The most common problem for garage doors is the continuous exposure to the outdoor elements. Which subjects one side of the door to daily changes in temperature while the other side sees a constant interior temperature. This is where a solid wood garage door would fail and crack due to the wood expanding and contracting inside the door. This is a major flaw which requires frequent maintenance, such as repainting and resealing to prevent water damage.
Now with a Sing Core door, a garage door can have any skin from metal to old growth Douglas-fir.
Aluminum and metal skinned
Aluminum is a great option for sliding barn doors. The aluminum produces a lightweight and strong finished product. To seal metal and aluminum doors from the elements we have discovered the perfect solution, vinyl wrap.
Vinyl Wrap
Vinyl wrap will adhere to any door’s surface. The glue will seal out any moisture. The vinyl is fully customizable to any design of your liking and will provide full UV protection of your door. Learn how to build a true flat long lasting carriage door here.
Wood Skinned
The best choice for a wood garage door is AB plywood or marine plywood. There’s no need to worry about the plywood cracking with the inclusion of proper finishing when using Sing Core thanks to our patented and patent-pending torsion box “honeycomb” design. This is why they are used on our Sing Core homes.
Wood Stave
A superior addition to any door is to add wood stave to the face. Our most common wood stave products are clear cedar and douglas fir. With wood stave applied, the door looks like it’s made of solid wood.
Unlike a thin .020 wood veneer; wood stave can be sanded and repaired if damaged. Making wood stave a more durable solution to high traffic areas or commercial applications.
Does your customer need a rugged wood stave skin or a thin veneer? Ask one of our knowledgeable sales engineers about the pros and cons of different skin options and they would be happy to walk you through your options.
1/8″ wood stave is all that is necessary to make your door look like it is made completely out of solid wood. But the secret inside is that your door is exponentially stronger and more stable than a standard solid wood door. Your Sing Core door is also almost a third of the weight of a comparably sized solid wood door. Being lightweight expands the choices of hardware, reduces labor costs to install, and is safer in inclimate weather. This applies to all doors with Sing Core inside; pivot doors, sliding doors, pocket doors, carriage doors, bi fold doors, and other doors with unique hardware configurations. Learn more about wood stave here.
We have a very large inventory of wood stave in stock. We will sell the wood stave by the square foot and have a wholesale option. Wholesalers are eligible for discounted pricing on wood stave lots. Contact our sales team for details about wood stave lots here.
Below are a few of the other examples of garage/barn doors we make.
In a new and exciting venture for Sing Core, we are moving in the direction of high quality mass produced composite aluminum plywood products! If you thought plain old plywood was good, then just wait until you try our aluminum composite plywood sheets
When you need additional safety and protection from contamination, wrap up your wood!
Available in single sided, and double sided construction. Our aluminum skinned plywood sheets will last longer than you thought was possible. And, are available in a wide variety of finish options.
Applications including sing paneling, low cost exterior structures, maritime, playgrounds, sheds, tiny homes, trailers, boats, and so much more!
Better than LusterBoard
Our aluminum “LusterBoard” alternative is much more flexible and designable. We offer panels in the widest variety of sizes and thicknesses. We also exceed the competition in terms of aluminum skin color options including:
Red Aluminum Plywood Panels
Blue Aluminum Plywood Panels
Green Aluminum Plywood Panels
Black Aluminum Plywood Panels
White Aluminum Plywood Panels
Orange Aluminum Plywood Panels
Natura Aluminum
And More+
Exceeds NuAlum
Our product is made by hand, with love, by skilled professionals. When it comes to overall quality, there is nothing else like Sing Core’s structural aluminum composite sheets on the market.
In the end, there is no comparison. The most essential qualities of the respective products win out. You don’t need me to tell you how this will end. So, which aluminum composite panel will you choose. I know that I always choose the one that makes me Sing!
Don’t Settle with PolyMetal
In terms of strength, weight, and straightness, Sing Core stands out from the competition. We are not here to brag about ourselves, but to kindly remind you not to settle on a single brand of aluminum composite sheet materials. Just because something else worked for you in the past, doesn’t mean that our aluminum plywood panels won’t work for you in the future.
Laminated Plywood
The key to our laminated plywood / aluminum product is the layer of aluminum on the outside. Typical plywood can be rough, unsightly, and susceptible to moisture ingress from exterior environments. This may lead to warpage in signs, lightweight structures, and maritime situations.
That’s where the aluminum comes in! Aluminum is rust free and impervious to the elements. Yet, it remains lightweight, fire resistant, overall very attractive to they eye.
