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Sliding Door Manufacture

What exactly does it take to make a superior sliding door? There are many steps and phases which the best sliding door go through in order to assure the best sliding door manufacture process is followed.

First, you start with your unique vision of the perfect sliding door for your application. What might you like it to look like? Do you want a natural wood sliding door? How might you like the grain to be oriented. You get to choose. You are the designer. You can choose from traditional vertical grain or horizontal grain, or for that contemporary sliding door design, you might like to mix it up and have grain pieces with varying orientations throughout the design of the most modern sliding door aesthetic.

Your idea might include a more industrial approach and desire a metal sliding door. Hot rolled steel sliding doors have a unique attention-grabbing effect on anyone who encounters such a work of art. You could specify and have custom manufactured sliding doors made with any type of metal. For instance, you could have an aluminum sliding door, brass sliding door, cold rolled steel sliding door, copper sliding door, diamond plate steel sliding door, galvanized steel sliding door, stainless steel sliding door, etc.

When you’re creating your ultimate sliding door, you can use any available flat building material in your sliding door’s design. Dare to create the most unique architectural sliding door possible to demonstrate your artistic prowess.

What about glass? Sliding glass doors are particularly advantageous when you desire a visual connection to the landscape surrounding your space. Glass light cutouts can be placed anywhere in your door in any shape or size. A large window opening would yield a French door approach to your sliding door. And don’t forget, you could use mirrored glass in case you have a mirror interior sliding door in mind.

Then there is the size of your sliding door. Will it be of a normal size? Or do you envision a large sliding door. These days, it seems like the larger the sliding door, the better. You can go entirely from floor to ceiling with your large sliding door if you’re so inclined.

Sliding Door Problems?

Although you are encouraged to exercise all your creative wherewithal to create the perfect custom sliding door, note there are some challenges you may run into when designing such a masterpiece.

First of all, there is the sliding door hardware which is your first potential for failure of your sliding door over time. Because sliding door operate with wheels or rollers back and forth along a track. The sliding portion could be managed by the base of the door or from the top of the door, or both top and bottom combined. Regular use of the door, as you may well know, will cause problems with the hardware.

If you’re designing a large sliding door, the weight of the door could cause the hardware to fail prematurely and may have the potential to add significant stress and strain on the structure depending on the weight and size or your door, especially if it is a very large and heavy sliding door.

The larger the door, the greater potential the door will fail to warp. If your sliding door is made of wood, wood is notorious for moving due to environmental changes. Regardless of what your sliding door is made of, it is likely subject to warp if it is an exterior door, exposed to the elements or hit by sunlight.

Sliding Door Solutions

The best sliding doors are manufactured with Sing Core inside. Patented Sing Core provides the solution to the main problems facing sliding door manufacturers. Sliding doors with Sing Core inside are one-third the weight of other solid core sliders. Since the door hardware is based on your sliding door’s weight, you save money on the original hardware costs as well as installation costs.

A lightweight sliding door means less stress and strain on the hardware and structure with regular use, which translates to saving in expensive maintenance cost of your sliding door over time.

A warping sliding door is of concern to all sliding door manufacturers, and Sing Core answer the call as the end of all warping worries because premium Sing Core helps the biggest, best, and most powerful sliding door manufacturers provide warp-free sliding doors of any size, made of any material, on a daily basis.

Why Sing Core Inside?

Sing Core imbues your custom sliding with attributes you might have not even thought of specifying in your contemporary architectural door. Features and benefits including (but not limited to):

1. Eco-friendly and sustainable
2. Lightweight (1/3rd of less than other solid cores)
3. High Strength (660+ PSI)
4. Fully insulated (your choice of R 3.5 or R 6.5 per inch)
5. With or without glass/light openings any shape/size
6. Made of any material (any wood species, concrete, fiberglass, HPL, Kevlar, MDF, metal, etc.)
7. Any size, even extremely big (up to 50 ft.)
8. Warp-free and structure guaranteed for 50 years

Yes, you read that right.

50-year Warp-free Guarantee

Having Sing Core inside your sliding door is the only way to build a lightweight large sliding door of any size out of any material that is Eco-friendly, fully insulated, and can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, cup, or otherwise fail for 50 Years!

The next time you’re daydreaming about your ultimate sliding door contribution to the world, you might want to consider specifying, “Sing Core inside,” like the most predominant sliding door manufacturers in the world.

Sliding Door Prices

Curious and ready?

Want pricing on your dream door? Submit your price quote request for a quick estimate. All you need to know to get a price is the

Length + Width + Thickness + Skin

Easy pricing is established by knowing what you want, the length, the width, and thickness of your custom sliding door, and the surface (skin) finish material you desire. See our new C Series line of Affordable Barn Door and Sliding Closet Doors.

Note: Sing Core does not make sliding doors. We supply the best sliding door manufacturers, custom door builders, millworks and any sliding door company with our patented sliding door products which enable them to provide their clients with the best warp-free sliding doors in the world, backed by a 50-year no fail guarantee.

