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June 22, 2023 Ian Sage No Comments

Create The Best Doors with Windows Using Sing Core

Doors with windows in them offer a myriad of benefits, from enhancing natural light to improving aesthetics. However, designing and constructing such doors pose unique challenges. In this article, we will explore these challenges and discuss why Sing Core is the leading choice in the industry for creating custom doors with windows.

Structural Integrity and Stability

One of the primary challenges in manufacturing doors with windows lies in maintaining structural integrity and stability. The addition of a window weakens the door’s core, making it prone to warping, bending, or even breaking. Traditional materials like wood or metal struggle to address this issue effectively, leading to compromised durability.

Sing Core, on the other hand, employs a patented honeycomb core that utilizes torsion box construction. This design consists of high quality hardwood and industrial insulation in a perfectly crafted core that is unlike anything else on the market. The resulting core is lightweight yet incredibly strong, ensuring optimal stability and minimizing the risk of warping or bending. In addition, every Sing Core door comes with a 50 Year Warp-Free and Structural Guarantee, so you never have to worry about your door warping or failing on you.

Insulation and Energy Efficiency

Windows inherently pose challenges to insulation and energy efficiency. They are susceptible to air leakage, resulting in increased energy consumption and decreased comfort levels. In addition, low end doors provide little to no insulation themselves, which compounds the issue. Maintaining a consistent temperature and preventing drafts is crucial in achieving energy-efficient doors with windows.

Sing Core’s composite core technology excels in insulation properties. Its honeycomb structure provides an exceptional thermal barrier, significantly reducing heat transfer and air leakage. This insulation prowess helps maintain desired indoor temperatures, resulting in reduced energy costs and enhanced comfort.

Acoustic Performance

Another challenge faced in creating doors with windows is maintaining acoustic performance. Noise transmission through the window can disrupt privacy, productivity, and overall tranquility. Traditional doors often struggle to provide adequate sound insulation, especially when windows are incorporated.

Sing Core’s unique construction offers remarkable sound deadening properties. The combination of its core and the high-quality materials creates a barrier that effectively absorbs sound vibrations. While a glass window will lessen the sound reduction in general, improving this quality throughout the rest of the door improves the overall effect compared to traditional materials. This superior acoustic performance helps maintain quiet and peaceful environments, making Sing Core doors with windows ideal for offices, bedrooms, or any space that requires noise control.

Design Flexibility

Crafting doors with windows also involves the challenge of achieving design flexibility. Customization options are vital to match diverse architectural styles, interior aesthetics, and functional requirements. Balancing aesthetics, functionality, and structural integrity can be demanding.

Sing Core doors excel in offering design versatility, especially when integrating components into the surface such as a window. It can accommodate various window sizes and shapes, allowing for creative design possibilities. Whether it’s an expansive glass panel or a series of smaller windows, Sing Core’s composite core technology ensures the door’s stability and integrity, regardless of the chosen window configuration.

Conclusion

Crafting doors with windows presents unique challenges that require innovative solutions. Sing Core’s composite core technology provides the ideal answer, offering exceptional structural integrity, insulation, acoustic performance, and design flexibility. With Sing Core, manufacturers and consumers can enjoy the benefits of doors with windows without compromising on quality or durability.

June 12, 2023 Ian Sage No Comments

Overcoming the Challenges of Custom Shaped Doors

Doors are not just functional elements in our homes and buildings; they are also essential design features that add character and aesthetic appeal. As architectural styles evolve and become more intricate, the demand for uniquely shaped doors has increased. However, crafting such doors presents a multitude of challenges for manufacturers. In this article, we will explore the difficulties of making shaped doors and how Sing Core can overcome these challenges.

Complex Shapes and Structural Integrity

One of the primary challenges in creating shaped doors is maintaining structural integrity while accommodating intricate designs. Traditional door materials such as solid wood or fiberglass often struggle to retain their shape and stability when subjected to unusual configurations. As a result, manufacturers face limitations in terms of design possibilities.

