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Interior Barn Doors

When you think of barn doors, you’re likely to think about the exterior sliding doors on old barns, right? Well, not if you’re a contemporary architect or designer, because now it’s quite fashionable to feature interior barn doors throughout your home for that little extra added flair.

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Interior barn doors are similar in appearance to the barn doors that you think about when you think of barn doors, except they are smaller to fit the various door openings around the home’s interior. These interior barn doors operate on interior barn door hardware that varies in appearance as they are individually suited for different design features and styles to fit any visionary taste.

These unique barn style doors are an attention getting throwback to simpler times and can feature distressed surfaces for that special look of rustic interior barn doors. As far as appearances, modern interior barn doors could feature any flat building material adding to the intrigue, flexibility, scalability and outside the box creativity for any of the barn doors in house.

Indoor barn doors could be any of the following types of interior sliding barn doors:

Aluminum barn doors Brass barn doors
Concrete barn doors Cold rolled steel barn doors
Copper barn doors Fiberglass barn doors
FRP barn doors Galvanized steel barn doors
HPL barn doors Kevlar barn doors
LVL barn doors MDF barn doors
Steel barn doors Stainless steel barn doors
Wooden barn doors … just to name a few.

Exceptional Interior Barn Doors

The very best of the best in interior barn doors features Sing Core inside and represents a concerted effort between the manufacturers of patented Sing Core and the finest craftsmen who apply all the finest details at your favorite millwork or custom door manufacturing shop to your interior barn doors for homes creating the most advanced top of the line interior barn doors available today.

Sing Core provides the base materials that give your indoor sliding barn doors huge benefits over any other interior barn door that does not have Sing Core inside. Or instance your interior barn doors could be Eco-friendly, lightweight, high strength, and insulated for climate control and sound deadening capabilities; all this and more, just for having Sing Core inside your barn door interior.

Let’s take a better look at what could be inside your inside barn doors, which could very well be

Lightweight Interior Barn Doors

Having Sing Core inside your interior barn doors for homes will have your indoor barn doors weighing in at a fraction of the weight of traditional stile and rail interior barn door configurations because patented Sing Core’s hybrid solid barn door core weighs about one-tenth the weight of other solid wood substrates, thereby reducing the weight of your barn sliding door by one-third or more overall.

Lighter weight means less overhead costs across the board, saving huge dollars for your project that would otherwise be wasted on extra shipping and handling charges, transportation and handling on the job site, installation costs, expensive interior barn door hardware, and maintenance costs over time.

High Strength Interior Barn Doors

When it comes to concerns about strength, Sing Core has been independently rates at 660 PSI, many times the 10 to 110 PSI of other lightweight barn door core materials. In fact Sing Core is stronger than steel pound for pound. Why might you need such a strong interior barn door? Because this is the key to creating a high precision barn door that can remain straight and true, no matter what size (even very large interior barn doors made of wood).

That’s what enables interior barn doors with Sing Core inside to be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, cup or otherwise fail for 50 years, regardless of size or surface materials used in the creation of your interior sliding barn doors.

Warp-free Interior Barn Doors

Only Sing Core can create a door that can be guaranteed not to fail for 50 years, including full structure warranty. The door companies who use Sing Core admit that the 50 year guarantee far supersedes even their own warranties.

For instance, contractors, millworks and door companies might normally guarantee their own work for ten years (which is a lot, the normal warranty is generally more like one year). Even so, if the project includes interior barn doors that are large in size, say over seven feet tall, each of these door will be individually excluded from the warranty due to their tendency to warp and move according to the change of weather or barometric pressure.

Thanks to Sing Core, these companies no longer have to exclude these large barn doors from their regular service warranties or guarantees, and the extra 40 years are passed on to the end user for the doors that have Sing Core inside.

Insulated Interior Barn Doors

And extra added benefit of having Sing Core inside your barn style interior doors is inherently due to the construction of the core itself. Patented Sing Core is created by starting with a vertical wood grain torsion box core; only the structure grids are not left vacant. These otherwise hollow areas are filled with rigid recycled foam and sandwiched between two structure skins using formaldehyde-free glue.