If you are a homeowner, contact your local custom sliding door manufacturer or millwork and tell them you want, “Sing Core inside,” your door.

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Aluminum Pivot Doors

The number one name in Eco-friendly lightweight and high strength aluminum pivot doors is Sing Core. There is no other patented manufacturing method can create an Eco-friendly lightweight aluminum pivot door that is fully insulated and stronger than steel pound for pound.

This aluminum pivot door weighs only 178 lbs!

This aluminum pivot door weighs only 178 lbs!

Though there is some confusion about how to obtain a Sing aluminum pivot door because Sing Core does not manufacture a retail ready aluminum pivot door. Sing Core creates their one-of-a-kind aluminum pivot door blanks, then sends it to your favorite pivot door company, custom metal pivot door manufacturer, aluminum fabrication plant, or millwork for the final touches.

You may order Sing aluminum doors from any of your regular aluminum pivot door suppliers.

21 ft tall warp-free aluminum edge pivot door

Routinely, architects specify “Sing Core inside” their architectural aluminum pivot doors. Sing Core works together with the top aluminum pivot door manufacturers in the world, who seek the best high-end thermally enhanced aluminum pivot door solutions.

Large, over-sized aluminum pivot doors are the Sing Core specialty because big aluminum pivot doors are either lightweight or strong, but only Sing Core provides an insulated aluminum pivot door which is both lightweight and super strong and are often referred to as, “The best metal doors,” available today.

Sing aluminum pivot doors are custom Made in the USA, created utilizing local labor and locally-sourced materials made in America, with very little energy expended, and no toxic manufacturing processes. The lighter weight saves in handling, transportation, and installation costs for a reduced carbon footprint and a pristine, sustainable aluminum pivot door contribution for a better United States of America.

Interior pivot doors made of aluminum with Sing Core inside are fully insulated for increased privacy when in the closed position, increasing privacy and security between adjoining spaces and are commonly specified for use as extra-large aluminum room dividers that pivot on any specific pivot point access from center or aluminum offset axis pivot door, even extreme edge pivot door hinges.

The lightweight and added insulation without compromising the overall strength of the door makes Sing Core the obvious choice when used inside aluminum pivoting room dividers for the acoustical advantages of sound isolation.

Aluminum pivot door prices vary across the board, and while these may not be the most expensive aluminum pivot door systems available, Sing Core does tend to cater towards the more high-end modern aluminum pivot door marketplace.

For increased security concerns in American aluminum pivot door products, aluminum impact resistant pivot doors are increasing in popularity and Sing Core is making an impact on the security industry charged with providing safe and secure commercial aluminum pivot doors.

You might be surprised how many times you’ve already encountered Sing Core inside storefront aluminum pivot doors, or in many educational, scientific, industrial or military applications.

Big aluminum pivot doors

We’ve often heard, “If no one can do it, call Peter Sing.” This is the most common inquiry made which introduces architects and engineers to the invaluable resource Sing Core can provide when overcoming the challenges of weight, size, insulation properties, or high precision aluminum pivot doors.

Take an exterior aluminum pivot entry door, for example. They are usually taller, and wider than other pivoting doors. If one side of the large aluminum slab faces the building’s exterior, and the other faces a more climate-controlled interior, this is a recipe for disaster.

This is why most pivoting entrance doors fail, and if your exterior aluminum pivot door fails, it may not reflect well upon your engineering, design, or creative capabilities. That’s why most companies will not warranty a large aluminum pivot door if it is over a certain size, because it will likely fail. If not soon, most likely at the next change of season. But not if it has Sing Core inside.

Each aluminum pivot door is a one of a kind work of art handmade in USA

Every premium aluminum pivot door from Sing Core comes with a 50-year warp-free and structural guarantee. Thanks to Sing’s True Flat Team, each Sing aluminum door blank is custom Made in the USA specifically for its intended use and performance expectations, and each door is guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for 50 years if used for the purpose it was created for, and no other material is so high precision.

Because Sing Core does not use welding in the patented creation process of their 50-year guaranteed aluminum pivot doors, they have extremely high tolerances for high precision aluminum pivot door manufacturing with Sing Core’s =/- .006-inch tolerances.

Which also makes the Sing aluminum pivot door the best substrate to use for a modern glass and aluminum pivot door or wood and aluminum doors. While wood might be a tug-of-war challenge for any other aluminum pivot door blank, now you can mix and match aluminum with wood without having to stress over your next aluminum pivot door with wood project, regardless of size.

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The Best Metal Doors

Metal doors offer many advantages over other types of doors and are commonly featured as metal security doors, in commercial, industrial, institutional, and health care fields. You want the best metal doors because all kinds of metal doors can present problems throughout the manufacturing, installation, and maintenance of a metal door’s life.

Of all the metal doors available in the marketplace today, steel doors are the most common, followed by stainless steel doors, aluminum doors, brass doors, bronze doors, cold rolled steel doors, hot rolled steel doors, Galvannealed steel doors, and galvanized steel doors.

Steel Doors

Steel doors steal the show when it comes to metal doors. Steel front doors are by far the most popular of all steel door applications. Heavy duty steel security doors are sought out for the obvious reasons to enhance safety and security for important personnel or high-risk environments.

