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19′ Pivot Entry Door

 

 

Interior view of extremely large pivot door with hardware

 

Case study:

A 55” wide x 19’ tall x 3.25” pivot door. With differing Cedar and oak wood stave skins.

 

Being approached by a client who is in need of a uniquely large pivot door to withstand the difficult climates of Lake Tahoe can seem like a near impossible feat. This pivot door needed to be lightweight for ease of installation and daily use by the client, impact resistant to hold up to everyday use, sound deadening to drown out the hustle and bustle of everything outside

A pivot door built with patented and patent-pending SingCore inside can make anything possible.

Exterior view of oversize pivot door with hardware

Opposing wood species

Dissimilar wood species on the interior and exterior of the door means differing rates of expansion and contraction. SingCore has the strength and stability to remain rigid against the push and pull of the dissimilar skins.

 

Lightweight oversize door

Lightweight

Now let’s take a look at why this door needs to be lightweight.

First off, big pivots doors tend to be very heavy which makes them more difficult to manage, they require custom made specialized hardware and require a lot of maintenance due to the stress that the pivot door adds to the structure.
Secondly a pivot door is only held with two points of contact on the top and bottom of the pivot door; meaning that if the door warps or twists, the door operation will be degraded or completely fail.

A pivot door this size with a solid core will weigh around 800lbs before any skins are added.
Now with SingCore, this door’s weight is a fraction of what other solid pivot doors would have weighed. This weight savings translates into a reduced overall budget by having lower shipping costs, lower hardware cost and lower cost for the labor of the installation.

Adverse climate for keeping oversize pivot doors straight

Ready for any climate
Lake Tahoe is known for its incredible skiing and breathtaking beauty. Not for its temperate climate.

This pivot door will see outside temperatures as low as 4°F while the inside temperature may be a toasty 76°F, which is a 72° difference.
SingCore pivot, sliding, hinge, and pocket door slabs are fully insulated with your choice of recycled EPS foam core (3.5 R value per inch) or urethane foam core (5.7 R value per inch).

Perfectly straight oversize pocket door

Straight
At 19’ tall this pivot door is as big of a challenge as it gets to keep straight.

All door slabs fabricated by SingCore are completely custom. The SingCore team takes into account the finishing, hardware, and climate when building each core. No two doors are alike. And we take great pains to ensure every pivot, sliding, pocket, and hinge door stays within AWI standards.

We love creating one of a kind oversize doors that no one else can.

 

Need help finding hardware for your oversize pivot door?

We recommend https://www.bridgeportworldwide.com/ for all of your large pivot door hardware needs.

 

 

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The Legendary Curved Doors of SingCore

 

The Sing Door Advantage

SingCore’s Legendary Curved Door has been called upon in the most demanding situations to turn even the most stale environment into a place where luxury and creativity flourishes.  As a leader in manufacturing large, over-sized, sliding, pivot, metal, hinge, bi-fold, and man doors, SingCore has been at the forefront of our industry because of our ability to make doors that are stronger, straighter, lower in weight, more dimensionally stable, available in more materials, more warp resistant, and more visually appealing.  Moreover, we offer the best guarantee in the industry.  No one else in the industry can offer you doors that are guaranteed for 50 years against warping, twisting, breaking, cracking, and skewing.  Because we have a proven track record of producing door that stand the test of time, we have decided to divert our attention to a new line of doors that are dramatically increasing in popularity.  That is the SingCore Legendary Curved Door.

 

SingCore Unmatched Precision

These large curved doors have been made to the exact specifications of the client.  No one can make a door radius as precise and versatile as ours.  Most door companies are not even capable of producing a door that has a radius.  With our cutting edge methods, we can build a door with any radius.  Moreover, it will have the SingCore signature light weight core that allows us to build doors that are more structurally strong, more rigid, more dimensionally stable, less prone to skewing, breaking, and cracking under normal use.  As you can see from our photos, they are much more beautiful than doors from any other curved door manufacturer.  Our doors are solid as a rock.  They go through our rigorous strength testing, including the hammer test.

 

Extraordinary Door Options

For better resistance to environmental conditions, we use marine ply skin on these curved doors.

