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February 3, 2016 Ian Sage No Comments

How to Build a Carriage Door

Since Sing Core is known all over the world as the number one source for Eco-friendly insulated carriage doors that are lightweight, high-strength and can be guaranteed not to warp, bend twist or otherwise fail for fifty years, we get a lot of calls and requests from individuals seeking our specialized non-warping carriage doors. The only problem is, we don’t make carriage doors.

We make the non-warping panels that are used by garage door manufacturers and high end millworks who use Sing Panels as a base material to create their non-warp carriage doors.

Using Professional Sing Panels, you can create carriage doors that are Eco-friendly, Warp-free, Airtight, Weatherproof, Insulated, Energy-efficient, Lightweight and High-strength.

So, we thought we’d take a moment to explain how sing carriage doors are actually made.

First you start off with a custom Sing Panel.

How a Sing Panel is made

Building a non warp Sing panel step 1 create custom dimensions frame: 1. Custom wood frame

: 2. Fill with Sing Core

Now that you have a Sing Panels as your base material (guaranteed non warping carriage doors are made with Professional Sing Panels), your custom garage door manufacturer or high end millwork (even some savvy do-it-yourself carriage door builders DIY-style) completes the door design by continuing the process:

How Non-warp Carriage Doors are Made

How to build non warping carriage doors Step 4 add wood plank detail: 4. Add wood plank detail

: 6. Insert glass

Finally, coordinate with your contractor and/or installers to finish, add hardware and hang your custom non-warping carriage doors.

Non warping wood carriage doors with hardware ready to install

Warp-free wood carriage doors ready to install

This is how the best airtight, energy efficient, Eco-friendly carriage doors in the world are made, and you can make a set for yourself, too.

How to Get Sing Carriage Door Panels

Know what you want

Have at least an idea or drawing of the carriage doors you want

Determine how many and what size of panels you will need for your carriage doors

Know what exterior material you want on your carriage door panels

Decide how you will manufacture your carriage doors

Seek out a professional

Garage Door Manufacturer, Architect, Designer, Design/Build, General Contractor, Mill Work, etc…

Give them your drawing, specify Sing Core inside

They will deal directly with us

Congratulations!

You are the proud owner of your new carriage doors that are

Eco-friendly

Lightweight

High-strength

Insulated

High-performance

Will last longer than anything made with any other material with these benefits

Some examples of insulated Sing Carriage Doors

February 2, 2016 No Comments

How to Build the Most Advanced Door in the World

You could be one of the best door builders by outsourcing your OEM non warping door blanks.

Sing Core has served the building industry by providing the only Eco-friendly, insulated non-warp high-strength, lightweight door. Contractors who build Sing Homes (entire homes built of Sing products) want the added strength, stability, insulation and non-warping doors in all egress points for added safety and security.

First, we have to talk about what makes the best door in the world; it has to be:

1 Non Warp

Even the very challenging doors, large doors, sliding doors, pivot doors, all can be warp-free. In fact SingCore creates unfinished premium doors that can be guaranteed for 50 years. The secret of the best door makers in the world is that they can use the Sing solution as their door’s base material to create a warp-free door, which is the best solution to the problem of warping doors, especially large doors which would otherwise be extremely prone to warp.

2 Lightweight, high strength, insulated and Eco friendly

The strongest lightweight door in the world is made with Sing Core inside. This revolutionary Eco-friendly building material is based on patented technology that is the best of old wood craftsmen’s technology (torsion box) and new composite technology (recycled rigid foam insulation) fused with advanced adhesives and enhanced with patent pending non-warp stiffeners. The result is an extremely lightweight panel that can span distances without deflection that has not been accomplished before in any affordable manner.

3 Easy to Install

Even the largest strongest sound deadening door can be installed in half an hour. This 500 pound Sing pivot door panel measures 10 ft. tall x 12 ft. wide x 3.5 inch thick and took less than half an hour to install in the Seattle Center for Architecture and Design.

Then, we will explain how to build the perfect door, step-by-step, showing the pictures of the entire process (even the most complicated French door, sliding door, pivot door, exterior door, etc…) with all types of skins/surface material.