 

 

Commercial Steel Doors

The most prevalent commercial metal doors are custom steel doors created to serve as a metal door in a clean room, protection from extreme weather conditions, coolers and freezers. Or to fill large openings in loading docks, warehouses, parking garages, nautical and aircraft hangers.

Because metal doors are so heavy, leading to increased care and maintenance, hollow metal doors are becoming more commonplace as they are less expensive and are virtually dispensable. Rather than fixing or repairing hollow metal door, they are easy enough to simply discard and replace them with another inexpensive hollow steel door.

Government installations use metal steel doors, but its not enough to just have a door made of metal, they have greater expectations in terms of high-precision and high-performance. The most distinguishing users of metal doors are seeking out manufacturers of steel doors which can deliver better precision and performance. Architects, designers, engineers, and custom metal door manufacturers are on the lookout for the best steel doors.

Architectural Metal Doors

Sing Core puts the power to create any type of metal door made of any type of metal available. Including, but not limited to, stainless steel, aluminum, brass, bronze, cold rolled steel, hot rolled steel, Galvannealed doors, and galvanized steel doors, just to name a few.

Now your architectural metal doors are only limited by your imagination. With Sing Core inside you can design the biggest, most impressive, oversized doors (doors of any size, up to 50 ft. or more) in any style, with or without light cutouts or window openings, which may include one or more man-doors. The sky’s the limit.

Join the likes of I.M. Pei and other leading contemporary architects in creating enormous one-of-a-kind metal doors and leave your mark in the architectural world.

 

 

The Best Steel Doors

The best steel doors have characteristics which differentiate them from other metal doors which are more readily available. The best steel doors will deliver high marks on the following metal door attributes:

1. Lightweight
2. High-strength
3. High-precision
4. Insulated
5. Low-maintenance
6. Eco-friendly
7. Guaranteed

Lightweight Steel Doors

Sing Core makes the most lightweight steel doors which have solid composite cores throughout which weight little more than hollow steel doors, but with increased performance in all related areas across the board, which is the first item of business when considering whether your metal doors can pass the best metal door tests.

High Strength Steel Doors

Without compromising weight (see lightweight steel doors), Sing Core enables the best metal door manufacturers to provide their clientele with the best in superior strength performance. Even compare in side by side independent analysis, Sing Core is rated at more than 660 PSI, which is stronger than solid steel pound-for-pound, without all the unnecessary weight.

High Precision Steel Doors

When it comes to metal door manufacturing, Sing Core door making technology uses manufacturing methods which are may times more accurate than common welding used in metal door manufacturing. In fact, Sing Core possess the highest tolerances for metal door fabrication at +/- .006 tolerances, imbuing Sing Core with the highest possible precession for demanding, high end jobs.

Insulated Steel Doors

It’s not hard to fathom how safety and security can benefit from a highly insulated steel door. Whether in high end commercial or industrial applications, or amidst health care or residential applications, the addition of high insulation can offer many benefits, making Sing’s metal doors the most energy efficient steel doors.

Sing Core delivers insulation options throughout metal doors to provide added safety and security, which provide the end user benefits which can be demonstrated as sound-deadening and increased climate control characteristics. Sing Core is often featured inside the most effective sound proof metal doors and refrigeration metal doors capitalizing on the high insulation value of having Sing Core inside.

Low Maintenance Steel Doors

Metal doors with Sing Core inside are the most comprehensive of all doors when it comes to reducing maintenance costs over time. For instance, metal doors will mainly fail due to warp or deterioration over time. Unless you’re using disposable metal doors, you will be faced with regular maintenance issues, unless your metal doors have Sing Core inside.

Imagine having a metal door which requires very little maintenance over time. Metal doors with Sing Core inside are covered by the only known comprehensive 50-year guarantee in the industry. The guarantee covers everything from door warp to the door’s structure for fifty years. We know of no other door manufacturer which guarantees their doors to remain warp-free for 50 years, including the structure of the door over time.

Eco-friendly Steel Doors

For years, Sing Core has been the most earth-friendly way to manufacture high precision doors in a safe, sane, and earth-friendly manner, often touted as the most sustainable over time. The expected life of a metal door with Sing Core inside is 100 years, though it is guaranteed to last 50 years. No need to replace your steel doors except in the changing of design characteristics.

Sing Core uses very little energy and no toxic skilled-metal manufacturing methods with little or no waste in their patented manufacturing process of metal doors. Plus, due to their extreme light weight, these metal doors consume less energy in the delivery process, are much easier to manipulate and maneuver throughout the installation process, adding to the sustainability of Sing’s steel doors’ lifespan from creation throughout time.

That’s why you will find Sing Core used in very sensitive environments such as museums and archival installations which require very low volatile organic compounds (VOC) to protect their invaluable assets for centuries.

Guaranteed Steel Doors for 50 Years

Above all, your metal doors are backed in writing for remaining warp-free for 50 years, including the full structure over time. You can rest assured that you can have your steel doors guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for fifty years.