Laminated Aluminum
Our sheets of standard size construction grade plywood are applied, in a proprietary process of “gluing,” in between or on one side of a sheet(s) of aluminum. This is why we call it laminated aluminum. This technology is the key to our success.
In what some might call an “unholy” marriage, the remarkable properties of aluminum are forever wedded to the low-cost availability of plywood sheets. So what are you waiting for?
Aluminum Laminate Sheet
You may want to know, “How much does an aluminum laminate sheet cost?” The answer may surprise you!
For more information on pricing, including custom sizing and finish options, please contact us directly!
Sing Core’s patented green-building material is realized in the Sing Sandwich Panel that increases the strength of the Sing Core by completing the torsion box design. Need more strength? By increasing the thickness of your Sing Sandwich panel by two, the strength is multiplied by four. Four times the strength at very little added weight.
Sing Sandwich Panels are an open-ended Sing Core base sandwiched between two aluminum or wood skins without solid wood or any other material along 4 sides of edges. (See photo to the right.)
Each Sing Sandwich Panel is made of Sing core with wood base skins used as filler. Our Sing sandwich Panel is designed to protect Sing core with wood base skins providing a better bonding surface for adding solid wood block, solid wood edge and final skin resulting in a completed Sing Core Panel.
Standard Sing Sandwich Panel Dimensions:
dimension: 12 inch x 48 inch to 4 ft x 8 st
thickness from 1/2 inch to 6 inch.
Sing Sandwich Panel Skin Option Examples:
plywood
solid wood
MDF
aluminum
metal
plastic
fiber glass
cement board
concrete
ceramic tile
glass
… just to name a few, as the possibilities are limited only to any available flat building material.
Applications of Sing Sandwich Panels:
Use as sandwich panel block to drop in any solid wood frame, inbetween two sheets of plywood or any skin materials and cold press with adhesive (in most cases regular carpenter glue will work if it is a wood based skin) to build Sing Core Panels or any other type of Sing products. The applications are virtually unlimited!
Versatility
Remember, Sing Core technology is completely customizable to your specifications as they are available in any length, any width and any thickness and bonded to any exterior finish.
We are so certain that Sing Core is the solution to your green building challenges that we offer a 100% refund for any prototype order, for those who want to test drive any form of Sing Core products for use in their applications, so you have nothing to lose. Click Here for our convenient online order form.
Chic, Strong, Lightweight, Long-Lasting, and Versatile: The Sing Honeycomb Furniture line is chic, strong, lightweight, long lasting, and versatile. Our furniture is made of our patented Sing Honeycomb panels which utilize torsion box technology to ensure strength. Each Sing furniture piece is strong enough to support up to 600 lbs. Sing furniture is also completely DIY. Our products are easy to put together and take down.
Environmentally Friendly and Made in the USA: Sing furniture panels are environmentally friendly. The only materials used to construct our panels are wood veneer combined with recycled EPS foam and non-toxic glues. All of our products are manufactured right here in the USA.
Ordering Sing Furniture is easy! To order Sing Furniture submit an Order Form either by email, info@singhome.com, or print and fax it to: 360.495.4585. We’ll provide a quote within one business day.
Above: A beautiful captan’s bed made from Sing Core Furniture Panels
Strong drawers complete the funtional beauty of the captain’s bed.
Look! This drawer is easily holding up to 600 pounds!
A modular bookshelf constructed from SingCore Furniture Panels.
Standard sandwich panels utilize an insulating foam core sandwiched in between two thin sheets of hard material. However, this design offers very little strength and durability. Sandwich panels made by Sing Core are stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly than these conventional panels because we replace the standard foam core with our patented vertical grain, natural veneer torsion box grid also known as the Sing Core. For the consumer, this translates into a higher quality product at a fraction of the cost.
Insulated doors made with traditional sandwich panels are highly susceptible to dents and structural damage because of their weak foam core. Doors made with our Sing Core sandwich panel technology can withstand much higher impacts resulting in little or no damage due to our unique core properties. The University of Washington has confirmed that our doors can withstand pressure of up to 660 psi, as compared to the average sandwich panel which can only withstand 60-100 psi.
If you desire products that are lightweight, strong, durable, dimensionally stable, and eco-friendly, then you must try our Sing Core Sandwich Panels. We like to demonstrate our confidence in the integrity of our products by offering our customers a 10 year structural guarantee.
The simplest and least expensive way to join sing panels is to join in any way according to your budget and/or expertise.