The resulting interior barn door panel is insulated for both sound deadening and climate control for better separation between spaces, which comes in really handy between areas where a doorway separates rooms with separate functions. Dividing and further defining adjoining spaces which may carry on events or activities running concurrently, such as separating the kitchen from the dining room, or providing more privacy for dens, bedrooms, game rooms, or bathrooms.

All with the elegant appeal of a unique barn style sliding door specifically made for superior performance inside your home.

Interior barn doors with Sing Core inside aren’t for everyone, only the people who want the best and will not settle for less when it comes to the barn doors inside house.

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Unique Front Doors

When it comes to unique front doors, the top designers, architects and visionary end users, think outside the box to achieve the results of creating the best and most unique front doors of all.

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Why all this fascination with unique front doors?

Think about it, what’s the first thing you see when you approach any structure? In most, if not all, cases, your first impression, the first noticeable component of any structure (beside the structure itself) is the front door. If the front door is unique and has enough impact, it will leave a lasting impression, reminding you of your visit at this specific location, every time you recall seeing such a unique front door.

Unique front doors are many times more effective than a calling card. In this day and age, anyone can find you within a few clicks, but how will they remember you?

How do you create unique front doors?

By thinking outside the box. First, you must determine what a unique door is not. Standard doors are a particular size and operate by swinging this way or that utilizing hinges installed on one side of the door. So, for your front door to be unique you must avoid both standard size and side mounted swing hinges.

 

Surprising your visitors with either sliding doors or pivot doors that are large in size are effective ways to leave a lasting impression as unique front doors.

Sliding Unique Front Doors

Sliding door make excellent unique front doors because you don’t see them every day, and if they are fairly large sliding doors, then even better. Sliding doors are the most popular alternative to the swing door, because they can still be thin (standard door thickness) but slide side to side. The structure will have to be wide enough to accommodate the sliding door, or in the case of double sliding door, the pair.

Sliding front doors can operate in full view exposing the sliding door in the open position, or as pocket doors, where the sliding doors are concealed in the open position as they retract into a cavity on the wall. Sliding pocket doors are a unique, more advanced approach to the unique front door quandary.

Sliding doors are standard fare, unless they are large sliding doors. Only then, designers and engineers start to run into problems associated with handling, accommodating, and the maintenance of large sliding doors over time. Why? Because large sliding doors warp, and when they do, the results are not pretty. That’s when architects and engineers begin specifying Sing Core in their designs. Large sliding doors with Sing Core inside are the only Eco-friendly lightweight high strength large sliding doors that can be guaranteed not to warp, twist, bend or otherwise fail (including full structure warranty) for 50 years!

Pivoting Unique Front Doors

The most impressive lasting impressions are left by structures hosting large pivot doors. Hands down large pivot doors outperform any other type of door in terms of garnering attention and leaving them something to think about (and talk about around the water cooler).

And big pivot door are not only taller and wider than the normal run of the mill side swing doors, but to raise the stakes even more, they can be many times thicker than an average door, guaranteed to make anyone stop and take notice.

Of course, these impressive large pivot doors are going to heavier than imaginable just by the sheer enormity of expanded height, width and thickness of your unique front door. This causes great expense in terms of manufacturing, shipping, handling, installation, hardware, and maintenance over time due to warping.

Exterior Pivot Doors

Whether you’ve decided to go with unique sliding doors or pivot doors, realizing that your unique front door will be presenting certain challenges, such as having one side facing the interior environment and the other facing the elements. That’s a recipe for disaster, because it will cause your door to move, and too much movement will compromise the doors integrity. Your unique front door might look gorgeous, but if it won’t secure or seal properly, what good is it?

Built with Sing Core Inside

When you build your large sliding doors or big pivot doors with Sing Core inside, you imbue your Eco-friendly insulated unique front doors with incredible attributes, such as, lightweight (a fraction the weight of other high performance large doors), high-strength (660+ PSI, stronger than steel pound for pound. This accounts for Sing Core’s responsibility in the creation of the best sliding doors and pivot doors.

Any Flat Building Material

Since we build to architectural specification, door blanks can be made and prepared with any flat building material as exterior finish, including any available species of wood (even wood planks), aluminum, brass, concrete, copper, fiberglass, FRP, glass, HPL, Kevlar, LVL, MDF, metal, steel (cold rolled steel, galvanized steel, hot rolled steel, stainless steel), just to name a few. This expands your potential creativity further knowing you are not limited to conventional building methods to achieve the high marks Sing Core brings to the table.