 

 

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Sliding Door Evolution

Welcome to the sliding door evolution whose time has come. Architects and designers are looking at new ways to approach the challenges which one faces when incorporating sliding doors and windows. There is a lot more to take into consideration than your ordinary hinged door, especially if you throw a few variables into the mix, taxing the ability of the door engineers to solve potential problems.

This is the new sliding door evolution, pressing the envelope beyond your parent’s sliding door into an entirely new sliding door revolution. This new generation of sliding doors includes sliding doors which can be immense in size, made of a variety of available materials, including wood, the most difficult genre of sliding door making material due to its propensity to move according to changes in the environment causing the wooden sliding doors to warp.

Sliding door warping is probably the top reason why sliding doors fail, which can lead to damage to the sliding door’s finish, hardware, or even the supporting structure. Good news for entire companies who service sliding doors that fail, bad news for the people, companies, and organizations which paid top dollar for a uniquely designed, highly functional sliding door.

Top-of-the-line high-end sliding doors and windows are expensive and when a client pays a lot of money for a one-of-a-kind door that no one else has, their performance expectations increase exponentially. They think if they pay that kind of money for a sliding door, it should be high precision, fully functional, have characteristics that separate it from less expensive over-the-counter doors, and most of all fail-proof. Which, until now, was too much to ask for.

The most discerning architectural sliding door designers and engineers can now create a high-precision sliding door made of any material that outperforms any traditional sliding door, bar none, thanks to inventor, Peter Sing’s patented Sing Core. Sing knows how to build large non-warp sliding doors.

If your sliding door has Sing Core inside, you can create a large solid composite core door (up to 50 ft. or more) that can be lightweight (1/3 the weight, or less, of other door solutions), yet stronger than steel pound-for-pound (660+ PSI). Beyond lightweight and high strength attributes, you also can enjoy an Eco-friendly sliding door solution which also offers, full insulation for increased sound deadening and climate control capabilities.

While just these attributes alone would satisfy the custom sliding door manufacturers of interior sliding doors, what about exterior sliding doors?

Exterior Sliding Doors

Sliding doors on the exterior of a structure are by far the most problematic because these doors face the most dramatic of circumstances, with one side facing the structure’s interior and the other side potentially (or fully) exposed to the elements. This is a recipe for sliding door disaster. The more extreme the conditions on either side of the door, the more potential for failure due to warping.

With Sing Core inside your sliding door, you can rest assured that your sliding door is not going to warp. In fact, the inventor himself, personally guarantees each door will not bend, twist, warp, or otherwise fail (including the structure) for 50 years. This is unheard of in the door industry until today. Sing Core is responsible for making some of the most extreme doors in the world possible.

Now, you can have a fine one-of-a-kind custom high-end sliding door manufactured just for you, with all the bells and whistles you could possibly imagine, even if your design calls for an extremely large sliding door opening, fully-backed by Sing 50-year no-fail guarantee.

Therefore, you find Sing’s doors in the most predominant locations throughout the United States, from beneath the sea (US Navy) to outer space (NASA) and everywhere in between. Sing Core is changing the way door engineers and sliding door companies create the most highly advanced sliding doors in the world. This is the next evolutionary step in sliding door technology.

Yes, you find doors with Sing Core inside in the most expensive multi-million-dollar homes (like this one), and amidst the campuses of Fortune 500 companies, sophisticated science labs, universities, and are more rapidly appearing in the modern designs of industrial and military installations, but that doesn’t mean you won’t find Sing Core inside your residential home.

Sing Core is now getting the interest of real estate developers, not just the multi-million-dollar spec home builders. It is not unusual to see door shipments of 700 sliding doors being loaded onto trucks for delivery from Sing Core’s factory located in the Pacific Northwest’s Washington State to the newest real estate development(s) which could be near you. We work with construction companies and help them win the bid for quantity commercial door orders. and often help direct inquiries to help match Sing sliding doors for homeowners.

You may be living in a condominium or apartment and have a sliding door with Sing Core inside and not even know about it. And if you don’t have a sliding Sing door, maybe you should be thinking about joining the sliding door revolution and getting one for yourself. See our new C Series line of Affordable Barn Door and Sliding Closet Doors.

Not surprisingly, most of the sliding doors with Sing Core inside ship to the Eastern seaboard, with most of them landing in the greater New York area where the specific characteristics of Sing’s invention are most heralded among the high-end contemporary architecture and design firms, even reaching the highest location possible on the top floor of the One World Trade Center.

