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Your Client Requested a Custom Door, Now What?

When an architect is tasked with designing a custom door for a project, there are a number of factors that must be considered in order to ensure that the end result is not only visually pleasing, but also functional and durable. One solution that has been gaining popularity among architects is the use of Sing Core in unique and custom door designs.

What is Sing Core?

Sing Core is a composite material that is made using our patented honeycomb core, resulting in a lightweight yet incredibly strong and stable material. It is particularly well-suited for use in door design due to its ability to resist warping, cracking, and other forms of damage that can be caused by environmental hazards and use.

When working with Sing Core, architects have a wide range of design options available to them. The material can be made to fit virtually any size or shape, and can be finished with a variety of materials and finishes to match the surrounding decor. Additionally, Sing Core is an environmentally friendly material, as it is made from sustainably harvested wood and does not contain any harmful chemicals or other elements.

How to Use Sing Core for Custom Doors

There are a number of ways in which an architect can incorporate Sing Core into a custom door design. For cases where a large, shaped, or abnormally scaled door is needed, you can simply provide those specifications to us during the order, and we’ll make the panel entirely custom for you. Or, if you need a high quality core to build your own custom design on top of, Sing Core works great for that as well. You can request a panel without a skin or finishing, allowing you to put your own artistry on it. You can also attach Sing Core panels together to create massive doors, should they be required. Either of these options result in a door that is both strong and visually appealing, with a high degree of customizability in terms of size, shape, and finish. There are also several optional features you can request when ordering a Sing Core panel.

Perks of Sing Core for Custom Doors

Regardless of the specific design approach chosen, the use of Sing Core in custom door design offers a number of benefits to architects and their clients. First and foremost, Sing Core doors are incredibly strong and durable, making them ideal for use in high-traffic areas or in locations where security is a concern. Additionally, the lightweight nature of Sing Core means that these doors can be easily installed and operated, reducing the risk of damage during the installation process or excess wear on the hardware.

Another benefit of using Sing Core in custom door design is its ability to resist warping and other forms of damage that can be caused by changes in temperature and humidity. This makes Sing Core doors ideal for use in areas with high levels of moisture or temperature fluctuations, such as bathrooms, kitchens, or areas exposed to direct sunlight. In fact, Sing Core is one of, if not the only product on the market that offers a 50 Year Guarantee against warping. That warranty also covers structural failure, so you can rest assured that this will last your client a very long time.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the use of Sing Core in custom door design offers architects a number of benefits, including strength, durability, and customizability. Whether used as a core material or as a veneer, Sing Core doors are an excellent choice for any project that requires a high degree of customization and durability. With their unique combination of strength, stability, and beauty, Sing Core doors are sure to be a popular choice among architects and their clients for years to come.

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Modern Designs with Sing Core

Modern design trends are all about clean lines, simplicity, and functionality. As such, many architects and designers are turning to Sing Core for their modern door designs. Sing Core door panels are a revolutionary product that offers unparalleled strength, durability, and insulation properties, in addition to vast customization potential. Here are some reasons why Sing Core panels are the perfect choice for modern door designs.

Lightweight and Strong

Sing Core door panels are incredibly strong and durable, yet surprisingly lightweight. They are made from a patented honeycomb core that is sandwiched between two layers of material, providing exceptional strength while remaining lightweight and easy to install. Our panels are pound-for-pound stronger than steel, and yet can often be lifted by only one or two people depending on the panel’s size.

Customizable Options

Sing Core door panels can be customized to fit nearly any design style. Whether you’re looking for a sleek, modern look or a more traditional design, Sing Core door panels can be customized to fit your needs. They are available in a wide range of materials, finishes, and styles, allowing you to choose the perfect panel for your project.

Energy Efficient

One of the main benefits of Sing Core door panels is their energy efficiency. They are highly insulated, helping to keep your home or building cool in the summer and warm in the winter. This can lead to lower energy bills and a more comfortable living or working environment.

