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Sliding Door Improvements in Mfg. Technology

Since you were last quoted we have made many improvements in production. These improvements have allowed us to customize our panels to work precisely within your target budget. See our new C Series line of Affordable Barn Door and Sliding Closet Doors.

Recently, we have added our substrate only sliding door panels to our line of products, which could reduce your costs significantly. Customers love this option, because it allows them to apply their own skins, even glass or murals, veneer, wood staves, varnish, or primer and paint for a beautiful finish.

We also provide additional skin options and veneer application, for an additional price. Our process of applying veneer is so advanced, there is no seam. It looks as good as like solid wood!

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Any company can make a door, but very few door manufacturers in the world can produce large sliding doors as strong, lightweight, and straight as ours. All our sliding doors are built to exceed AWI standards. They are made in the USA, sourced with materials from America. No other door manufacturer can offer you a 50 Year Warp-free Guarantee.

Our True Flat Team is standing by to help you with any issue you might have with your doors. Please give us a call to find out how we can help you with your doors from start to finish!

Doors Made to Match Your Budget

Meeting your budget is all about picking the right features and options to bring your project in line with your allocated finances. Give us a call with any budget concerns. We help you come up with a solution to make sure the project comes in within your budget. Give our True Flat Team a try. You have nothing to lose!

Virtually Any Sliding Door Size

We have developed the technology to produce doors upwards of 50 feet wide that exceed AWI standards. They are exceptionally straight, resistant to warping, and completely dimensionally stable. They even come with our signature 50 Year Warp-free Guarantee.

-Stronger
-More dimensionally stable
-More precise
-Available in more sizes
-Have more available features
-100% warp-free
-Resistant to cracking, breaking
-Available with more skin options

We can apply any skin, including hot rolled and cold rolled steel, aluminum, anodized aluminum, mahogany, oak, walnut, white oak, alder, pine, fir, hemlock, copper, bronze, brass, formica, fiberglass. SingCore is here to help you apply exactly the right skin for your job.


The SingCore Process

Ordering from SingCore is simple. Just click the orange “Pricing” button in the upper right hand corner of the page. Fill in your information. Click submit. You’re done. Simple as that! Someone will get back to you with a price quote within 48 hours.

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A Low Cost Alternative Way to Build Very Large Sliding Doors

Although not as tough as our original one piece door designs with a 50 year guarantee, our segmented doors still come with our patented Sing Core structure inside and carry a 5 year warp-free guarantee. And, they can be sold at a much reduced price.

In the past, very large and oversize specified doors were often made as a single piece and shipped whole to the contractor for installation. This is particularly true of very large pivot doors and sliding doors. With modern door construction techniques pioneered by Sing Core large doors can be produced and shipped to the customer in several pieces. These segmented doors pass on savings to the customer while maintaining the highest quality standards for warp free door construction.

Benefits of Modern Segmented Door Construction

Building a door in sections provides numerous benefits without compromise in strength, lightness, and flatness:

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More Efficient to Build

Constructing a door in smaller sections makes the door easier to handle in the factory and easier to produce in general. Having more manageable sections leads to quick and efficient construction, at a cheaper cost. Doors constructed with our modern sectional approach pass on savings to the customer.

Cheaper to Ship

Doors cores produced in sections are built to be convenient and cheap to ship compared to a door built in one piece. This may reduce shipping costs payed by the customer to receive their door purchase.

Easier to Handle

Very large doors constructed in segments conform to common sizes. When you receive the door at your site handling it in segments is usually more natural for workers used to traditional sized doors than and 4×8 materials than handling an extra large door. Leaving joining the door until it reaches the site cuts costs and saves time all the way from our factory to your building site.

Strong and Stable

Sing Core doors shipped in sections and assembled on site maintain the highest standards for strength, lightness, and straightness. At Sing core we guarantee warp-free performance of segmented doors for 5 years.

How to Assemble a Sing Core Segmented Door

Assembly of a modern sliding door constructed using Sing Core technology without any specialized tools and equipment.

1. Lay Each Panel Flat

The first step to join a Sing Core sectional door is to lay the panels on a flat surface. Any flat clean surface will work. For very large doors we like to use two straight beams laid on the ground along  to hold the top and bottom of each door segment.

2. Slide a Spline in to One Side

Each spline and pocket are precisely cut to fit with strength. Our products are built with our 5 year warp-free guarantee in mind. Simply push or lightly hammer the spline in place on one side of the joint. Then your panels are ready to be fit together.

3. Joining the Panels

The final step in joining a modern sliding or pivot door is to press the sides together. This can be accomplished a variety of ways, including gentle application of a sledge hammer, a few ratchet straps, clamps, or any other means you have of providing joining force. Once joined, the door is strong and secure, built to last, and can be finished and installed as any other Sing Core door.

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Internal Sliding Doors

What’s the latest news in sliding doors in the door industry? Internal sliding doors with Sing Core inside are being specified by architects more and more in their sustainable housing and commercial designs. See our new C Series line of Affordable Barn Door and Sliding Closet Doors.