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Master Quality Door Veneer Surfaces

Our Master Quality Doors are Complimented by Our Ultra High Quality Skin and Surface Choices

Wood Veneers

Veneer allows us to create a high end finish with less weight and cost while offering a wide assortment of beautiful door surfaces.  There are a number of different types of veneers that all provide excellent options that will compliment the styles of your structures.   Difference species generally demand a different price.  Some popular examples are Maple, White Oak, Mahogany, Cherry, Alder, and Hemlock.  Veneers are sold in bundles and range in price, but generally use the most flawless wood to provide the absolute most appealing visual aspects for your doors.  Standard veneer thickness is .020″, and is often used to decorate high end furniture, cabinetry, cabinetry, floors, and even plywood. You can trust Sing Core to veneer your doors, alternatively you can get substrate only and have your veneer applied locally.*

The beauty of veneer is the high quality wood grain appearance that provides you with the most natural aesthetics.  Each piece is completely unique, because it is cut from the actual logs.  Not only does this allow you an amazing modern appearance, but also you can achieve a more vintage, timeless, or antique look.  Normally, better quality veneers are used for doors, because customers want the best looking doors they can possibly get.  Door grade veneer comes in a few distinct grades.

Huge Pivot Door Mahogany Wood Veneer

Gorgeous Massive Mahogany Wood Veneer Door

Face Cut Options

Rotary Cut Veneer – Created by spinning the log and peeling off sheets, almost like unrolling a roll of toilet paper, rotary cut veneer is the most common type of veneer.  The advantage of this type of veneer is that it results in one continuous sheet.  It is a very cost effective way of producing veneer, but it results in a very unpredictable grain pattern.

Plain Sliced or Flat Cut Veneer – This is the second most common cut.  In this method, thin layers are sliced one at a time along the width of the log.  The slices, which are also called leaves, because the blade works its way from the top of the log to the bottom, there is a gradual transition in the grain pattern.  This method of cutting parallel to the growth rings results in a V-shaped pattern that is often seen on sheets of plywood.

 

Rift Cut Veneer – Another interesting method is the rift cut process, which allows for a more straight-grained look.  In this method the log is quartered, then cut perpendicular to the grain in repeating arches.  The advantage to this is that you get a relatively uniform grain appearance.  The disadvantage to rift sawn veneer is that it costs more, because the process is more time consuming.

Quarter Sliced Veneer – This type of veneer is also sometimes called quarter cut or quarter sawn veneer.  This cut is often specified when the customer wants an exceptionally straight grain appearance.  First, the log is quartered, which allows each quarter to be sliced perpendicular to the growth rings.  Since leaves are cut more narrowly than plain sliced, they are much more easily lined up with other leaves, allowing for superior uniformity.  Despite it’s vast advantages, this method requires a larger log diameter compared to the alternative methods.  This method also achieves a sort of flaking appearance, created when the veneer knife bisects medullary rays in the tree.

Beautiful Maple Veneer Skin

Beautiful Maple Veneer Skin

 

Veneer Matching Options

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No matter what cut of veneer is applied, without proper veneer matching, your project will not turn out as expected.  Veneer matching is a true art form.  The job of matching veneer is a precise job that requires a detailed approach.  The appearance is partially determined by how the veneer slices are lined up on the doors.

Book Match Veneer – Every other veneer leaf is turned over, like the pages of a book.  With this method, the veneer will be mirrored between each consecutive two leaf section, resulting in a repeating series of symmetrical patterns.  This method is preferred by many, because of the continuity of grain.  This method produces both ascending and descending prominent characteristics of the grain.  Not all cuts of veneer can be used with the Book Matching method, however, but plain, quarter, or rift sliced veneers can all be used for this purpose.  This book end formation tends to reflect light and accept stains differently.  With this method there is also potential for wide color variation, known as “barber pole” in some species or flitches.  Despite these variations, they are still considered desirable.

Random Match Veneer – This method produces a more chaotic appearance, because pieces are generally unmatched, as if the applicator has taken a series of boards and lined them up on the surface of the door.  This produces a more old fashioned look, as something that was perhaps built before modern methods of veneer were invented.  With this method, there is often a deliberate method to reduce grain consistency.

Continuous Match Veneer – This is when the pieces of veneer are used for both the door and the transom, allowing for a very consistent look between the door and the transom.

End Match Veneer – This is generally selected for doors with transoms.  This match uses a single piece of veneer that runs from the bottom to the top of the door.   Veneer can be turned turned at the joint to achieve this appearance.

Slip Match Veneer – This is one of the quickest methods of matching veneer, but requires higher quality veneer that is fairly uniform in appearance.  Sheets are slipped out on the the surface one after the other, creating a wave of repeating patterns.  Some frown on this method, because of the abrupt joints.  This differs from book match veneer in that book match is better at hiding the joints.  Uniformity of color is superior in this method, because each piece has a similar level of light refraction.  It also allows for a relatively straight grain pattern.

Blueprint Veneer – is sequential veneer from a single source to cover an entire area. Complete rooms are the most impressive when they are blueprint veneered. Some jobs include matching blueprint door skins as well. Proceed with caution, making sure there is enough source material to complete the job, and there is no room for mistakes.

Natural Variations

Because wood is an organic product, each piece has its own characteristics.  There is a vast array of grain patterns and formations, which can vary among trees and different flitches.  Because of that, some trees may not meet standards.  Other trees may considered of exceptional quality.  Prices may also vary depending on the quality and appearance of the veneer.  Because of variations in natural grain of each tree and differences in cuts, you can experience amazingly unique grain, pattern, and color, for each leaf of veneer, which translates into an an unlimited variations in door appearances.