Sing Core, on the other hand, does no have these limitations. Composed of a lightweight yet incredibly strong honeycomb core, Sing Core has remarkable stability, even in complex shapes. Its unique construction incorporates a torsion box grid structure that ensures optimal strength, rigidity, and dimensional stability. This characteristic allows for the creation of doors with elaborate curves, arches, and other non-standard shapes.

Weight and Handling Issues

Another significant challenge in crafting shaped doors lies in their weight and the subsequent handling difficulties. Traditional materials used for door construction, such as solid wood or metal, can be heavy and unwieldy. This poses challenges during installation, transportation, and everyday use.

Sing Core panels address this issue by being exceptionally lightweight while maintaining their structural integrity. By utilizing a combination of advanced composite materials and a honeycomb grid core, Sing Core achieves an impressive strength-to-weight ratio. As a result, shaped doors made with Sing Core are significantly lighter than their traditional counterparts, making them easier to handle and reducing strain during installation.

Warping and Moisture Resistance

Traditional doors, especially those made of solid wood, are prone to warping and distortion when exposed to fluctuations in temperature and humidity. This is a persistent challenge for shaped doors, as the irregular surfaces and edges increase the potential for warping.

Sing Core panels, however, are guaranteed to be warp-free. Their high quality design and strong core eliminates the risk of warping and distortion. The honeycomb core of Sing Core also plays a vital role in maintaining dimensional stability over time. This ensures that shaped doors retain their intended form, even in challenging environmental conditions. In addition, all Sing Core panels come with a 50 Year Warp-Free and Structural Guarantee, so you can trust our panels to hold strong for many years to come.

Precision and Customization

Crafting shaped doors requires precise measurements, intricate detailing, and customization to meet specific design requirements. Traditional manufacturing methods often struggle to achieve the necessary precision, leading to inconsistencies and compromises in the final product.

Sing Core panels can be completely customized and are made with the necessary precision to meet the unique specifications of any design. This level of customization allows for the creation of truly one-of-a-kind shaped doors that fulfill the vision of architects, designers, and homeowners.

Conclusion

The challenges of creating shaped doors are significant, but with Sing Core, the industry has found a game-changing solution. By combining remarkable strength, lightweight construction, warp resistance, and precise customization capabilities, Sing Core panels enable the production of stunning shaped doors that were once thought to be impractical or unattainable. As architectural designs continue to push boundaries, Sing Core proves to be an invaluable asset in meeting the demands of modern construction and design, revolutionizing the industry in the process.

May 23, 2023 Ian Sage No Comments

Large Doors by Sing Core

We often mention how amazing Sing Core is for making large, or even massive doors. However, what kind of claim would that be if we couldn’t back it up with proof? In this article we will go over three amazing and massive doors that were made possible by Sing Core, as well as why Sing Core panels are the best, and often the only choice to make large doors possible.

Laserfiche Dual Sliding Doors

The first example of large doors we’ll cover is a set of two sliding doors made for the Laserfiche headquarters in California. The largest of these doors is 102 inches tall by 118 inches wide, or 8.5 feet tall by 9.8 feet wide. The designers and installation crew did an amazing job with these beautiful doors, especially given their unique case of closing off the corner of the room as opposed to a more traditional sliding door setup. You can read more about this project here.

University of Idaho Arena Door

Another recent project that yielded a massive and gorgeous door was this crowd control door for the Idaho Central Arena. This large door measures in at 89.5 inches tall and 120.5 inches wide, or approximately 7.5 feet tall by 10 feet wide. This door acts as both an access point and a traffic control mechanism. When closed, this door simply seals off an area, but by opening it and positioning it as desired, you can divert the massive crowds within the arena onto a new route. Due to its use in a high traffic area, it also needs to be more sturdy and durable than a traditional door, which was made easy with Sing Core. You can read more about this project here.