: Completed Big Pivot Fire Doors

How to build a patented Sing French door

Here’s how it’s done: Purchase a Sing door panel decide on custom lite cutout design and hire a pre-hung door company or millwork to install lite, hardware, sand and finish, then deliver the resulting door to your job site or customer.

Photo Tutorial

How to create lite openings for glass installation

: Install glass in non warp door opening

: Finish and/or paint doors to specs

: Pre-hung large French doors ready to install

How to add hardware for doors / French doors

: Drill and prep non warp door blank

: Router for hardware intallation

: Install door hardware to specs

: Finishing touches on door trim

: Paint ready with lite cut outs

Mini Large Door Gallery

The size of the average non-warp guaranteed Sing door is 9 to 14 ft tall and/or 6 to 8 ft wide.

How to build a hinged door – How to build a non warp hinge door – How to build a sliding door slab with glass – How to build a pivot door panel – How to build a flush door – How to build a carriage door

February 1, 2016 Ian Sage No Comments

Professional Sing Sandwich

Professional Sing Sandwich Panel

The Professional Sing Sandwich panel starts as a 4 ft x 8 ft Sing “sandwiched” panel. Professional Sing Sandwich panels are guaranteed not to warp for 50 years.

If you are an architect, general contractor or home owner and expect a non-warp guarantee from the door manufacturers (especially the very large and expensive doors) you would be very hard-pressed to come to an adequate warranty arrangement with either a door manufacturer or millwork because large doors and doors made of exotic woods are prone to fail; that is, unless the door is made with Professional Sing Sandwich inside. This is how we help to make the best doors in the world that can be guaranteed not to warp for 50 years.

Professional Sing Sandwich panels do not have a solid wood edge. For embedded solid wood edging, see: Professional Sing Panel. Just like it’s name Sandwich means professional patented Sing Core is “sandwiched” between two skins. This creates the best non-warp, lightweight, high strength panel material for superior construction.

A Professional Sing Sandwich panel consists of a substrate of 1 inch patented Sing Core^® torsion box reinforced insulated substrate with special patent pending Sing stiffeners sandwiched between two ¼ inch sheets of plywood, resulting in the most Eco-friendly lightweight and high-strength (660 PSI, stronger than steel pound-for-pound) non-warp material. The Professional Sing Sandwich panel is the basis of many applications spanning a multitude of industries.

January 18, 2016 No Comments

Insulated Plywood

Sing Sandwich and Sing Panel are the world’s most advanced rigid insulation panel system utilizing patented Sing Core as the insulated reinforced torsion box structure which is the green building solution that is lighter in weight and stronger than steel (660 PSI) pound-for-pound.

Thermal Insulation R Value

Customers using Sing insulated plywood get to choose the R value that best suits their application. Standard rigid insulation R value is 3.5 per inch but can be upgraded to R 6.5 per inch. You determine the degree of thermal insulation required by your project, then customize your Sing panel’s thickness to achieve the results you desire based on your specifications.

Insulated Wall Panels

Sing Insulated plywood comes pre-constructed to be used as free standing insulated walls right out of the box. In many cases, builders who embrace Eco-friendly insulated Sing technology take full advantage of the natural reinforced torsion box structure to build structures that are completely frameless.

That’s right; Sing Panels are so strong that you can build enormous structures without the need for complicated framing structures, because the structure is built into the rigid insulated panels themselves making Sing Core’s insulated plywood one of the most advanced insulation materials that is expanding the imaginations of architects and engineers all around the world.

Insulation for Walls

Certainly, there is no need to use additional insulation if you’re building your structure with Sing insulated plywood exclusively; but if you are shearing up the thermal insulation of a pre-existing structure, then Sing’s rigid insulation solution is right on track for a fast, long lasting solution for quickly and easily adding both strength and insulation in one easy step.

That’s why Sing insulated plywood is a highly sought after material for insulating and reinforcing basements and attics giving the designer or do-it-yourselfer 100 percent control over the wall insulation value and installing insulated interior wall panels has never been easier.

Insulation Boards

Because Sing insulated plywood can be custom specified, many builders are choosing to have their rigis Sing insulation materials pre-configured into insulation boards in 16” x 24” or 24” x 96” sizes to accommodate their building styles, increasing production time, dimensional stability and longevity over time.