In all cases, the natural wood quality will improve and compliment design elements, especially if the wood is applied in its natural state, unfettered by paints and enamels which might hinder the actual beauty of the wood.

Some species, like maple and birch can show a wide variety of color ranges.  When it comes to maple and birch unlimited amounts of sapwood and heartwood, large portions may be unusable, because of unacceptable color.  Sapwood lighter in color, while heartwood is darker in color.  There is also the issue with light, dark, and color streaks, spots, and color variation that results from mixing sapwood with heartwood.  If these sorts of variants in color and grain are not desired by you or your customers, veneer must be selected accordingly.  If lighter shades of veneer are desired, you must specify sapwood maple or birch.  If darker shades are required, you should select heartwood, however, this type is often limited in supply.

 

 * = Professional veneering can be very tricky. If you are getting substrate from Sing Core and having your millwork (or someone else) apply the veneer, be certain to affirm that they have the expertise to apply the veneer appropriately. We use the highest level of professional veneer professional and techniques. We can guarantee our veneering, if you have veneering done off-site, it is their responsibility to do it correctly. A faulty veneer could jeopardize your Sing warranty.

 

Door Graphics and Murals

Very Large Sliding Door With and Without Mural

Our doors make an exceptional surface for applying murals, canvases, or printed wraps and images.  This is an excellent way to make an otherwise standard looking door, beautiful and vibrant.

In recent years, graphics, scenes, or photos applied to the surfaces of doors that turn your openings into true works of art.  This style of door is only limited by your imagination!  Some examples are as follows:

  • Fine Art: Amazing portraits, scenery and landscapes, animals, objects like cars and still life images
  • Photos: Nature, wildlife, underwater scenes, forests
  • Designs: Patterns, colors, shapes, and other abstract art
  • Wood Grains: Any sort of wood species, style, or colors
  • Plants: Beautiful flowers, leaves, barks, and other plant based imagery
  • Textures: Pebbled, rusted, grainy, smooth, baked earth and other textures
  • Other: Anything you can imagine can be printed Sing Core doors as long as you have high quality electronic images and graphic files.

We start with a smooth tempered board or Medium Density Overlay (MDO) for a best quality finish, or select a wood veneer or paint grade option for your highest quality finishes.  This is only limited by your imagination!

 

 

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Sing Core Best of 2018

Sing Core has had a wonderful year in 2018. This year marks the completion of a number of major projects completed by our clients. We are very happy to share their success. Additionally, Sing Core has had the fortune to expand in to a second, large, facility in addition to the one we currently operate in. This will lead to increased production capability, and potential for lower prices. Finally, we have added a number of technological improvements to our sales process including: semi-automatic pricing, automatic shop drawings (now free to all customers), and tighter control of all projects from initial estimate to final delivery.

Expansion in to a Second Facility

Sing Core is celebrating our continued expansion which is taking us to new places and new opportunities for you to experience what it means to have Sing Core inside your high-end products using our new, improved simple pricing method.

We recently bought another factory to expand the services to you, and to celebrate, we’re offering you discounts on all Sing Core products. So, if price was a concern in the past, now might be the best time to try Sing Core inside your products.

Looking for More Factory Space

We’re looking to expand even more! So, if you have a factory with square footage to spare, we are looking to sublet from you. If you have or know of a factory for sale, we might be prepared to buy it from you or someone you know.

Free Shop Drawings and More!

Sing Core has invested a substantial effort in automation and computer assistance regarding its sales and production processes. This includes: semi-automated pricing, automatic shop drawings, and improved project management.

Our pricing model is inherently linked to the specifics of your project, and in the past has required extensive human review and manual data entry. Now, we have a better method where data is automatically routed from your quote request, calculations made, and forms filled out. This means our team has more time to review individual projects, and estimates will get back to you more quickly.

This systems also gives us the power to provide free shop drawings to any customer who requests them.

Additionally, our system improves our ability to follow each project from start to finish, so everything from initial quote request, to sales info, to final production and shipping is fully recorded and available to our team. With massive centralization of data comes the ability to generate forms automatically, and so reduce potential for errors and to keep our whole team informed about the specifics of your project. The bottom line is quick, error-free service for all our customers.

Best Doors of 2018

Sing Core is honored to involved in so many projects, and to push the boundaries of what is possible with doors and door technology, all across the United States. Although there are too many to include all of them, below are some of the most impressive projects we are delighted to show you from the last year.

14′ Foot Tall French Door

Industry leading millworks, architects, and high end designers call on us to make all kinds of doors that present far too much of a challenge for other door manufacturers to construct.  This was the very door many of our customers called “mission impossible.”

This 14 foot tall French door can be easily carried and transported by just a single worker, yet, pound for pound, it’s stronger than steel and warp free guaranteed for 50 years.  Here at singcore, we make the impossible possible! Doing the impossible while providing you with exceptional quality products is part of our philosophy here at Sing Core.