How to Build the Best Doors

Patented Sing Core is a unique hybrid solid structure core that maximizes old and new technologies in a honorably sustainable way by first using a modified torsion box structure (using vertical instead of horizontal wood grain), then the otherwise empty voids are filled with rigid recycled foam (EPS standard, other type of rigid foam/insulation available) adhered and sandwiched between two stress skins. The resulting large sliding door or big pivot door (which could feature any flat building material on the surface) is the only way to build a lightweight sliding door or huge pivot door without risk of failure, plus your premium unique pivot door could be covered by our,

50 Year Warp-free Guarantee

With Sing Core inside all of your sliding doors and pivot doors could be guaranteed not to fail for 50 years, including structure failure. Even if your guaranteed sliding or pivot door is damaged in any way (like running into it with forklift blades) it can be repaired to new condition utilizing basic carpentry skills without compromising the strength, performance or longevity of your unique front door.

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Sliding Patio Doors

 

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As ornate and beautiful as sliding patio doors can be, then can present problems over time, or from season to season, simply based on the changes in climate, especially if they have a certain degree of wood, which most high end clientele seem to like to adorn their sliding patio doors with. The result is a patio door that is similar in appearance to a wooden French door with a large window lite glass opening.

If the opening to the patio is large (which is usually the case for more high end homes) the bigger the door and the thicker the glass. This creates a very heavy door which can present challenges for both the structure and the associated hardware to accommodate such large sliding patio doors.

Sliding door hardware can be expensive, and since we are most likely talking about large and heavy sliding patio doors, they will require heavy duty sliding door hardware, which can be very expensive, often times more expensive than the sliding patio door itself.

To exasperate things even more, unlike interior sliding doors, sliding patio doors are exterior sliding doors. That means on side of the door faces the structure’s interior while the other side faces the elements, which could be quite a contrast on either side of the door. This could potentially cause the sliding patio doors to fail due to warping as it attempts to acclimate to its environment(s). If the sliding door adjusts itself too much, the result may be a sliding patio door that does not seal correctly, or becomes inoperable due to movement.

Other framing treatments may be applied to the sliding patio doors, especially in extreme weather variation locations, like fiberglass sliding patio doors or even aluminum sliding patio doors, in an effort to reduce the inevitable door failure either seasonally or over time.

Enter Sing sliding patio doors. While we do not build sliding patio doors, our sliding patio door blanks are used by the most prestigious door companies, millworks and custom door manufacturers. Using our patented lightweight high strength sliding patio door core, these highly skilled high end providers of the most impressive large sliding patio doors are able to deliver outstanding, nearly maintenance-free large sliding patio doors. These unique one-of-a-kind creations can be guaranteed not to fail due to warping, bending, twisting, or otherwise failing for a full 50 years, guaranteed, including full structure warranty. Even in extreme weather conditions.

Thanks to Sing Core, the best sliding patio doors can feature framing, even large wood framing of a moderate glass lite opening, or even be clad in solid wood, without fear of warp or structure failure.

Plus sliding patio doors with Sing Core inside weigh a fraction of the weight of other heavyweight solid core sliding patio doors. Sliding patio doors which are much lighter in weight reduces the need for heavy duty sliding door hardware, reducing the overall cost of the sliding patio door project altogether.

Other costs are also reduced due to the lighter weight Sing solution, including less handling and shipping cost, carbon footprint, transport, installation, and maintenance costs out of the gate, as well as over time. If your sliding patio door has Sing Core inside, you not only have the best door, but you have made a sound investment in a sustainable sliding patio door which will last the test of time.

You can have the only sliding patio door with a full

50 Year Warp-free Guarantee

No other company can do what patented Sing Core can do.

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State Fair Professional Modular Display Wall System and Service

Sing Core is proud to introduce a new division as an extension of our world famous trade show and museum exhibit systems. For years Sing Core has been a leader in the high tech advancement of museum, art gallery, and trade show displays around the world, and now we’ve come up with a system and associated service to take the pain out of setting up for State Fair presentations.