One nice thing about Sing’s rigid insulation board, is that you can have them any way you want them; any length, any width, any thickness and more amazingly – Any Available Surface Material – for the most versatile insulated wall board available.

Insulated Plywood

Insulation Boards

January 18, 2016 No Comments

Sing Log Homes

It is not uncommon for entire homes to be built out of Sing Core building materials. Home owners, builders and developers can confidently build square log homes that will stand for hundreds of years using Sing Core for everything except for the glass and hardware.

More information on Sing Log Home

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Sing Homes Under Construction

Interior Sing Log Homes – – Exterior Sing Homes

Here are some examples of Sing Log Homes:

Open living room with dining area

Beautiful-sustainable-homes-with-Eco-friendly-Sing-Core-interiors

Insulated Sing composite – open concept home design

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With Sing composites any size, shape, or style of home can be achieved.

Sing Core homes have design flexibility that can bring your dream to life

Sing Core Cedar Dining Room

Sing Core bedroom nested with natural wood fragrance

Home-owners-interiors-by-Eco-friendly-Sing-Core

Sing Core living room with 31′ high ceiling. 3 story space inside house

Natural wood kitchen

Homes-built-with-Sing-Core-composite-building-materials

Sing Core homes built in the foothills of a national park

Sing Core homes create a simple, functional, elegant, and eco-friendly lifestyle

Cozy living room

Pioneer-homes-3000-square-foot-Sing-Core-home

Pioneer 3,000 sq. ft. Sing Home

Sing Core home with a view

House-made-entirely-of-Eco-friendly-insulated-Sing-Core

Mountain top winter hide away

Wanting your home to look its best? Then why not build with the best. Click here to learn more.

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January 12, 2016 No Comments

How to Build a Portable Floor

Here at Sing Core, we are contacted regularly by the most particular clients who seek only the best lightweight, high-strength portable floors made to the exacting architectural specifications. By using Sing Core to build a portable floor, even a low-priced (built with standard sing Sandwich panels) do-it-yourself raised floor you will be miles ahead of other modular floor systems. Just because you’re using our reinforced torsion box composite building material your resulting portable floor will be lighter in weight, stronger, insulated, sound deadening and does not require a complicated infrastructure to accomplish the results that you desire. No other company can make floors like these. No other system allows you to use less joists than our system. This results in a dead load that is so light it’s unmatched by any other system.

Portable Modular Stage Floor Example

View the following video of assembly of this 20 ft. x 12 ft. portable stage that could be used as a dance floor, raised floor, temporary flooring. Imagine being able to load up all the modular components and layout your temporary flooring in convenient sections (as you can see each component can easily be carried by one person) and snap it all together in 12 minutes?

This 12 minute insulated portable stage assembly has been time lapsed to a brief 1 minute video.

The Sing Portable Stage

When you’re making a portable stage out of patented Sing Core, you are using the most advanced floor materials in your portable stages. Think about it; what other Eco-friendly building material can offer such lightweight, high strength and insulation?

Why insulation? Just ask our Sing Core clientele. Architects, designers and sound engineers seek us out for the sound deadening qualities that come with the nature of the patented Sing Core substrate that is basically a wood torsion box structure / rigid foam composite that is a noticeable improvement when measured against other traditionally available stage platforms.

The sound deadening qualities of sing Core can enable a live band with an acoustic drum kit (or DJ) to perform upstairs overhead of a restaurant without impeding the quality of dining going on below. What would you do with your Sing Portable Stage?

Sing-Core-Torsion-Box-Insulated Floor Panels Light Weight High Strength

DIY Dance Floor

If you engage in periodic dance events requiring a dance floor rental, it wouldn’t take long to pay for your own Sing portable dance floor. Sing dance floors can be built to your architectural specifications in easy to use modular sections that are custom designed. Why not build your own portable dance floors?

The avid do-it-yourself could easily create his or her own portable dance floor system using Sing Sandwich panels available via your local Lowe’s Pro Desk. Sing Sandwich panels are available in 4 ft. x 8 ft. standard size, or pre-cut into convenient 2 ft. x 4 ft. modular dance floor sections to create your own portable DIY dance floor.