Our panels are incredibly strong, plumb straight and ultra-lightweight. To meet the harsh needs of today’s ever-changing climate, SingCore equips you with a panel’s sub straight made of patented and patent pending core material. We can manufacture doors with countless diverse skin types due to our state-of-the-art methods and unique engineering. Sky’s the limit on what type of door skin you want as we built our doors to order with your specs. We manufacture the doors using any form of hanging arrangement, any skin, and any dimensions. Due to our innovative blocking system, you can install any hardware. Our revolutionary system allows you choice any kind of blocking you may need to complete your door.  Due to every door being made to order, we are extremely flexible, just ask and we will make it happen.

Ahead of the Game

The buzz about our Legendary Curved Door Line has been tremendous.  We would like to thank everyone who has reach out to us about these our curved doors.  We would also like to thank Wirth Woodworking for doing such a fine job finishing and installing these doors with hardware available at ghostop.com.  To get your own curved doors, please click the “Pricing” button and submit for a price quote.  You never know.  You might just become the proud owner of SingCore Legendary Curved Doors even before your friends and neighbors install them in their homes.

 

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Tiny House Mobile Small Home on Wheels

tiny-house-on-wheels-lightweight-high-strength-greenPatented Sing Panels have been used in many industries such as home building, boat building even in the aircraft industry.

Making its way to the forefront recently are advancements being recognized by the tiny house community. These tiny house designs are springing up all over the United States (and the world) in the smallest footprints on existing properties, or being transported and towed, like a portable house, small modular home or tiny house on wheels.

Introducing the Sing Tiny House

Don’t Be Framed

Sing Core products including the Sing Sandwich and Sing Panel have a built-in torsion box structure that delivers superior strength over long spans. With this Eco-friendly building material, the most environmentally conscious affordable home advocate can build a tiny house without the traditional 2×4 or 2×6 frame.

huge-rafters-loft-roof-structure-supported-by-inch-and-one-quarter-frameless-sing-panel-lgihtweightArchitecturally, not having to frame your structure yields more precious useable space inside your small home plans. Many Sing Tiny Houses have been built without a frame using 1 ¼” thick Luan skin Sing Sandwich panels. See the structural strength of these 1.25 inch walls in the photo to the right. That is a wall that is 1.25 inches thick compared to the 2×4 wall that is at least 4.5 inches thick, this is wasting 3.25 inches and not as strong as sing Core’s 1.25 inch wall. (Note that the loft beams and roof structure are supported by frameless  1 ¼” thick Luan skin Sing Sandwich panels only. That’s high-strength!)

Space-age Technology

What makes patented Sing Core products so different from all other building materials is the unique composite nature combining the best technology of an improved wood torsion box design, recycled foam and surface materials that yield the most spectacular results for upscale tiny houses.

Sing Core products out-perform other composite materials (see comparison) used in aerospace and marine applications in terms of lightweight, high strength and Eco-friendly. This new technology can withstand high winds and extreme weather conditions without compromise.

Why Use Sing Core?

#1 – More Useable Space – When building small homes, maximizing each square inch can be huge in performance and enjoyment of your tiny house. (1.25 inch walls vs. 4.5 inch walls).

how-to-make-a-sing-tiny-house-completely-out-of-sing-honeycomb-panels#2 – High Strength – More rigid and strong than other materials. In fact, Sing Core has been tested at Washington State University at 660 PSI, stronger than steel pound-for-pound.

#3 – Lightweight – Sing Tiny Houses are approximately half the weight of other tiny houses built with traditional building materials. For instance, a Sing Tiny House weighs only 2,600 pounds (easy to tow on trailer) compared to equivalent 5,000 pound tiny house.

#4 – Insulation – Our pre-insulated panels take the time and expense out of insulating your tiny house, and can achieve 6.5 R-values per sq. inch.

#5 – Choices – Customizing options for your tiny house are almost unlimited. You can select any surface material for the interior and/or exterior of each panel including wood, plywood, aluminum, metal, cement board, etc…

#6 – Easy to Build – We can build a Sing Tiny House complete with floors, walls and roof in three-and-a-half hours. The average, inexperienced do-it-yourselfer might take two days to build. Finish-work can take a couple of weeks, depending on your home design.

How to Build

If you are not handy, you could find a local wood worker to build your frameless Sing Tiny House, make sure that your contractor is open-minded and willing to take on the challenge of embracing this new building method. If you are willing to learn, most anyone can build a Sing Tiny House.

Connecting Panels

Many methods are available to assemble your panels. Some people chose to use pre-installed cam-locks (especially if the project might need to be disassembled and reassembled), other methods include traditional screws or nails and we like the performance of urethane-glued assembly (which is stronger than other methods).