See: State Fair Display Photo Gallery

 

State Fair Display Systems

The Eco-friendly Sing State Fair Display System is customized to meet the specifications and needs of each State Fair presentation and to maximize the available space, while offering an extremely rigid, high precision display system which is lightweight, high strength, and completely modular.

The Sing State Fair Display System can be quickly and easily assembled with the highest degree of professional accuracy, perfectly showcasing any feature. Although it does not take highly trained staff to assemble such a high end display system, the level of accuracy in assembly may require a carpenter with a good eye to supervise. No special tools are required for assembly or disassembly. The only tool required is an Allen wrench to set the built in cam locks to connect the display wall panels.

The Sing State Fair Display System can feature standard interlocking modular State Fair wall panels in 3 ft. or 4 ft. widths and in heights of 8 ft., 10 ft., or 12 ft. Custom interlocking modular State Fair wall panels can be manufactured to your specifications, for particular circumstances and accommodations.

Following the conclusion of your State Fair the entire system can easily be disassembled and flat-packed for care free storage until the next time it is needed. Your Sing State Fair Display System is built to the highest specification and is guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail (including full structure warranty) for 10 years, making it the most sustainable State Fair display system, proudly made in the USA.

 

 

If you are not a State Fair production manager but would like to have a Sing fair booth, please visit our: Trade Show Displays to get your best vendor booth, or other state fair booths.

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California’s Best Trade Show Displays

In the recent California State Fair, many artisans, purveyors and vendors from all walks of life were represented and the Fair, which is one of the top 20 state fairs in the United States of America, decided to showcase the works of the participating residents of California on Sing Trade Show Displays.

 

Unlike other, expensively imported wall panels, Sing Core trade show display panels, offer high end characteristics which are not available in the import wall panels. A closer look at the Sing trade show booths will reveal that while every Sing trade show panel may look just like any other trade show display panel, only Sing trade show displays feature panels with patented Sing Core inside.

One advantage of Sing trade show panels is that they can be custom manufactured in our factory in the Pacific Northwest by craftspeople that are proud to build your custom trade show displays, knowing it makes a difference to you to have faith that your best trade show displays are made in the USA.

Since your Sing trade show booth can be customized, your individual panel size can be any size, up to or exceeding 20 ft. tall x 40 ft. long. The California State Fair took full advantage of the custom size option of the sing trade show display booth components. Rather than go with the standard sized trade show panel, they opted for custom 4×8 panels.

The full sized 4×8 panels were preferred to the smaller sized panels because the carpentry staff preferred the 4×8 size to cover more area quickly. Professional trade show panels are not generally available in such a large size doe to potential to warp, bend, twist of cup following set up, especially in a warm environment, like one would expect in California during the summer.

Other trade show panels fail due to warp, and if they are damaged, cannot be easily repaired, like a Sing Panel. Sing trade show panels are made to take a beating and still be able to be reused and made to look new again, year after year. That’s why they can come with a full 10-year guarantee against warping and full structure warranty.

Your investment with Sing Core is a safe one, backed by our face-to-face customer service.

Only one trade show panel could accomplish such feats, due to the nature of the embedded Sing Core technology inside.
Here are just some of the attributes you can enjoy from having Sing Core inside:

Lightweight Trade Show Booths

Lighter than any other Eco-friendly, lightweight, high strength panel known. Light weight makes them asy to assemble, even for the novice.

High Strength Trade Show Booths

Patented Sing Core is many times stronger than any other lightweight trade show panel, and has been independently tested at 660 PSI; that’s stronger than steel pound-for-pound.

Insulated Trade Show Booths

Fairs and trade show generate a lot of noise, the added benefit of having a solid, insulated sound-dampening structure helps to further offer additional separation between trade show booths.

Sustainable Trade Show Booths

Sing Eco-friendly trade show booths are made to be reused and repaired to original strength and appearance, not replaced, like other import display wall components.

Easy to Assemble Trade Show Booths

No need for a contractor to build your trade show display, if you’re using Sing modular trade show components which assembly easily without any special skills or tools required, except for an Allen wrench to secure the pre-installed cam locks.