Outdoor Dance Floor

Sing portable dance floors can be used inside or out. Custom built to your specifications, you can have the best outdoor dance floor that can be assembled and disassembled at will, or left outdoors for extended periods of time without compromising the structure or integrity of the portable floor systems.

Industrial Floor

Sing modular floor systems are being used every day for the most intricate industrial floors in factories, in marine and aerospace temporary floors and as their preferred raised floor system.

January 1, 2016 No Comments

Sing Panel Solid Edge Options

Here at Sing Core, we’re proud to be providing the Custom Sing Panel to the high end architects, millworks, designers, engineers, and contractors around the world. It is our sincere desire to see Sing Panel in use in all American industries and applications.

A Sing Panel has Sing Core inside and solid or closed edges. Enclosing and encapsulating patented Sing Core can take on a variety of forms depending on specifications, function, the useful purpose and high performance standards of your application. Many different options are available and there are no hard-and-fast rules. Or Sing Core true flat experts will be able to assist you in having the performance and connectivity options that you (or your clients) seek, meeting and likely exceeding expectations.

Edge-banding

Edge-banding can take on many different forms. The first method, as when working with a standard Sing Sandwich with plywood surface, would be to use a similar strip of wood to match the surface material cut to the thickness of the panel, then gluing the strop to the exposed area and finish the edges to your specifications. You may use a material that does not match the surface as edge-banding materials are readily available in almost any material including nylon, plastic, aluminum and other composite materials. See also: T Molding

Interior Blocking

You can use any solid material cut to size for interior blocking to seal the edge of your Sing Panel. In most cases, this is a slender piece of wood that can be used not only as an edge but for purposes of connecting hardware (perfect for using cam locks) or joining to other panels. The default material is a 1.5 inch solid wood edge that is evenly flush with the edges of the surface material.

T Slot Panel

Adding T Slot stiles and/or rails to our patent-pending T Slot Panel is one of the most high precision methods used by our most exclusive industrial clients that enhances all the attributes of Sing Panels without compromising the most precise connection methods while taking advantage of all the readily available hardware options offered by the growing T slot industry.

U Channel

The U channel is an effective manner of closing the edge of a Sing Panel and it can be used in three alternative fashions depending on your intended application of your Sing Panel. Having three closed sides and one open side, the U Channel could be made of any material, like wood, plastic, aluminum, etc… and it can be embedded and pre-bonded into place when the panel is manufactured in any one of these ways.

1 End Cap Closure

Embedding the U cannel to the exterior of the exposed edge seals the edge nicely. While this is quite common it is the method that leaves a slight lip that may or may not affect the end product. The other U channel methods leave smooth edges without a ridge.

2 Embedded Open Cavity

Useful in many high tech designs, the embedded U channel with the cavity exposed can be elegant and useful when integrating your Sing Panel into your design. Possibilities about with the exposed cavity for running utilities, adding hardware, using as a track over rollers, and joining panels.

3 Embedded Closed Cavity

For a sleek, smooth effect using an embedded U channel, embedded inside with the closed edge exposed is an excellent way to use your U channel. Certain advantages come with using this method, especially if your U channel is made of aluminum or steel for machining, etc…

Embedded Aluminum Square Tube

Like the embedded closed-cavity U channel, extruded aluminum tubes in a square format (closed on all four sides) can also be embedded in your Sing Panel offering extra reinforcement and connection options.

Edge Fill

Edges can be mildly routed out to your specifications and filled with any specified materials, like epoxy, to achieve the closed end results that you desire.

… And these are only some of the most popular ways of closing the edge of a Sing Panel.

December 28, 2015 Daniel Sing Core No Comments

Sing Sandwich Closing the Edge

Here at Sing Core, we’re proud to be providing the Sing Sandwich to the world thanks to your distributors and other sheet good and lumber suppliers across the USA. It is our sincere desire to see Sing Sandwich in use in all American homes.

Sing Sandwich has Sing Core exposed on the edge. This is normal and rudimentary for millworks and the high end developers that we work with day-in and day out. With exposed edges it is not uncommon for the average do it yourselfer to not have knowledge about how to close the edge of the Sing Sandwich, so for those we offer this simple guide to offer ideas of some of the ways the exposed edge can be closed or hidden when necessary for your project.