27′ Wide, 9′ Tall Sliding Door / Moveable Wall

Sing Core is proud to accept large sliding door, movable wall, or temporary wall projects the would cause other door core producers. Once example is this amazing door produced in mid 2018. In this project the greatest qualities of Sing Core’s patented honeycomb core come to the forefront:

  • Light Weight
  • High Stength
  • Sound Deadening Qualities
  • Modular Construction
  • Extreme Warp Resistance

This wall was designed to be finished with an amazing custom mural. Imagine giant dragons, lush forests, or any image that sets the mood of your company’s work space.

With our spline joining system, seams in your large moving wall not a problem. The stability we provide means your custom art wall will be less likely to be damaged do to cracking paint. And, the panels light weight means it can be both a dream to operate and to look at.

Oversize Pivot Doors

This pivot door represent the best reasons why Sing Core excels in these types of applications. Our light weight, yet strong core technology lends itself perfectly a functional and resilient door. Clients will find their Sing Core pivot door easy to use, and not too bulky, but still with a strong feeling like steel in their hands.

Likewise, the contractors, millworks, architects, and trade professionals who we have the pleasure to work with feel confident in our exceptionally panels because of our industry leading 50-year warp-free guarantee. Our panels are so straight, and last for so long that we have no fears about their longevity, and this confidence makes our customers secure in their work.

 

 

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Sing Core is always seeking to expand, and drive the way forward with new clients, new projects, and even more innovation. Contact us to day with your next project to see how we can assist you!

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Pocket Door

Pocket doors have become an integral part of modern architectural design.  Despite the many advantages of pocket doors, they do present unique challenges in both the manufacturing and the installation process.

pair of 14 ft. x 3.5 ft. x 2.5 in. warp-free sliding pocket doors

About Pocket Doors

Pocket doors are desirable as they are invisible in the opened position as the pocket sliding doors are hidden away in cavities within the walls in one, or two opposing, wall(s). Pocket doors serve as a retractable room divider, functioning as an elegant and effective method to separate one large space or two adjoining spaces, while the sliding door divider(s) disappear(s) into the wall.

Proceed with caution, as pocket doors can be hugely problematic if they move according to changes in the surrounding environment. A warped pocket door will damage the finish as it rubs against neighboring surfaces and if it bends or cups too much can get lodged inside the wall, and the bigger the pocket door, the greater likelihood of warping.

There are many reasons to have your pocket doors made with Sing Core but the number 1 reason is to stop worrying about warped pocket doors once and for all by specifying

Sing Core Inside Your Pocket Door

Thanks to inventor Peter Sing’s patented and patent-pending large pocket door technologies, you can have an Eco-friendly pocket door that is lightweight, high strength, fully insulated for sound deadening and climate control, covered by Sing’s

50 Year Warp-free and Structure Guarantee

There is no other way to build a high precision (Sing Core tolerance is +/- .006 in.) sustainable pocket door that can remain straight and true, spanning the test of time.

The Best Pocket Doors

Sing Core has become known for making some of the largest, most impressive sliding doors on the market.  Pocket doors are sliding doors that slide into a pocket in the wall.  Certain customers have come to know Sing Core, not only for our sliding doors, but also for our magnificent pocket doors.  Introducing the best pocket doors!

Pocket Door Challenges

The concept of pocket doors seems simple very simple.  They are similar to sliding doors in that they slide on tracks and typically use rollers to open and close.  The big difference is that they slide into a pocket that has fixed dimensions inside the wall.  If the door warps or skews, the door cease to function.  You will not be able to open or close the door because warping will change the dimensions of the door.

 

Warp Free Pocket Door

Over decades, we have developed our patented and patent pending materials that allow for super strong, light weight, warp free door construction.  Warping and skewing present significant problems for pocket doors, because pocket doors must slide into a fixed space inside the wall.  Any deviation from specifications will prevent the door from fitting into the space.  When this happens, your door will cease to function.  You will need to buy a new door, change out your hardware that may bend or break as a result of door malfunction.  In some cases, you also need to rebuild your door frame or your walls when they are ruined from doors being opened and closed.

But we have solved all of the problems associated with large pocket doors and large sliding doors.  When you use Sing Core products, you not only get a door that exceeds AWI standards in terms of warpage, you also get a door that’s guaranteed against warping for 50 years.  Because of our special design methods, you will get a door that ensures proper functionality for decades.

Large Pocket Doors

The larger the door the bigger the challenge.  Large pocket doors are more susceptible to warping.  In order to function properly, they must be specially designed to resist warping.  Larger doors must be specially constructed so that they are warp free on installation, as well as, over time.

 

Ultra High Strength – A large pocket door must be exceptionally strong to stand up to the most rigorous use.  At Sing Core, we have revolutionized door strength with Peter Sing’s patented and patent pending technology that allows us to build doors that are very high strength, tested independently at over 660 PSI.

 

Super Light Weight – Up to 90% lighter than solid wood doors.  Sing Core’s specially engineered core uses Peter Sing’s revolutionary design to bring a solid door strength to doors that allows for super light weight performance.