Due to Sing Panels being so straight and true it is easier to join panels together because they line up perfectly unlike other building materials.
In many cases, for instance, standard 4×8 panels can be nailed, glued or channel-joined quickly and easily with satisfactory results.
Other options for fastening panels may include cam locks (see examples left and right) that can be pre-installed, making assembly and joining easy and more secure.
The Sing cam-lock panel solution is a high-demand solution for panels that are routinely assembled and disassembled, especially in moveable walls, trade show booths, and various wall cladding applications. See: Cam Lock Panels
Connect multiple panels together in any configuration
Add lightweight high strength Sing modular shelves
4-way Connection
X Connector
Lightweight + Strong
L & T Connectors
X Connector 4-way
T Connectors
Thru-bolt Joining
One of the most inexpensive and secure ways to join sing panels is by utilizing a simple nut and bolt connection method, especially, if the panels will be routinely or repeatedly assembled and disassembled.
Stainless steel nuts and bolts offer the safety and security when joining sing panels.
Biscuit Joining
In many cases, Sing Panels can be pre-configured for biscuit joining at your site of factory.
Especially for large projects, this enables Sing Core panels to be sent individually, reducing shipping and handling costs, for assembly at your facility or job site.
See images below for example of biscuit assembly of Sing Panels
Unless specified Sing Panels do not ship edge-banded as 93% of our wholesale customers do their own edge-banding when finishing their Sing Panel.
Edge banding can take many forms from vinyl and plastic to wood and steel. Sing Panels are not intended for use as an un-banded product and may not qualify for our 50 year warranty if un-banded.
If your intention is to get the best, most long-lasting performance from your Sing Panels, feel free to take advantage of our free consultation to be guaranteed to achieve the results that you desire.
Insulated metal roofing panels
Edge Banding Options Include:
T Molding
Here is an example of a large lightweight high-strength non-warping sliding door.
Note the steel T molding being installed to complete the door’s composition.
This door is guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail due to being properly engineered and manufactured to exceed the specifications of this oversized architectural door.
T Molding
L Molding
Flat Molding
U Channel
Photo courtesy of Vancouver Doors
Advanced Large Panels
Sing Core specializes in extremely large panels (up to 50 feet) that are extremely true flat and use our nearly seamless assembly process.
This is the most high-end and expensive process where we perform the highly specialized meticulous work in our factory yielding the high level of perfection that many of our most discerning clients require. See: our clients.
These must be manufactured in our plant to ensure accuracy with tolerances within thousandths of an inch and are more costly to ship due to the nature of their being larger than multiple panels that can be assembled on-site.
Connectors for Connecting
Cam-Locks
One of our many features is the ability to add fasteners/locks to our panels…one example of this is the “S-Hook Lock” with a turn of the hex wrench you can fasten or unfasten your panels quickly.
The “S-Hook” fastening lock that is attached to the side of these panels to allow for easy assembly of the wall system.
With a quick turn of your wrist on the hex key your panels will be attached to each other.
Barn Door Assembly or ‘H’ Channel
If you are planning to keep your panels as a permanent structure you may choose the H-Channel attachment feature. Apply your adhesive the slide panel into the channel on each side then either veneer over the panel and channel or you may choose to putty, sand and paint your panels to cover over the H-channel.
Tongue and Groove
Tongue and groove is another fastening choice especially if you using our panels for flooring or ceiling. Make a nice almost seamless connection but give wood veneer a hardwood flooring appearance.
Biscuit Joint
This is a modified biscuit joint attachment. Similar to the H-joint the you are using a single long “beam” as the connector and gluing them together. Best use is for oversize tables (such as vacuum tables) and oversize doors as well. Because our panels are made of honeycomb rather than solid wood, they will not warp. Our honeycomb is light and strong.
Ship Lap
The ever popular ship lap as a connector alternative.
With the wide variety of applications for Sing Core panels, posts and beams, and equally diverse selection of fasteners are used in practical installations.Here are some of the most popular fastening systems used today:Norse Inc. LatchesNorse latches are designed for concealed installation in Sing Panels. Multiple configurations of latches and receivers are possible to suit many applications, and offer numerous advantages.Click Here for More Information …Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
More than a century of experience to the design, manufacturing and distribution of functional hardware, storage-related components, and ergonomic products for original equipment manufacturers of the Tite Joint Fastener Draw Bolt.
An International leader of innovative threaded fastening solutions. Developers of the Draw Bolts and Zipbolt™ tight joint fasteners. They are constantly testing and developing fasteners that are easier, faster and less costly to use.