Edge-banding

Interior Blocking

You can use any solid material cut to size for interior blocking to seal the edge of your Sing Sandwich. In most cases, this is a slender piece of wood that can be used not only as an edge but for purposes of connecting hardware or other panels. Simply router out the exposed Sing Core to the depth of your wood, clamp and glue as in traditional wood cabinetmaking.

U Channel

The U channel is an effective manner of closing the edge of a Sing Sandwich and it can be used in three alternative fashions depending on your intended application of your Sing Sandwich. Having three closed sides and one open side, the U Channel could be made of any material, like wood, plastic, aluminum, etc… and it can be bonded into place in any one of these ways.

1 End Cap Closure

Gluing the U cannel to the exterior of the exposed edge seals the edge nicely. While this is quite common it is the method that leaves a slight lip that may or may not affect the end product. The other U channel methods leave smooth edges without a ridge.

2 Embedded Open Cavity

Useful in many high tech designs, the embedded U channel with the cavity exposed can be elegant and useful when integrating your Sing Sandwich into your design. Possibilities about with the exposed cavity for running utilities, adding hardware and joining panels.

3 Embedded Closed Cavity

For a sleek, smooth effect using an embedded U channel, bonding inside with the closed edge exposed is an excellent way to use your U channel. Certain advantages come with using this method, especially if your U channel is made of aluminum or steel for machining, etc…

Embedded Aluminum Square Tube

Like the embedded, closed cavity U channel, extruded aluminum tubes in a square format (closed on all four sides) can also be embedded in your Sing Sandwich offering extra reinforcement and connection options.

Edge Fill

Edges can be mildly routed out to your specifications and filled with any specified materials, like epoxy, to achieve the closed end results that you desire.

… And these are only some of the most popular ways of closing the edge of a Sing Sandwich.

December 24, 2015 Ian Sage No Comments

Professional Sing Panels

All Professional Sing Panels are guaranteed not to warp and maintain full structure strength for 50 years. There are no maximum size limitations. For doors that exceed shipping or building entry constraints a Sing Core Patented Modular Large Door System is the solution.

Custom sizes and thicknesses available. We are experts in manufacturing true flat panels and non-warping panels for very large doors, walls, tables and more…

Professional panels are made of a wood torsion box grid with foam inserts, professional stiffeners, a solid wood frame with blocking for hardware, and two matching skins “sandwiching” the core.

Professional Sing Panel

Build your own non-warp door without the extended delivery time

The Professional Sing Panel takes the standard Sing Panel to a new level of high precision and increased performance.

Professional Sing Panels are specially reinforced for increased performance by our team of experienced professionals with an acute sense of composite technologies to create a professional panel that will have the structural integrity to far exceed performance standards deemed “acceptable” by the trade industry.

The Professional Sing Panel is available only to trade professionals, includes embedded stiffeners, and is primarily used in oversize door applications.

Professional Non-Warp Door Blanks

Using patented Professional Sing Door Blanks, any door can be made in any style of any material in any size that can be guaranteed to be true flat (well above AIA standards for flatness) and not to warp for 50 years including structure guarantee when used for intended purposes for which the door was designed.

Custom Professional Sing Panel

Custom Professional Sing Panels are available in any size, any thickness i.e., large oversize panels or planks, posts and beams, with any of the following custom options.

Custom Professional Sing Panel Upgrade Options

Available to trade professionals and industries are a myriad of Sing Panel options that include (but are not limited to):

Non-warping Sing Sliding Door in closed position

SKIN CHOICE (SURFACE MATERIAL)

There are many options for Sing Core panels. (See: Material Options)

- Paint Grade: 1/4 inch or thicker plywood, MDF, Masonite

- MDF

- Masonite

- Marine Grade Plywood

- Metal: 0.20 inch to 0.125 inch aluminum, cold rolled steel, galvanized steel, hot rolled steel

- Hot Rolled Steel

- Cold Rolled Steel

- Galvanized Steel

- Stainless Steel

- Aluminum

- Wood Grain: Thin wood veneer 0.020 inch on top of 0.125 inch MDF over top of a professional Sing panel

- Wood Stave: 0.125 inch applied over the top of a professional Sing panel

- FRP/Fiberglass

- Plastic

- HPL/Formica

- Magnesium Board

- Concrete

Ceramic

Non-warping Sing Sliding Door in opened position

And any other options that may be available per your specifications. Contact us for more information.