Durable and Long-Lasting

Sing Core door panels are incredibly durable and long-lasting, making them an excellent choice for modern door designs. They can withstand harsh weather conditions, including extreme temperatures, high winds, and heavy rain, without warping or bending. In fact, our panels have the only 50 Year Warp-Free Guarantee in the industry. This means that they can provide long-lasting protection and insulation for your home or building, without the worry of failure down the road.

Easy to Install

Finally, Sing Core door panels are easy to install, making them a convenient and hassle-free solution for modern door designs. They can be built for nearly any size frame and easily installed, and a skilled installation team can have the door up and working in no time. This means that you can start enjoying the benefits of Sing Core doors right away.

In conclusion, Sing Core door panels are the perfect choice for modern door designs. They are lightweight, customizable, energy-efficient, durable, and easy to install, making them an excellent investment for any homeowner or designer. Whether you’re looking to update your interior doors or create a stunning entrance for your home or building, Sing Core door panels can help you achieve your design goals. So why not consider using Sing Core door panels for your next modern door project?

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The Importance of Lightweight Doors

Why Lightweight Doors Matter

When it comes to large, thick, or custom doors, weight matters a lot. A heavy door can be unwieldy, awkward, or hard to use. In addition, the heavier a door gets, the more complications can arise. These complications can range from minor inconveniences to major failures within the door itself, but regardless, they compromise the quality and function of your door. That’s why we suggest using Sing Core for your large or custom doors, as we make the best lightweight and strong door on the market.

Heavy Door Complications

It’s no stretch of logic to assume that the heavier a door gets, the more risk it poses in a variety of ways. Common issues with heavy doors include difficulty installing or using them, extra strain on hardware, and higher risk of injury. A large, hefty door may sound appealing, but when the mounting hardware bends or breaks under the weight, many things can happen. In the best case scenario, you have to take the door down and replace the hardware. In the worst case scenario, someone can get severely injured. In order to avoid this risk, you need to use heavier grade hardware, which can get increasingly expensive and difficult to come by depending on your door.

Light Door Solutions

If a heavy door causes many problems, then a light door should prevent them. Luckily, it does, and Sing Core doors are the best when it comes to keeping things light and strong. A lighter door has far less wear on its hardware, is much easier to install and operate, and can make the entire process of choosing and installing your custom or large door a lot more enjoyable. For one, you won’t need a team of 8 people to move the giant slab of wood. With a lightweight Sing Core door, you can often transport it with just a handful of people. Plus, with Sing Core doors, you don’t sacrifice strength for weight. Our panels are made with our patented and patent-pending honeycomb core, meaning they remain strong, sturdy, and guaranteed to never warp.

Large Doors

The biggest doors are often the heaviest, and that’s something else Sing Core is great for. Aside from just being lightweight, Sing Core panels provide additional securities when it comes to your large or custom door. The biggest concern with large doors is warping, as the larger surface area is prone to it. Sing Core’s honeycomb panels prevent warping, and we’re so confident in that statement that we offer a 50 Year Warp-Free Guarantee on all of our panels. A warped door can fundamentally ruin a door’s function, structural integrity, and more, and very few door makers can claim their product is free of that concern. Our warranty also promises the structural integrity of your door, so you also never have to worry about that.

Consider using Sing Core for your large, custom, or even standard door project. Interior doors, exterior doors, pivot, sliding, and more are all available through Sing Core.

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Innovate Your Build with Sing Core

Innovative Design Possibilities with Sing Core

A door says a lot about your home or office, and designers are creating the biggest, best, and most beautiful door designs for their projects. Many of these grand doors use Sing Core panels due to their strength, lightweight nature, and customizability. Let’s go over some of the best doors made with Sing Core.

