others.

Lightweight high strength hot rolled steel slider easy open & close

E) SYNTHETICS

The most popular synthetics used on architectural doors are FRP, Masonite, Formica, fiberglass, and acrylic. The lamination experts at Sing Core know exactly how to deal with these hybrid and synthetic materials to qualify them for their 50-year fail-free guarantee.

Large insulated impact resistant Formica door for added safety and security

F) ALUMINUM

The less expensive yet durable metal skin, aluminum or aluminium is an excellent choice of architectural door skin, and as with steel and other metal doors skins, thinner is better due to the high precision and superior strength of Sing Core.

Note: All door skins have exponentially increased adhesion, as the surface area increases, so does the bonding agent, due to Sing Core’s true flat nature and high precision at +/- .006 in. tolerance. Other honeycomb cores, like aluminum core, is only +/- .03 tolerance, and has very minimal surface area for adhesion, whereas Sing Core is solid surface.

Insulated aluminum sliding patio doors for added climate control

3. HIGH PRECISION SUBSTRATE

Sing Core is a high precision solid surface substrate material sporting .006 tolerances. It is this degree of precision which is necessary, along with extensive proprietary knowledge and patent-pending anti-warp materials, to create the high definition bonding which is necessary to join and two flat surfaces with unsurpassed results. This enables Sing Core to create laminated panels, posts and beams which are created to last for centuries without failure.

What happens if you don’t specify Sing Core inside your doors?

IF YOU DON’T SPECIFY SING CORE inside your door, you are likely to get a heavy LVL door core, or if you specify “lightweight” you are likely to get an aluminum honeycomb door, which may look good on the outside and may hold up following installation, but not for long. Low tolerance (+/- .03 in.) and tendency to move are just too much of a sacrifice to make for discerning clients, like those who are increasingly looking to Sing Core to solve the problems associated with large oversized doors.

lightweight high presicion insulated large warehouse doors one finger push open ease 50 year sing core guarantee

One finger opens large warehouse doors with Sing Core inside

4. FULLY INSULATED

This is an added benefit enjoyed by contemporary architects who specify Sing Core inside their modern doors, but for those in search of insulated doors, this patented and fully insulated substrate is the only way to achieve lightweight high strength and superior insulation throughout for sound deadening and increased climate control.

March 10, 2020 No Comments

Wood Pocket Doors

Wood pocket doors are similar to wood sliding doors in that they use similar sliding door hardware only a sliding pocket door disappears as it vanishes into an adjoining cavity within a wall (a pocket) and is therefore invisible when in the opened position.

Even though most wood pocket doors are interior pocket doors and not exposed to the weather, they do tend to warp due to changes in the environment which may render wood pocket doors useless and inoperable as they are not freely sliding in and out of the pocket for which they were designed.

By definition, sliding pocket doors should smoothly glide in and out of the cavity provided for storing or hiding them when not in use. Signs of malfunctioning wood pocket door would include not freely gliding, sticking, rubbing against the frame (damaging the finish), or getting stuck altogether either inside or outside the pocket.

The AIA and industry standards in the pocket door hardware manufacturers channel allow for a certain degree of warping to accommodate a wood pocket door’s potential to move according to changes in the environment. For instance, a 3-0 7-0 wood pocket door is considered straight and not warped, if it has a 1/4-inch variance in it. Anything over 1/4-inch is considered a warped pocket door.

That is to say that your pocket door contractor, builder, installer, and the hardware provider have taken all of this in account, and everything is built to accommodate this quarter-inch variance. These would not be considered high precision wood pocket sliding doors.

If you want high precision wood pocket doors, there is hope for you thanks to new patent and patent pending pocket door building technologies introduced by inventor and founder of Sing Core, the revolutionary Eco-friendly lightweight, high strength, pocket door building material that enables the biggest door manufacturers and best millworks in the world to create pocket doors of any style, shape, or size that can be

Guaranteed Warp-free for 50 Years

The only way to build an Eco-friendly, lightweight, high strength wood pocket door that can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for 50 years, is if it has Sing Core inside. In fact, the biggest door companies in the world know this, and are already doing it, thanks to Sing’s core.

Wood Pocket Door Problems

It’s all about overcoming all the various challenges associated with wood pocket doors, especially if they are large oversized wood pocket doors.

We’ve already determined that keeping your pocket doors straight and true is a huge concern. In the past, the insertion of heavy material, such as a steel frame, could be built into the door to help keep it straight, or it has been assumed that heaviness was associated with strength.

Not he case with Sing’s core, which is both lightweight and stronger than steel pound for pound (independently tested at 660+ PSI). Next up you have the relatively low precision of other heavier materials, and the more you work with them the more compromised the precision is. Not so with Sing Core.

Sing Core is one of the highest precision lightweight high strength building materials in the world, sporting .006 in. tolerances.

This is how to make high precision wood pocket doors.