Here are some photos of a urethane-glued Sing Tiny House work in progress:

 

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Making it Even Easier

Sing Core can help to make the assembly of your tiny house quick and easy by pre-installing window and doors to your specifications in panels for your convenience.

How We Ship

We ship by freight using a shipping broker that finds the best price and route to reach your destination safely and on-time.

Cost to Build a House

Compared to standard plywood, Sing Sandwich and Sing Panels are going to be more expensive, but if you figure in the cost of materials including framing, insulation, plywood, interior and exterior facings plus labor costs in added time and equipment costs, the Sing solution wins out. And that doesn’t even consider all the added benefits of having a Sing Tiny House.

How to Order

Simply count up how many Sing Sandwich or Sing Panels that you need according to your tiny house plans. For instance, an 8×16 tiny house might use 22 4×8 Sing Sandwich panels.

  • 4 pieces 4×8 floor
  • 12 pieces 4×8 wall
  • 6 pieces 4×8 roof

Easy ordering, use our online price quote.

How to BuyMetal Composite Sing Core panels are true straight, light and strong.

To order Tiny House Small Homes 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. If you have questions, please contact us.

Easy Ordering

All we need to know is the length, width, thickness and what you desire on the exterior, and your custom specialty panels are made to order. Getting a quote for your specialty product, is easy, thanks to our simple online order system.

Bulk Discounts

If you’re looking for a bargain price, remember, the more you order, the less expensive your total order will be per piece. Quantity and wholesale inquiries are encouraged. Feel free to contact us for more information. Click here for Closeout specials.

Fast turnaround: In you’re in a rush, only Sing Core can be custom made within 24 hours and is proudly manufactured for you in the USA.

Fast delivery: Any thickness and almost any length, less than 5 ft wide, can be made with in 48 hours if it is rush order.

SINGCORE Tiny House Small Homes are easy to order. You may choose from our stock panels or order custom sized panels. Our price is based on the length, width, thickness, and quantity. Submit a Work Order by fax or email, and we will give you a quote within one business day. If you have a tight budget, give us a call, we might have an alternative solution tailored to your needs.

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About Sing Log Homes

About Sing Log Homes

sing-log-home-inventor-peter-singThe Sing home-building system started in 1992 as the founder /inventor Peter Sing patented his first vertical grain square log. There were already 24 patents under his name at that time. Since then, there have been a dozen more inventions related to home building products and methods and most are now in production as part of the Sing home-building system.

ENERGY EFFICIENT
ENVIROMENTALLY FRINEDLY

All the inventions of Mr. Sing are based on improving our life style with the least burden to our Mother Nature. These inventions pertain to energy efficient, sustainable, environmentally friendly, non-toxic, recyclable, longevity building materials. These are the prime emphasis of the Sing home-building system. Because of this, Sing home has been invited to build several full size homes in different home shows.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADESsing-home-composite-building-materials-inventor-peter-sing

Over the last 15 years Sing Home has proven itself to be among the strongest, most energy efficient and environmentally responsible of home-building systems.

  • In 2002 Sing home was honored to build the featured home in the San Francisco bay area, at the Peninsula Home Show.
  • Sing picture window structure frame has the highest insulation of any picture windows in history – R-28 instead of the conventional window frame of R-2 or less
  • Sing home building materialsfeature dimensionally stable vertical grain timber, which is –less twisting, checking and shrinking. It provides the greatest strength and utilizes the less natural wood fibers.
Sing Square Log Homes
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Tiny House Links

 

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Tiny Industrial Links

Tiny House Map- Connect all things Tiny House on a national and local level.

Tumbleweed Tiny House- Learn from those that have lived the life.

Tiny House Journal- Tumbleweed Tiny Houses built by you.

Tiny House Listings- Buy, Sell, Rent Tiny Homes.

Designboom- Small dwellings of every shape and size.

Tiny House Forum- Forum about Tiny Houses.

Tiny House Blog- Blog for Tiny House people.

Tiny House Design- How to build Tiny Houses.

Siding hub- A one stop site for all of your siding needs.

 

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Panel Carry


What Are Sing Honeycomb Panels?