Massive Pink Door

This huge door was installed in a luxury home, and stands 13 feet tall and 3 feet wide. This beautiful door features a hardwood frame and was crafted to artisanal quality. This door operates as a hinged door, and can be easily opened and closed despite its size due to the lightweight nature of Sing Core panels. Due to this, the hinges will last far longer than they would with a traditional heavy door. Between the excellent quality, long life span, and the beautiful work done by the architect and design team, this bright door will bring color and life to the residence for an incredibly long time.

Large Gray Door

This massive pivot door is 5 foot 3 inches wide and nearly 10 feet tall. It serves as the exterior door to a home, and offers a huge entryway that is not common with traditional doors. The door swings open as a pivot door, similar to a hinge door, but the hardware usually attaches to the top and bottom of the door as opposed to mounted on the side. Sing Core panels work very well for pivot doors, as their customizable design can be made to account for the different hardware. This door’s massive size would lead to it being incredibly heavy and hard to operate with other building methods, but with Sing Core it remains easy to use and looking great.

Laserfiche Sliding Doors

The Laserfiche California Headquarters worked with Sing Core to make several doors for their offices, this large set of corner sliding doors being the highlight piece. This high end large door slides back along the squared walls to reveal the room within, opening up a huge entryway. It can also be closed to seal the room off in a box manner. Sing Core panels work especially well for sliding doors, as their combination of unique hardware and function, plus the limitations that are put in place by the mechanisms present many challenges when it comes to weight and size. A set of sliding doors of this size would certainly be unwieldy, require even more expensive hardware, and would have many other drawbacks. With Sing Core, these doors remain light and easy to use despite their size, and as such easily roll along their tracks to open and close.

Sing Core is proud to be involved in so many important projects, and we are confident that our panels allow more innovative and fun designs. Whether you’re working on a large door, custom shaped door, or a door with any other number of features, contact Sing Core to learn how we can enhance your project and build the best door together.

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Sing Core Optional Features and Upgrades

Sing Core panels are a versatile and quality solution to the majority of door, wall, and other construction or design projects. While we have our standard honeycomb panels, there are a few additional features that are available which may prove useful in some circumstances. Most customizations or options can be discussed and designed to match your project goals during the quoting process, but here are just a few of the common options or upgrades we offer:

Skin Types

One of the main sources of variety to our panels is our vast selection of skin types. These are essentially the finishing touch on our door and wall panels, in which we cover the core with high quality and visually appealing skins. These can be anything from wood staves to a vinyl wrap and more, all depending on the job at hand. Click here to see our full selection of skins.

Insulation, Sound Reduction, and Thickness

We recently wrote about the sound reduction and deadening qualities of Sing Core panels here, so we’ll only touch on that part briefly. Sing Core uses high end insulation to fill all voids within our panels, meaning there are no thin spots to compromise the insulation’s integrity or function. This means that, unlike most standard doors, a Sing Core door won’t sap the heat from your climate-controlled home or office and cause your heating bill to skyrocket. Another advantage of this insulation method is a sound reducing nature. The better insulated a door or wall panel is, the less sound it lets through it. A thicker panel also shares this benefit. Thus, by using a Sing Core panel to create doors or walls for a sound studio, you can choose the strength of sound reduction you’d like by adjusting the thickness of the panels you order. Thin panels will provide some sound reduction, and thicker panels will result in near complete sound deadening.

Security Features

Sing Core panels are incredibly strong and durable, but sometimes you may want a little bit more peace of mind regarding the safety of what is behind your new door. Sing Core offers two main ways to improve the security of your door, either with a metal skin or with our new Sing Core Security Door. A metal skin offers improved protection to the surface of the door, which can be helpful when it comes to someone attempting to break or cut through it. Our Security Door, however, includes a grid of steel bars running throughout the panel, massively increasing the strength of the door, while also drastically increasing the time it would take someone to cut or break through. In terms of protection, the metal skin protects the door itself, and the Security Door internal support protects your home or office by preventing someone from getting through. Combining these two features creates an even better, incredibly strong door that would bring a would-be intruder to tears.