Giant Pink Door

Though we’ve shown this door off before, it simply can’t be left off of this list. It is a perfect example of a large custom door that simply would not have been possible without Sing Core. This door is 156 inches tall by 36 inches wide, or 13 feet tall by 3 feet wide. In addition to this door’s unique and massive size, it also needed one key feature of Sing Core panels: to be lightweight. This door, unlike most large doors, is mounted on hinges. Typically large doors use rollers or a pivot mechanism, however not this one. As such, it had to be incredibly lightweight for its size, as hinges are far more likely to bend, break, or otherwise develop problems if they are supporting a lot of weight. This door, like all Sing Core doors, is very light compared to traditional options, and yet sacrifices none of the strength.

There are many reasons why you may want to use Sing Core for your large doors, but ultimately what makes our product special is its superior strength, high quality, and low weight. In addition, our panels will never warp or bend, which large doors are especially prone to. Warping is a quick way to permanently ruin a door, but with Sing Core, you can rest easy knowing that it will never happen. In fact, we offer a 50 Year Warp-Free Guarantee as a testament to that fact.

Use Sing Core for your large custom doors, and witness the difference and ease as a result!

March 17, 2015 No Comments

High Precision Doors

Sing High Precision Doors are a marked improvement in door development, design and implementation thanks to a newly invented Eco-friendly core material that is lightweight, insulated and stronger than steel pound for pound.

This new technology is revolutionizing the door industry especially in regards to large oversize doors. Architects, designers, mill works and door manufacturers all experience problems with doors that are larger than normal size.

Large doors present a variety of challenges in areas, like:

choice of available materials
lightweight doors are weak and tend to fail
heavy doors strain hardware and structure
increased regular maintenance
failure due to warping

Sing High Precision Doors solve all these issues with an Eco-friendly insulated solution.

How high precision are Sing High Precision Doors?

Sing High Precision doors are created with so much accuracy that the original door slabs are perfectly flat within .0006 inch accuracy.

After applying your desired composite materials and/or skin, your high precision door can be laser CNC machined for a perfectly flat surface, limited only by the accuracy of your CNC machine shop capabilities.

The Large Challenge

Certainly, you could use laser CNC cutting and engraving to machine nearly any door made of almost any commonly used door material for a flat result. The challenge comes from standing the door upright and expecting a degree of effective usefulness over time.

Why Large Doors Fail

The effects of gravity, varying degrees of moisture and/or atmospheric change, and the natural limitations of the characteristics of the building materials that comprise the door all contribute to its failure. This causes dissatisfaction for the end user, who has invested a great deal of expense in the design, manufacture and installation of this specialty large door.

Door warping is the number one problem for oversized doors that are otherwise enjoyed by the most discriminating end users.

The Disappointment

No one wants to spend that kind of money on a door that is going to warp, bend, twist, delaminate or compromise the structure or hardware with normal recommended use.

Now, here’s the exciting part…

Sing High Precision Doors can be guaranteed not to warp, bend twist or otherwise fail for 50 years!

Imagine having a large door that can be installed that will not pave the way for repeated service calls over the life of the door.

Take a look at some of our clients who trust us with those difficult door challenges because they are the most reputable high performers in the industry who only deliver the highest marks in terms of customer satisfaction, especially now that they can deliver a fail-free large door that will not cause frustration for their client’s or their service departments. See clients List.

Highest Precision in Doors

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No other building material can be guaranteed to maintain a true flat surface and milled with laser precision for long-term maintenance-free performance for 50 years. This is why you can find the growing demand for the Sing solution from beneath the sea (US Navy) to outer space (NASA) and everywhere in between.

The high precision Sing solution is not just for doors; turned flat these very same Sing Panels can become floors, tables, counter tops, ceilings and roofs. Turned on their sides, these patented panels become walls, moveable partitions or virtually any other type of application.