 

Straight/Warp Free – Specially designed stiffeners built into our doors make sure your doors are warp free over the long haul for better performance and function.

 

Structurally Stable – With our groundbreaking process, we can make doors that are built exactly to your specifications, and will not skew or shift over time.  That way, you have a door that functions worry free for decades.

 

Eco-friendly – We support sustainability by using renewable, eco-friendly materials, so our products are better on the environment.

 

Guaranteed – When it comes to guarantees, no company on the market can do better.  Our Sing Core Professional Panels are used for doors and other high end applications where stability and precision are of the utmost importance.  All of our Sing Core Professional panels come with a whopping 50 Year Guarantee against warping, cracking, breaking, and skewing.  Name one other company who can do this.  Most companies don’t even offer a one year guarantee, but we can do this because our products have such a strong track record of performance.

 

No one can make panels as large, yet warp free like we can!  You have our guarantee on that.

 

Proudly Made in America

All of our products are 100% made in the USA.  We take pride in supporting our country.  That’s why you won’t find any products that aren’t made in America here.  We also use high quality inputs that are sourced from local suppliers.

Door Skins

Our door system allows you to specify almost any skin for your doors.  We specialize in high quality wood and metal doors.  We have several options depending on your budget.  Our paint grade ply option is our most economical option.  Next is our hardwood veneer option.  Mahogany, oak, walnut, and alder are popular.  We also use 1/8″ wood stave on our highest end option, which gives you a solid wood appearance, but has our specially engineered core to maintain the light weight feature our doors are famous for.  We also make metal doors.  In our metal doors category, we specialize in cold rolled steel, but we also have a very popular aluminum option.

any door skin hard wood metal aluminum

 

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Large Sliding Bottom Rolling Doors

You will find Sing’s super large, oversized bottom rolling large sliding doors in use over a wide variety of industries such as aviation, commercial, agricultural, and industrial applications.

If you are looking for a lightweight oversized large sliding door that is stronger than steel pound for pound your solution to the size vs. weight ratio has finally arrived.

Due to inventor, Peter Sing’s patented and patent-pending large door technologies, door designers, and engineers of architectural doors have been empowered to take their conceptual contemporary ideas to the next level.

Now, even the largest of sliding doors can become manageable as complete solid units or as modular systems ready for assembly on site, with less need for heavy equipment with reduced threat of on the job injuries which is an ever-present risk when dealing with traditional large sliding bottom rolling doors, but not if your design has Sing Core inside.

These revolutionary lightweight and high-strength materials are having a huge impact on contemporary architecture and design especially in groundbreaking projects involving the largest rolling modern sliding doors in their respective industries.

Government and military applications now have a lightweight high-strength substructure made of Sing Core which can handle the added weight of any heavy weight additional material which may be soundproof and/or blast-proof, reducing the overall weight to one-third or less without compromising safety, security, or high performance.

And no other Eco-friendly, lightweight, dimensionally stable, and insulated building material is more high-precision (+/- .006 in.), stronger than steel (660+ PSI), or sustainable, which comes with a full 50-year warp-free and structure guarantee. 50 years!

When used as substrate material, the added insulation, which is also an integral component of Sing Core’s structural strength, helps add sound deadening characteristics while increasing climate control capabilities of any end product encapsulating it, saving lives and energy.

From beneath the sea (US Navy) to outer space (NASA) and throughout industries everywhere in between, Sing Core is changing the manufacturing methods when approaching the latest developments in the design and deployment of the largest sliding bottom rolling doors.

Whether inside the aerospace flying structures of the top aviation companies or the structures which house them while they are on the ground, lightweight high-strength Sing Core is making huge improvements in performance and reduced maintenance costs over time, when compared to traditional manufacturing methods inside and surrounding large aircraft designs.

While Peter Sing’s patented core material could be used in nearly any phase of construction, and has been used to build entire structures, from foundation to roof, everywhere in between, including most all interior furnishings, it’s premiere use with the highest degree of noticeable increased performance, is when it is featured inside any large rolling slider door system.

Steel buildings are made of it, without the need of a structure frame, which is having a noticeable impact for designers of modern metal building systems and the contemporary architects who are specifying Sing Core in their designs.

Large rolling doors with Sing Core inside can be used in any specific configuration, such as bi parting sliding doors, single-stack sliders, sliding doors floating, or fully suspended doors of large or enormous size.

Keep in mind that Sing’s large sliding bottom rolling door solution is not an out-of-the-box one-stop solution as Sing only provides the base door material which can be covered in nearly any flat building material in his factory located in the Pacific Northwest in Washington State.

Routinely, Sing’s base material is sent to metal fabricators, machine shops, millworks, or custom door manufacturers who supply the finishing details, prep for hardware, and arrange for installation of the behemoth sliding doors.

Not only are Sing’s base door manufactured in the United States but all the material inside these extraordinary one-of-a-kind door blanks are local sourced and each one is like an individually unique work of art fully made in the USA.

If you’re in the planning stages of your next project which may potentially feature large sliding bottom rolling doors, shouldn’t you check with your architect or door designer to see if you should have Sing Core inside your door?