10 Year Fail-free Guarantee

Sing trade show displays are the only ones that can be guaranteed not to fail for ten full years, including the panel’s structure.

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Custom Barn Doors

Barn doors are popping up everywhere, especially in high-end homes, and they could be located anywhere throughout the project. You will find barn doors as front doors, back doors, garage doors, and inside the home as kitchen doors, bathroom doors, bedroom doors and closet doors, as well as recreational area and room dividers. Custom barn doors are providing a structure-wide approach to replacing regular hinged doors with contemporary barn doors, and Sing Core provides a unique array of attributes which are not available in any other barn door.

Custom Barn Doors

You already know you want the highest and best possible high end barn door, so you start with a custom design, which could be a solid surface, feature custom lite cutouts, or a combination of surface materials, like mirrored barn doors, to make it even more unique.

For custom barn doors with Sing Core inside you know that you’re delivering the best barn doors around imbued with these special characteristics:

Eco-friendly Barn Door
Lightweight Barn Door
High Strength Barn Door
Insulated Barn Door

Custom Warp-free Barn Door

While you might be able to find one or more of the aforementioned attributes in custom barn doors somewhere, but only one custom barn door can deliver all these features, such as Eco-friendly, lightweight, high strength, fully insulated and warp-free in one barn door, and that’s when you know your high end barn door has Sing Core inside. Plus, only Sing Core can help to create custom barn doors with a, 50 year no fail guarantee.

Custom Sliding Barn Doors

Contemporary architecture design is featuring sliding barn doors in new modern designs which is redefining how custom barn doors are perceived, for barn doors aren’t just for barns anymore; you could find them anywhere to spice up any living area. The beauty of sliding barn doors is in their impact; everyone notices them, wherever you’re hanging barn doors, due to their unique appearance, and as of yet, barn doors are not commonplace, people just aren’t used to seeing them, so everyone takes note.

Aluminum custom barn doors before adding vinyl graphics
Aluminum custom barn doors before adding vinyl graphics
 Aluminum custom barn doors after adding vinyl graphics

Custom Exterior Barn Doors

Custom exterior doors represent the most challenging of all custom barn doors, and generally cause uneasiness or problems for the craftsmen, millworks and custom door manufacturers who build them as well as the architects who design them. Why? Because one side of the custom exterior barn door faces the elements (which could include extreme weather condition in heat or cold) and the other side faces the moderately climate controlled in interior. This is just asking for trouble, but Sing Core’s patented premium door core w/patent pending straighteners work around the clock to keep your insulated custom exterior barn doors straight and true and guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for 50 years.

Custom Interior Barn Doors

Inside the home, interior designers are featuring interior barn doors as a unique, attention-grabbing access point. Custom barn doors featured in the structure’s interior can be in any size of opening where sliding back and forth makes sense, and can also disappear within a wall cavity, like a sliding pocket door. Depending on the opening, interior sliding barn doors could be very large in size. Alternatively, double barn doors could split the difference, or multiple side by side bypass barn doors could traverse a wide area and could double as large room dividers inside the home or office.

Custom Modern Barn Doors

These modern barn doors are not your grandparent’s barn doors. When your custom barn doors have Sing Core inside, you can have faith that you’ve made an investment you can enjoy for a lifetime, if not for many lifetimes, because unlike other types of disposable custom barn doors, these particular doors have a tiny carbon footprint, are sustainable and able to last for lifetimes with little or no maintenance. Plus the strength and integrity of Sing custom barn doors allows the hosting of any flat building material with long-lasting, nearly impervious results over time.

Custom Mirrored Barn Door

One of the most highly sought out look in modern barn doors is to have a French barn door design (like a French door, featuring a large lite cut out) except instead of using glass, a full length mirror is installed and the resulting mirrored barn door is hung from barn door hardware, just like any other barn door. Mirrored barn doors could be used anywhere but are commonly featured in the bedroom as mirrored closet barn doors. With a few design enhancements you could have an unbreakable mirrored barn door with Sing Core inside. See: Unbreakable mirror video.