Sing Honeycomb is a sandwich panel composite material with built in structural grids. Our grids are made of vertical grain renewable veneer wood fiber, and foam. We construct our Singcore in a fashion similar to torsion box technology most commonly found in the airplane industry. This technology is what allows our panels remain strong, lightweight, and flat without denting, cracking, and warping. See a comparison here. Inventor Peter Sing uses this torsion box technology, along with wood fiber and foam to create patented Sing Honeycomb: the incredibly strong, true flat, lightweight, renewable composite material of the future. Check out our products section to see a few different applications.

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The secret of the Sing Honeycomb panel is in the Singcore. Our Singcore utilizes torsion box sandwich core technology to ensure strength, and allow our product to be lightweight.
16' x11' factory door made with 6mm Luan Plywood Skins True Flat
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels utilize torsion box strength technology in order to ensure flatness.
Vertical Grain Veneer is the heart of our core Vertical Grain Wood Fiber
The heart of soul of Sing Honeycomb is in our patented Singcore invention. The core utilizes renewable vertical grain wood fiber and foam, to create our strong, lightweight, composite material.
Sing Core factory doors are very strong Strength
Sing  Honeycomb is stronger than solid wood, plastic, metal, glass, brick, and  concrete in terms of lbs. per lbs comparison.
Sing Core factory doors are very light weight Lightweight
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels are strong, flat, and lightweight. A  4’ x  8’ x 1 ½” panel with 1/8 “ Luan skins, and solid wood edging weighs in at about 55 lbs. A standard sheet of plywood weighs in at about 96 lbs.

Sinc Core panels are resistant to rot Rot Resistant
Even without coating, Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels outlast plywood, solid wood, MDF, and particle board. Plywood and engineered wood rot crack because of the weak glue layers. Sing Honeycomb panels last because underneath the skins lie Singcore, which keeps the panels flat through torsion box technology, and therefore doesn’t allow the panel to crack.

 

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What Are Sing Honeycomb Panels?

Sing Honeycomb is a sandwich panel composite material with built in structural grids. Our grids are made of vertical grain renewable veneer wood fiber, and foam. We construct our Singcore in a fashion similar to torsion box technology most commonly found in the airplane industry. This technology is what allows our panels remain strong, lightweight, and flat without denting, cracking, and warping. See a comparison here. Inventor Peter Sing uses this torsion box technology, along with wood fiber and foam to create patented Sing Honeycomb: the incredibly strong, true flat, lightweight, renewable composite material of the future. Check out our products section to see a few different applications.
Sing Core cut away to see torsion box core Singcore Core Structure
The secret of the Sing Honeycomb panel is in the Singcore. Our Singcore utilizes torsion box sandwich core technology to ensure strength, and allow our product to be lightweight.
16' x11' factory door made with 6mm Luan Plywood Skins True Flat
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels utilize torsion box strength technology in order to ensure flatness.
Vertical Grain Veneer is the heart of our core Vertical Grain Wood Fiber
The heart of soul of Sing Honeycomb is in our patented Singcore invention. The core utilizes renewable vertical grain wood fiber and foam, to create our strong, lightweight, composite material.
Sing Core factory doors are very strong Strength
Sing Honeycomb is stronger than solid wood, plastic, metal, glass, brick, and concrete in terms of lbs. per lbs comparison.
Sing Core factory doors are very light weight Lightweight
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels are strong, flat, and lightweight. A 4’ x 8’ x 1 ½” panel with 1/8 “ Luan skins, and solid wood edging weighs in at about 55 lbs. A standard sheet of plywood weighs in at about 96 lbs.
Sinc Core panels are resistant to rot Rot Resistant
Even without coating, Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels outlast plywood, solid wood, MDF, and particle board. Plywood and engineered wood rot crack because of the weak glue layers. Sing Honeycomb panels last because underneath the skins lie Singcore, which keeps the panels flat through torsion box technology, and therefore doesn’t allow the panel to crack.
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Furninture Index

Products >Furniture

About the Sing Furniture Line

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.

 

See the revolutionary Sing 5 Drawer Dresser

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.

Sing Furniture Strongest Furniture is Sing Honeycomb

 

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How to Buy

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.

3 maple wood stave tables designed for Microsoft.
Maple wood stave tables.

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Sing Sandwich Panel

Sandwich Panel

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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.

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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.

 

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How can Sing Core sandwich panels be used? Doors, shelving, table-tops, flooring, bookcases, furniture, outdoor decking material, truck/trailer beds even water tanks, to name a few. The possibilities are endless.

 

 

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.

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Since our company’s inception, our products have made in the U.S.A..

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Or fill out our Work Order Form to get a free quote.