Large pivot doors are featured in the most impressive architectural designs of the most prestigious government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, industrial applications, and multi-million-dollar homes throughout the United States and the world.

There is no doubt that encountering pivot doors of this magnitude are garnering the attention of the most famed architects who are easily recognizable by name, and the most powerful creative design people in the world. It’s no wonder that the large pivot door trickle down influence is making its way into the hearts, minds, and designs of modern architectural designs, attracting the thought of upper middle-class Americans.

The only problem with these mammoth pivoting doors is that it is not enough to create a large opening and to fill it with a pivoting slab of any desired material without encountering a plethora of potential problems and shortfalls, leaving inexperienced large pivot door engineers and builders mesmerized by challenge after challenge following the decision to take on of such a project. This makes them much more expensive than standard pivot doors and may present a price threshold which may be cost prohibitive for the budget of the average homeowner.

While the large pivot door looks so good on paper and in artist’s renderings of projects, increasing the desire to have custom entry pivot doors, there’s a lot to consider before getting to the stage of installing your pivot door with any hope of it meeting your expectations fully.

Custom pivot doors are expensive, and that’s why many millworks take on such a job, because it’s a good way to support your bottom line. Though, let’s say, your millwork is providing many or all the standard doors in your project, then you introduce the idea of including custom made pivot doors. Millworks start to worry about any door which exceeds a height of eight-feet-tall and four-feet-wide.

Why so much concern about these doors, especially if they are custom pivot wood doors? The main concern is that any millwork knows that if a pivoting door is any larger than a standard piece of plywood (which even a 4-by-8 pivot door can be a challenge, performance-wise), it will not be long before these modern pivot doors fail due to warp, are so heavy that regular use of it will cause the pivot door hardware (even heavy duty pivot door hardware) to deteriorate prematurely, or cause structural damage to the facility which may not have been designed in such a way to properly host such a beautiful beast.

Exterior pivot doors provide the greatest challenge for custom pivot door designers, engineers and manufacturers because high-end pivot entry doors are used by the most demanding clientele. The aficionados demand flawless pivot door operation as they see this as an extension of themselves. Not only must the pivot door look enormously beautiful, but it must operate in the most pristine fashion without fail.

All Wood Pivot Door

If your pivot door is a large oversized wood pivot door, you know that such a door will be prone to warping, and this will reflect poorly on your clientele.

To determine if a pivot door is right for you, you must first seek out to find the perfect pivot door for your specific application. You will need to know which direction the pivot door is facing, will there be differing climates on either side of the door? Will one side of the door be exposed to the elements? Are sound-deadening or climate control desired features? In which direction will the wood grain be oriented? Will you be using solid wood/wood stave or wood veneer?

Those are just a few of the most important questions you will need to know besides how big the pivot door opening is.

If you live in the United States, you might also consider seeking out a USA pivot door company who has expertise in build high performance large wooden pivoting doors. Next you will also want to inquire regarding their guarantee. Do they guarantee their large pivot doors to not fail for 50 years?

We know of only one way to build a large Eco-friendly pivot door that comes backed with a 50-year warp-free guarantee, and those pivot doors all have one thing in common. While they may all be manufactured by different custom pivot door companies, and the biggest door manufacturers in the world, they all have Sing Core inside.

And that’s not all, a large pivot door may be the most impressive door in the emerging architectural design industry (especially for the upper echelon) the use of alternative surface materials is broadening the scope of door skin types for pivot door designs everywhere.

Metal Pivot Doors

Metal pivot doors are one of those new expanding categories which feature many different aesthetic impressions based on the metal material being featured. For instance, the industrial look of hot rolled steel pivot doors would make anyone take a second glance and take note of the unique industrial look of such a pivot door.

There are many options for incorporating the ultimate steel pivot door in your design, as you could use cold rolled steel, diamond plate steel, galvanized steel, or even a stainless-steel exterior door. You are not limited to steel pivot doors only, as your pivot door could feature any metal, such as aluminum pivot doors, or pivot doors made of brass, bronze, copper, nickel, or any other type of metal pivoting doors you might have in mind.

Architectural Pivot Doors

For the most modern pivot doors, you can design to your heart’s content using multiples of materials, like brass and glass, wood and aluminum, even glass and aluminum with wood clad. You are no longer limited to the standard glass pivot doors enjoyed by your parents or grandparents.

You can opt for pivoting French doors where the glass portion includes one-third or more of the pivot door’s surface area, or you can design wildly unique glass pivoting doors with lite opening shapes and locations which set your door apart from any other pivot door, in a sense creating a one-of-a-kind work of art.

Maybe it’s time you expanded your ideas about pivot doors where the sky is the limit for creating your most unique pivot doors of any size up to 50 ft. x 50 ft., or even larger.

Fully-insulated pivot doors with Sing Core inside do offer sound-dampening and climate control and have been used widely as sound proof doors and in refrigeration.

Custom pivot doors offer many advantages over other types of run of the mill pivot front doors and no other pivot door is more lightweight (a fraction of other solid wood-based pivot door cores), high-strength (660+ PSI, stronger than steel pound-for-pound), or high-precision (Sing Core tolerance = +/- .006 in.).

Eco-friendly Sing Core offers the best use of renewable and recycled materials to achieve the ultimate in sustainability with its power packed 50-year warp-free guarantee.

Affordable Pivot Doors

While the biggest and most expensive pivot doors may be out of reach of middle America at the moment, Sing Core is working hard toward inventor Peter Sing’s vision to have Sing Core inside every home in the USA and the world. Wide-spread interest is growing as the idea of large pivot door trickle down influence permeates all walks of life. Be looking for new developments as they become available in terms of affordable pivot doors with Sing Core inside for you.