Building a Barn Door

Sure, anyone can build a barn door, but only Sing Core can empower any architect to design an everlasting custom barn door using the highest precision custom barn door core (+/- .006 in.) enabling any custom barn door manufacturer or millwork taking on the project of building a barn door, ensuring the most amazing results culminating in a one-of-a-kind piece of art which can be fully guaranteed for 50 years, including structure warranty. Let Sing Core help you to build the best custom barn door of all.

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Custom Sliding Doors

Custom sliding doors is what Sing Core is all about. Yes, we do supply high end Eco-friendly building materials that are lightweight, high-strength and more dimensionally stable than any other material with all these characteristics, but when it comes to helping AWI millworks and custom door manufactures create the perfect custom sliding door, if the customer is satisfied and the custom sliding door is backed by a 50-year no fail warp-free guarantee, you know it has Sing Core inside.

The best designers, architects, millworks and custom door manufacturers seek patented Sing Core out due to its impressive attributes, plus, as many of our clients have reported, “it’s the only way to build large custom sliding doors that will not warp.”

 

And since custom sliding doors is the name of the game, more and more you will be finding Sing Core inside a variety of applications of custom made sliding doors, such as,

Custom Patio Doors

You will find Sing Core inside the best sliding patio doors. We are proud to be at both ends of the process in patio sliding doors, because we shine in exterior doors which are far more prone to sliding door warp. The top architects preemptively spec Sing Core patio doors at the design phase, while contractors and door companies are likely to search for Sing Core as their patio sliding door replacement following the failure of previously installed sliding patio doors. If you know about patio doors that have Sing Core inside, then you know why.

 

 

Custom Exterior Sliding Doors

Just like custom patio doors, the reason for having Sing Core inside your custom exterior sliding doors is because using Sing Core is the only way to assure that your custom exterior sliding door is warp-free. If you’re in the business of custom sliding doors, you know that exterior sliding doors are asking for trouble, even if they are moderately sized, but if they’re big oversized exterior sliding doors, especially when one side faces the elements and the other faces the structure’s interior, you know you’re asking for trouble unless you have Sing Core in your custom sliding doors.

 

Custom Interior Sliding Doors

Manufacturers of custom sliding doors don’t have too much trouble with interior sliding door that are 7 ft. tall or under, as well as under three-and-a-half ft. wide. But when your interior custom sliding doors exceed the normal range of interior doors sizes, stability over time is going to be a challenge, an obvious advantage of having Sing Core inside your interior custom sliding doors. Then, why are more regular sized custom interior sliding doors specified with Sing Core? Because of the added benefits of having sound deadening and climate control, as well as being able to sport a 50 year warp-free guarantee.

 

Custom Wooden Sliding Doors

Then there is wood. Who doesn’t love the wow factor of seeing custom wooden sliding doors? Nothing is as beautiful or impressive as custom wooden sliding doors. While we have a huge amount of respect for Mother Nature’s gift of wood grains, the very grain which draws our attention to its energy like a magnet, if the same material which causes the custom sliding door to be compromised, or fail. Not so, if you have Sing Core inside your custom wooden sliding doors.

Custom Sliding French Doors

There’s nothing we like more than making custom sliding French doors for millworks and custom door manufacturers, partly because we get to play more in the creative design environment. See, when you think about what a French door is, you have a certain image in your mind, but when designs for custom sliding French doors come in, almost every one of them is like an individual work of art. What you might not know is that custom sliding French doors could have custom lite cut outs for placing glass in any number, shape or form. Just be sure to mention your ideas prior to having your custom sliding French doors built.

 

50 Year Guarantee Custom Sliding Doors

If you’re anything like our thousands of satisfied customers, you like having a product you can stand behind, because they’re standing behind you. It’s the high-tech/low tech patented Sing Core that makes all of this possible, exponentially backed by this level of commitment of Sing Core to you and you to your client that make Sing Core the highest and best solution for builders of custom sliding doors and their clients.

You might have a story, like,

“We always all of our work with a 10-year guarantee, but have a disclaimer excluding any custom sliding door over 7 ft. tall. Now that we use Sing Core for everything over 7 ft. we can easily include our 10-year guarantee, because Sing Core has our back for 50 years!”

Now, you no longer have to compromise, you can hold your head high, thanks to having Sing Core on your side.