Customizable Shape

The last, but most common option when it comes to customizing our door and wall panels is the shape and size. We want to make sure you aren’t limited merely by maximum size or standard shape. We can build a panel to nearly any specifications, whether it be large, small, straight, rounded, with a window cutout, and many more customization options. When planning out your door and sending us the details, we encourage you to design the best door you can, and we’ll provide the best panel on the market.

Sing Core panels come in many shapes and sizes, quite literally. There are also additional features to consider when ordering from us, and this article doesn’t even cover all of the customizable options. Feel free to examine our website or reach out with any questions regarding your door or wall panel needs, and we look forward to working with you!

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Protect Your Home From the Winter with Sing Core

Sing Core and Your Warmth

As we hit the half way mark of the 2022/2023 winter season, many are finding that their homes lack proper insulation in many different ways. One of the main reasons your home may not be holding warmth is your exterior doors. Doors are often poorly insulated, if even insulated at all. A poorly insulated door can surge your heating bill up, as it allows warm air to leave the home and cold air to filter in unrestricted. A door made with Sing Core’s patented honeycomb panels is guaranteed to improve your internal climate, as they are well insulated, lightweight, and can be made to fit any door size.

Why Choose Sing Core?

Sing Core doors offer many advantages over the standard options, and are the industry best in making high quality, durable, and lightweight doors. Our products are made with a laminated honeycomb core, allowing you to choose nearly any door design while still maintaining that high end Sing Core result.

In addition, our doors are guaranteed to be warp free. Doors can warp slowly over time, especially in areas with constantly changing weather. Rain, snow, freezing temperatures, and many other factors can lead to your door warping, and even the smallest warp can change the entire feel of your door. Sing Core doors are guaranteed to not warp, meaning you’ll always have a smooth and straight entrance.

We also offer a 50 Year Guarantee on our products, promising to stay sturdy and straight through that entire time. This brings you peace of mind to know that you will always be satisfied with your door, as it will stand the test of time regardless of the conditions.

What Are The Benefits of Sing Core?

In addition to the high end insulation and 50 year guarantee, our doors are also incredibly sturdy and lightweight. A typical door can be one or the other, but at Sing Core, we make door panels that are durable, without weighing down the hinges and being difficult to move. Because of this, we can make doors of nearly any size, further broadening your options with elegant tall doors, large garage doors, and many others. Our panels are also sound deadening, offering additional uses as interior doors for studios, or even exterior doors in loud areas.

What Kind of Doors Can Sing Core Make?

Nearly any door is an option when using Sing Core. Exterior doors, interior doors, large doors, pivot doors, sliding doors, and garage doors, among many others, all become a possibility with our amazing product. Plus, these various applications will all have the same benefits, so you can have an insulated garage door, a lightweight large door, and more.

We invite you to look at our customer gallery to see some of the amazing things we’ve been able to create, and when you’re in need of a high end door, remember Sing Core.

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How Sing Core Enhances Your Renovation

Sing Core and your Renovation 

Planning to remodel your home or office can be a stressful, time consuming, and confusing process. Deciding what needs to be replaced, and what to replace it with, can send you down a rabbit hole that ultimately leads you right back to where you started. When it comes to doors, Sing Core has you covered.

There’s no need to bother with the decision fatigue that comes with so many choices, because Sing Core is the best option when it comes to doors, bar none. With our lightweight and sturdy design, you can be confident that out product will stand the test of time. Not only that, it’s also durable and guaranteed not to warp, which is not something our competitors can claim.

Using our patented honeycomb panel, architects and craftsmen around the country have been creating gorgeous additions to homes. Whether it be a pivot door, sliding door, or any other form of entry, Sing Core is the industry best when it comes to quality and durability. Just look at our long track record of success stories from satisfied customers, and you’ll see we hold up to our promise.

Not only that, but every Sing Core product comes with a 50 Year Guarantee, meaning in the unlikely event that your door does present any issues, we’ll make it right up to 50 years later. With this promise, you never have to worry about replacing your doors again.