WINDOW AND DOOR CUTOFFS

Sing Core provides Sing panels with window and door pre-cut and ready for installation. We will cut 1/8 larger in width and 3/16 inch wider in length to fit your window glass. We build a frame using 1.25 inch solid wood to your specifications.

MOLDING/TRIM

Sing Core windows and doors are profile ready for CNC routing. You may add molding or trim to create your own window or door design, otherwise we will provide you with thicker skin – such as 1/4 inch or thicker MDF, hardboard, etc. – for you to carve or profile by CNC machine. With Sing Core windows and doors you can create a true raised-panel door or any design you desire.

Trim added to create a raised panel door

TRIMMED OR UNTRIMMED (RAW EDGES)

The standard ready-to-ship panel condition is, “untrimmed.” This leaves unfinished exterior edges that may have exposed adhesive and might require being built ½ inch over-sized for trimming at your location. An additional fee will be assessed for trimming and sizing in our factory.

All trimmed edges are 1/2 inch over width and 1/2 inch over length. After trimming, your Sing Panel will be 1/2 inch less (4 x 8 will be 47.5 inch x 95.5 inch). Standard solid wood edging with 1.5 inch will be reduced to 1.25 inch after trimming.

UNTRIMMED PANEL (RAW)

Many of our customers prefer their panels untrimmed because this allows them to trim their panels to exact size on site before installing them in their door openings. That way they can have the peace of mind that their door will fit the opening exactly as intended.

TRIMMED PANEL

Customers who want their panels cut to exact size before they receive them should choose the trimmed selection. This gives them the option of doing less work on site, but it also means they must be much more precise with their measurements before ordering their panels. Trimmed also costs slightly more because it is more labor intensive to trim the panels in house.

BLOCKING FOR HARDWARE

Sing Core panels can be used with any hardware that is rated for the weight of the panel. Solid wood blocking is placed in your specified locations to accommodate your hardware. How to specify your blocking for hardware.

INSULATION VALUE

R-value 3.5 (EPS foam)
R-value 5.7 (urethane foam)

WEIGHT

Sing Core panels weigh only 4 to 5 pounds per cubic foot depending on your skin choice.

COMPRESSION STRENGTH

Our 1-inch professional grade panels have been tested to reach 660 psi.

WARRANTY

Sing Products come with a limited lifetime guarantee. (See Warranty Information)

Professional Sing Panels commonly have a solid wood edge (1.25 inch is standard, any custom size is available).

Professional patented Sing Core creates the best non-warp, lightweight, high strength panel material for superior construction with embedded professional stiffeners.

If you are an architect, general contractor or millwork and expect a non-warp guarantee from the door manufacturers (especially the very large and expensive doors) you would be very hard-pressed to come to an adequate warranty arrangement with either a door manufacturer or millwork because large doors and doors made of exotic woods are prone to fail; that is, unless the door is made with Professional Sing Panel inside. This is how we help to make the best doors in the world that can be guaranteed for structure strength and not to warp for 50 years.

In the event one side is exposed to excessive moisture or temperature then it could cause warping if the panel is very thin. If you have high expectations for non warping (which most of the high end large doors have problems with) Professional Sing Panels are the only insulated panels that warp less than any known core material. All Sing customers are happy with what we deliver when using the Professional Sing Panel to build their non-warping doors; which is changing the previously known idea that all the large doors in North America warp due to the change of seasons. The secret inside the best non-warping doors is the Professional Sing Core which keeps the Professional Sing Panel flat from our factory to its destination and stay flat for 50 years with structural integrity guaranteed.

A Professional Sing Panel consists of a substrate of patented Sing Core torsion box reinforced insulated core with special patent pending Sing stiffeners sandwiched between two ¼ inch sheets of plywood, resulting in the most Eco-friendly lightweight and high-strength (660 PSI, stronger than steel pound-for-pound) non-warp material. The Professional Sing Panel is the basis of many applications spanning a multitude of industries.