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Top 7 Pocket Door Problems and Solutions

The pocket door has been one of the more interesting types of doors that is not only functional but clever in its ability be secluded out of sight, like a hidden door or room divider. Pocket doors are doors that slide into the wall. Also referred to as a cavity sliding door, a sliding cavity door is just like what it’s called, as the door is hidden inside a cavity inside the wall when in its opened position.

As the best architects, millworks and door manufacturers realize that while these types of doors are an effective and brilliant combination of brilliance and creativity, the pocket door does present a few problems associated with their use. That’s why you want to use the best pocket door system.

The Top 7 Problems with Pocket Doors Solved

1. Pocket Doors Warp – Problem

Let’s admit it; the number one problem associated with pocket doors is door warping. A warped sliding pocket door is a huge problem because there is usually a nominal amount of space on either side of the door when the door is snuggled inside the sliding door cavity. A little warp will damage the finish of the door, while a more severely warped pocket door will cause the door to get lodged within the wall, making it difficult to pull out without causing other complications or damage.

1. Pocket Doors Warp – Solution

Sing Core provides the best pocket door manufactures with the only lightweight warp-free pocket door core which is based on a combination of patented reinforced insulated vertical grain torsion box core and composite anti-warp stiffening inserts (patent pending) to provide the only warp-free solution regardless of building materials used (even solid wood stave).

2. Pocket Door Weight – Problem

As a rule pocket doors are pretty heavy, and they’re made to be heavier, because unless you know better, you think that the thicker the door is the less it will tend to move, which is the bane of all wood pocket doors. In the case of pocket doors, adding weight is not the answer, unless you’re in the pocket door maintenance and repair niche.

2. Pocket Door Weight – Solution

The Sing Core lightweight pocket door solution revolves around the lightest weight Eco-friendly pivot door core weighing-in at a fraction of the weight of other wood-based solid wood core. Superior lightweight performance without compromising strength, precision or performance.

3. Pocket Door Repair – Problem

When you have problems with your pocket door it’s going to be a costly issue when dealing with pocket door repair. Why? Unlike other fixed doors which are exposed your pocket sliding door is generally not seen in its opened position, making access to the door unlikely without having to remove the wall supplying the door’s cavity.
If you have to pay for pocket door repair, keep in mind, it may be costly and it will cost you many times the cost of your door over time, especially if it is a wooden door because it will be even more susceptible to warp. While repairing a door can be costly, it might save you money by considering pocket door replacement every so often.

3. Pocket Door Repair – Solution

Sing Core is unprecedented in its reparability. For instance, you could skewer your pocket completely through with fork lift forks and repair it on site by cutting out the damaged area with a chainsaw, glue in a new piece of Sing Core, putty, sand and finish the pocket door and it’s just like new. No compromising the strength or integrity of the original Sing Core pocket door, without even dismantling the door.

4. Pocket Door Hardware – Problem

Pocket door maintenance will include maintaining the hardware, and if your door is a heavy one. The more you use it, the more maintenance will be necessary over time. Plus heavy pocket doors can also compromise the pocket door frame as well as the structure due to stress and strain of operating your door over time. Heavy pocket doors require expensive heavy duty hardware for heavy doors because the pocket door hardware is based on the pocket door’s weight.

4. Pocket Door Hardware – Solution

Since the Sing Core composite pocket door core solution is so lightweight, you can save so much money on being able to use lightweight pocket door hardware (since pocket door hardware is based on weight), not to mention the savings in transporting, handling, manpower and equipment necessary to install the completed pocket door system.

5. Pocket Door Precision – Problem

The problem with pocket doors is that it is difficult to make them with any degree of precision, due to the limitation of the building materials and manufacturing process. Natural wood moves, so it could be straight and true upon installation, but not long after. If welding is used in the manufacturing process, this may also cost you your pocket door’s precision. A single pocket door may not require high precision if it is the only door in the cavity, but what if there are other doors sharing the same space, precision is of primary importance.

5. Pocket Door Precision – Solution

No other Eco-friendly, lightweight high-strength pocket door core can compare to Sing Core in terms of high precision. With the highest tolerances (+/- .006 in.) patented Sing Core can be sanded, milled or machined so precisely, that’s why you see Sing Core everywhere from beneath the ocean (U.S. Navy) to outer space (NASA) and everywhere in between when high precision and dimensional stability are the most important factors.