This is the perfect way to approach a double pocket door project, which, as you may have guessed, could present twice as many potential problems as a single prehung pocket door.

As you can see, Sing Core is an integral part of high-end pocket door construction and now you know how to build the best pocket door in the world.

Keep in mind that while Sing Core helps to build the best sliding pocket doors which provide added safety, security, privacy and superior function, your classic custom pocket door project would not be complete without utilizing an entire team to yield the best results.

High-end pocket doors are used for architectural effect, and to pull off the kinds of results exemplified by the best wood pocket doors with Sing Core inside, you will need to have the other artisans in place as well.

10×12 ft 3″ thick warp-free 1/8″ oak 520 lbs

Sing Core does not actually make doors. What they do is to provide the biggest door companies in the world, the finest millworks, and top manufacturers of custom wood pocket doors with the best patented lightweight, high strength, fully insulated, and warp-free base doors which are used to create the one of a kind masterpieces that Sing Core is known for.

“We could not do it alone,”

says inventor, Peter Sing, whose factory only supplies the basics to others who turn his substrate into art. And likewise, the door companies, millworks, and custom wood pocket door manufacturers admit,

“We could not do it without Sing Core.”

Because there’s no other way to build a fully sustainable lightweight, insulated, and warp-free wood pocket door, unless it has Sing Core inside.

March 10, 2020 No Comments

Metal Pivot Doors

Metal pivot doors include modern steel doors which are by far the most popular modern metal front doors in demand today.

Today’s modern metal door can take on a wide variety of visual representations and can include the combining of many different materials to achieve a unique architectural design, look and feel.

Modern steel front doors are leading the pack in the arena of modern steel doors, for many reasons, which include the wide variety of steel materials which are available for making your modern metal door, such as hot rolled steel, cold rolled steel, diamond plate steel, galvanized steel, and stainless steel modern metal front doors.

Of all the varieties of steel doors the steel pivot door is the most prestigious and the bigger the pivot door the more attention is garnered when encountering such an architectural contemporary work of art.

When approaching large modern steel entry doors, certain challenges tend to arise when approaching this type of design because any metal pivot door of that size is going to be extremely heavy, and if it was constructed using traditional welding processes, you will sacrifice the precision of your contemporary steel entry doors.

Sing Core solves all the problems associated with steel doors

Solving the problems associated with large contemporary steel doors is what inventor Peter Sing’s patented and patent-pending true flat technologies are all about. His invention, aptly referred to as “Sing Core” is the secret ingredient inside the most noted large door designs found in the most exclusive locations throughout the United States, and the world at large.

What makes Sing’s core so special?

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High Precision

When you start welding on a modern steel door, you will lose the precision of that door, as welding may be an effective way to join steel components structurally, but it damages and distorts the steel in the process. Sing’s patented steel fabrication process does not use heat or welding of any kind which preserves the integrity of the steel throughout, and Sing’s core is already high precision, sporting tolerances of +/- .006-inch.

Lightweight

The issue of heavy weight is the first thought that comes to mind as Sing’s core is so effective at reducing the weight of the otherwise overweight modern steel pivot doors, which results in a door that can be shipped less expensively, easier to handle in the shop and on the job site, and requires much less expensive “heavy duty” hardware to accommodate these modern steel exterior doors with Sing Core inside. Whatever the steel weighs (+ 10%) will be the weight of the door. The heaviest gauge you would need is 18G, and 20G is best and looks like a solid steel blank.

Stronger than Steel

Sing’s revolutionary technologies empower contemporary architects, door designers, the biggest and best companies to provide their clientele with modern stainless steel entry doors that are lightweight yet stronger than steel pound for pound. Sing Core was tested to far exceed 660 PSI.

How can 20 Gauged steel be so much stronger? Why? See unbreakable glass:

Glass stronger than steel? Even hitting unbreakable mirror with a hammer does not break.

While solving the issues associated with weight and strength would be surpass the expectations of anyone looking for such a solution prior to Sing’s invention, there are other advantages to having Sing Core incorporated within your modern steel door design.

Fully Insulated

While building a torsion box door might be a enough to handle the weight requirements, Sing fills the voids, which world normally be left open, with rigid recycled foam which offers any such door the ability to offer insulation for both climate control and sound deadening qualities.

50-year Warp-free Guarantee

Only doors made with Sing’s core inside can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail (including structure) for 50 years. We know of no other company can do that.

That’s why the biggest and most renowned door companies in the world say,

“There was just no way it could be done before we had Sing’s core.”

Of course, steel is not the only metal used to make metal pivot doors, aluminum pivot doors are also among the more popular contemporary metal doors.

Sing Core specializes in contemporary metal front doors made in the united states aluminum door modern metal door designs. Though most are commercial aluminum door pivot door applications, aluminium pivot front doors are becoming increasingly popular in high-end residential projects as the are growing in popularity amidst other architectural modern metal front door designs.