Over the past five years, FastCap has grown exponentially and has expanded its products base from the Fastcap to a vast array of woodworking products and tools, like the FlipBolt Tite-Joint Dog Bone Fastener Tool-less Draw Bolt.
The range of panel fasteners and plastic clips available from ITW Fastex is designed to fill most fastening requirements. The range of applications is wide from machines, appliances, and computers to recreational vehicles and point of purchase displays.
Shur-Lok fasteners and components are designed to satisfy customer requirements in two general application ideas: secondary structures, such as interior stow bins, lavatories and galleys, and primary structures, such as aircraft engines, engine pylons, landing gears, wings, gearboxes, transmissions and helicopter rotors–all critical applications.
Special and bespoke bonding fasteners. In addition to Veck Fasteners standard range of popular bonding fasteners, we provide purpose-designed special and bespoke bonding fasteners for customers who have specific requirements which cannot be fulfilled from our standard range.
CEL FASTENERS are innovative tools to anchor and attach and remove sandwich panels easily and quickly.
The advantages of CEL’s fasteners are:
Possibility to attach and detach the panels quickly to carry out maintenance work or substitution
Invisible bolts
Precise positioning and multiple removals
Quick assembly
Cost reduction
Initially developed in compliance with to the needs of shipyards, this anchoring system is more and more used in different sectors:
Shops’, hotels’ and trade fairs’ assembly
Lifts
Transport: buses, trains, vans, etc.
Carpentry
Furnishing
Implants
Solid wood implants can be placed anywhere inside your custom Sing Panels for attaching hardware or other anchoring, including lock blocks and the like.
Individual connection inserts can be specified at specific locations to meet all your connection method needs. These can include, potted inserts, Rivnuts, Helicoil inserts, blind inserts with tabs and spool inserts, just to name a few.
Liability disclaimer
The above data are to the best of our knowledge correct and are intended to give information about our products and their potential applications. No warranty is given or implied in respect of certain properties of the products or their suitability for a particular application. We reserve the right for technical changes without further notice. We guarantee impeccable product quality under our terms of sale.
Patented Sing Core: We put a torsion box in the SIP panel to make it better. The other names for our panels include sandwich panel, honeycomb panel and lightweight panel.
Sing Punch-Proof Doors
SINGCORE-The torsion box core makes it impossible to punch through and destroy.
As long as you cannot see the paper core hide inside the door, they will not change it to Sing core. Sing core does not cost not much more than core made of paper but is at least 49 times stronger.
Punch through a Sing door and you will break your hand. If you can manage to punch through a Sing core punch-proof door and don’t break your hand then you will get a free sing door from us.
The most common doors used in most homes are paper core doors. With one punch you can destroy one of these flims doors. Once the door is broken you will need to take it to a door shop to get if fixed or replaced and then take it back and install it. The cost is not only a door, it is how to dispose of it, take it in and out of the shop, build or replace the door and install it. Why not just buy a Sing door to begin with. Sing doors are not much more expensive than paper core doors when consider the life span and they are free. What is your time worth?
Stronger than Steel,
Lighter than Wood
Your door doesn’t have to be steel to be strong. Sing Honeycomb Doors are stronger, lighter and more stylish than steel and vinyl doors due to the torsion box core.
Sing Doors are more stable, insulated and lightweight than solid wood doors. The torsion box core holds the Sing Door Panel flat so that it willnot warp and sag like ordinary wood. A 16lb steel hammer will easily dent a steel or vinyl door, but not a Sing Door. Because Sing panels are efficient to produce, they are more affordable than solid wood doors.
Patented Sing Door Methods
Sing Honeycomb doors are versatile, and customizable. Even the technoly used to construct the door can cater to our customers’ individual needs.
To see more torsion box pictures and web sites visit the Google image galery.
Products > SING CORE Dunnage and Storage Solutions
Dunnage
SingCore cutaway.
The advantages of using SingCore blocks as dunnage and Sing panels for veneer and plywood holding trays:
The super-wide and lightweight super-strong and high compression strength SingCore blocks evenly distribute the weight and allow easy access for forklifts. This minimizes the opportunity for damaging high quality, expensive veneer, plywood, and other sheet goods.
Sing panels come 4 ft x 8 ft x 2.75 inches thick and will work with Sing dunnage to enhance product quality and make your factory happier.
You may purchase Sing panels to cut into the desired width of strips to use as Sing dunnage.
To order Sing panel products, fill out the order form, here.