6. Double Pocket Door – Problem

The highest precision is necessary to accommodate more than one pocket door in the wall’s cavity which is an invitation for constant maintenance, as multiple pocket doors (2 or more) are rubbing up against themselves due to lack of precision or warp gone wild.

6. Double Pocket Door – Solution

Sharing the same pocket door cavity with not just double pocket doors, but multiple doors, is no problem for patented Sing Core. No pocket door core material is as lightweight, Eco-friendly or high precision. You can stack many doors side by side inside your wall cavity packed very tightly with very little wiggle room, and you, your architect, millwork or pocket door manufacturer won’t have to worry about your doors staying straight and true.

7. Large Pocket Doors – Problem

The bigger the pocket door, the bigger the problems. Large pocket doors are the most problematic because they are big, they are heavy, and if they’re over 7 ft. tall and/or 3.5 ft. wide they will be heavier, meaning more expensive hardware that could be many times the cost of the door, increased maintenance due to even more stress on the pocket door frame as well as the structure. What about the warping? Large pocket doors are just asking for trouble, because building one out of standard building materials is a little better than building it out of fresh spaghetti.

7. Large Pocket Doors – Solution

The bigger they are the brighter Sing Core shines through. You can build a 34 ft. tall large pocket door that weighs about 10 percent of its solid predecessor and will not warp, bend, twist of otherwise fail. Your large pocket door can be made of any flat building material in any size and can be guaranteed for 10 full years of faithful service. That’s why the biggest door manufacturers in the world use nothing but Sing Core in their large oversized doors.

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Aluminium Sliding Doors

Sing Core is the number one source in America for Eco-friendly lightweight high-strength aluminium sliding doors made in the USA. Architects, millworks, artisans, industrial engineers, and door companies are raving about Sing Core being the only way to build lightweight large aluminium sliding doors that can be guaranteed not to fail for 50 years.

No other aluminium sliding door made anywhere in the world can compare to all the revolutionary characteristics of aluminium sliding doors with patented Sing Core inside, such as,

Lightweight Aluminium Sliding Doors

Aluminium sliding doors with Sing Core inside weight a fraction the weight of other solid core aluminium sliding doors, thanks to the combination of new and old technologies fused into a lightweight solid substrate that is lighter in weight without compromising strength.

High Strength Aluminium Sliding Doors

Sing Core imbues any aluminium sliding door with the strength that is far superior compared to any other lightweight structural building material. So strong, in fact, it was independently rated at 660 PSI; stronger than steel pound for pound. Not to mention,

Insulated Aluminium Sliding Doors

As if all the lightweight and high strength attributes were not enough, Sing Core comes along and ramps up the features to include packing the aluminium sliding door with rigid insulation material which adds both increased climate control and sound deadening qualities which are all the rage, adding even more value to any sliding door with Sing Core inside. But wait, there’s more…

Warp-free Aluminium Sliding Doors

One thing all architects and engineers agree on when it comes to large aluminium sliding doors, is that they tend to fail by moving (bend, twist, cup) due to warp, especially in an exterior sliding door application. Aluminum will bend according to sunlight and/or climate difference on either side of the sliding door, rendering it useless. A warped sliding door is a problem, that can now be fixed and backed by Sing Core’s

50 Year Warp and Structure Guarantee

Sing Core is the only aluminium sliding door that can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail, including full structure warranty, for 50 years, making Eco-friendly Sing aluminium sliding doors the most long-lasting and sustainable sliding doors in the world, proudly invented and manufactured in the USA.

Other Metal Sliding Doors Available

Not only limited to our best selling aluminium sliding doors, you can have metal sliding doors made of any available flat metal material such as

Steel Sliding Doors
Stainless Steel Sliding Doors
Galvanized Steel Sliding Doors
Cold Rolled Steel Sliding Doors
Hot Rolled Steel Sliding Doors

Keeping in mind that any steel sliding door with Sing Core inside will be a lightweight steel door, which are also available in any other materials, including, say, a copper sliding door, or any other lightweight metal sliding door.

See Sing Core for all your sliding metal doors, if you’re interested in the next generation of lightweight metal sliding door.