 

What are the benefits of a Sing Core door?

What other benefits come with Sing Core products? Well, for one, they’re lightweight. This means that the hardware and framing used to install the door don’t take the regular wear and tear that comes with other products that are significantly heavier. In addition, our doors are impact resistant and warp-free, meaning they won’t be ruined by bumping into them, and they’ll never warp on you. The fully insulated core offers increased control over your internal climate and gives you the assurance that you won’t be surging your heating bill up by installing one of our doors. They’re also sound deadening, allowing for use in many other applications where sound may be of concern. Lastly, our doors are crafted with high precision techniques by master craftsmen, guaranteeing a consistent and reliable product every time.

 

What doors can I use Sing Core for?

Nearly all door types can be crafted using Sing Core technology. Pivot doors, sliding doors, garage doors, hinged doors, and many others. These doors can be used internally, externally, and for nearly any purpose. Check out these pictures of our product in use:

 

Summary

Deciding to renovate your home or office is a big step. Sing Core is here to make that process smooth and easy, allowing you to spend less time worrying about doors and more time designing your dream space. With Sing Core doors, you are guaranteed to have an incredible, durable, and long-lasting feature that will never fail, and you will never regret.

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Hinged Entry Door 3x13x1.75

Here’s another great example of how straight a SingCore door is.

See other great examples of SingCore hinged doors here.

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Sliding door room partition

Sing Core is honored to be a part of creating an intimate space inside restaurant Osteria Mornini in Miami, FL.

 

Nusla Design helped imagine this space and spearheaded the design. Following Nusla’s design, Sing Core fabricated four stunning door panels to be used in the Osteria Morini restaurant.

Watch the video below and hear the difference Sing Core’s true flat doors make.

 

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These Sing Core sliding doors are used as a temporary room partition for private parties or meetings.

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Sing Core doors naturally dampen the noise of the bustling restaurant. These doors were designed without the addition of acoustic skin layers or acoustic seals. Miami crowds can be lively, and this sliding door room divider creates a separate space to break up that sound transference.

The doors stack up flat parallel against one wall when not in use. Then each of three doors slides independently to the far wall to line up in a perpendicular position. And finally, the fourth door is a fixed pivot door that can swing in or out to completely close off the space. When completely closed the sliding doors and pivot door create a completely flat wall that is camouflaged to blend into the background of the restaurant. And with the use of the pivot door can still be used to serve the guests in a private setting while maintaining the look of a flat wall.

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Notice how flat and straight Sing Core’s sliding doors are, even after two years of heavy use in a commercial space. Sing Core doors are created specifically to remain flat for 50 years using our patented and patent pending door technology.

These look like one single panel, but are actually to perfectly straight flush panels next to each other

This sliding door and temporary wall system was made using four Sing Core professional door panels. The panels are each 38.875” wide by 108” tall and only 1.75” thick. Each door was hot pressed with .020 vertical grain oak veneer. A professional millwork then received the true flat door slabs and stained the veneer to match the various other wood details throughout the restaurant and installed the sliding door hardware. Sing Core is able to provide solid wood blocking in our customers’ specified locations to suit their hardware requirements. As in this case where no blocking is needed for door pulls to keep the illusion of a flat wall when in use.

 

Each panel can be slid on the track with only one finger. Sing Core’s lightweight door technology keeps the weight of each panel down to less than 150lbs.

 

 

Sing Core is proud to be a part of the continued evolution of door technology to make our customers’ lives more enjoyable. Whether that be in pivot doors, sliding doors, hinge doors, pocket doors, or any oversize door. We enjoy the challenge. We invite you to GET AN ESTIMATE and see for yourself how Sing Core’s true flat door cores can help you make the doors that your customers are asking for. Here’s to a Happy holiday for you and yours from the entire Sing Core family.

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It was a pleasure to visit this breathtaking restaurant in Miami Beach, FL. And we encourage you to have a meal at this New York Times voted best Italian restaurant in Miami, FL.