The only 50 year warp-free guarantee and full structure warranty

 

Long the solution for exterior sliding doors due to their Eco-friendly, long lasting solution for warp-free lightweight yet high strength as sliding doors which are exposed to weather conditions, sometimes, even the most severe weather conditions. For years, architects and designers have sought out the characteristics that only Sing Core can provide for high precision and superior performance over a long life of the architectural exterior sliding door.

As architects became more and more accustomed to specifying Sing Core in their door specs, they started to develop a taste for specifying large internal sliding doors also. Large internal sliding doors, especially if they are wooden sliding doors, are going to fail due to warp if they exceed a height of 7 ft. tall sliding doors.

Then as the trend to specify Sing Core in internal sliding doors continued to grow, something began to shift. In high end homes, commercial and industrial applications, architects were also specifying sing Core for standard sized internal sliding doors. As this trend continues, the question is,

Why Spec Sing Internal Sliding Doors?

That’s the question, right? And you might be surprised about the answer, because Sign Core is the obvious solution to exterior or large oversized sliding door which have the tendency to warp, bend, twist, or fail structurally not long after installation. It’s the only way to build a lightweight wood exterior sliding door exposed to the elements which can be guaranteed not to suffer from door warping for 50 years. So, that explains exterior sliding doors and large sliding doors, but regular-sized internal sliding doors?

Well, it turns out that inherit deep within the patented Sing Core composite sliding door core, which is a solid composite material made of vertical grain wood torsion box core which is fully insulated with rigid insulation inside. The result? A lightweight, super strong internal sliding door that is insulated and possesses the additional attributes of being able to control climate (an advantage of using Sign Core inside external sliding doors) and also imbuing the door with sound deadening qualities, a useful and highly sought after feature in upscale projects.

Sliding Door Hardware

Due to the lighter weight of the internal sliding doors, there is a great savings in terms of the sliding door hardware. Both in the cost of the hardware due to handling the lighter weight sliding door, but additionally in the installation of the hardware and maintenance over time, as the lightweight sliding internal doors cause less stress and strain on the hardware and structure with regular use over time.

Pocket Door

One of the best uses of internal sliding doors with Sing Core inside is in the pocket door application. Pocket doors are the most important in terms of remaining straight and true because while a sliding door is far more forgiving, warped sliding pocket doors are become destructive to both the pocket door and the pocket which houses it, any further warping renders the sliding pocket door useless.

Pocket Door Hardware

Just as in the savings in sliding door hardware, pocket door hardware associated with sliding pocket doors featuring Sing Core inside is far less expensive to purchase at the outset and reduces the cost of pocket door installation, as well as requiring less long-term maintenance. Not that cost is always of the most importance in the most high end applications, but it means you can use those funds elsewhere in your project without affecting the overall budget.

Internal Sliding Door of Any Type

Whether architecturally specified at the beginning of the project, or as the most predominant use of internal sliding doors with Sing Core inside in replacement doors, your Sing architectural sliding doors are custom built to architectural specifications. They can be made of any available flat building material in any style of door. That is to say, all custom professional grade Sing sliding internal doors are one-of-a-kind warp-free pieces of art that can be guaranteed to remain warp-free (including full structure warranty) for 50 years.

50 Year Guaranteed Internal Sliding Doors

If you want the best sliding internal doors, then there is only one way to have slider doors of any size, type, style, made of any desired (and available) materials that have Sing Core inside imbuing them with the unique characteristics of being sustainable, Eco-friendly, built to last for centuries and can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for 50 years, guaranteed.

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Sliding Door Design

Your sliding door design is limited only by your imagination. Architects and designers love adding sliding doors to spaces for visual impact and improved functionality. Many options cover the landscape of design possibilities when considering adding sliding doors to a particular design. Some of the most popular sliding door designs include single sliding doors, double sliding doors, stacking sliding doors, pivot sliding doors, sliding barn doors, floating doors and pocket doors, just to name a few, while large sliding doors may comprise complete sliding walls and may be used as sliding room dividers.

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Imagine Your Sliding Door Design

The strength of contemporary architecture design is in the creativity limited only by the imagination of the individual envisioning the concept, look and feel of the project at hand. In a perfect world, your sliding door visualizations and ideas translate well to the real world. In many cases what is seen in the mind’s eye exceeds (sometimes far exceeds) the limitations of available building materials, time or budget constraints (because any sliding door design is possible given enough time and money).

Limitations of Sliding Door Design

When translating visionary sliding doors to the real world, certain limitations are imposed on those with their feet on the ground, whose responsibility it is to bring your sliding door dream to life. These limitations include such things as the Law of Physics and the specific characteristics of the available materials used to materialize your most exquisite sliding door design.

Our team of best sliding door professionals have years of experience trouble-shooting and solving the problems associated specifically with unique sliding door designs. Here are some of the problems associated with sliding doors which we can provide solid solutions for (including our 50 year warp-free guarantee) regardless of the size, style or functionality of your sliding door design.

Sliding Door Sizes

Sliding doors, just like any other type or style of doors, vary in accordance with the materials used and the overall size of the door which determines the weight of the door. Large oversized sliding doors, particularly those over 7 ft. tall are so entirely problematic that no door company will warranty them for more than one year because they cannot maintain optimum precision or door performance over time due to the sliding door’s mass. Yet, even large exterior sliding doors with SingCore inside can be fully guaranteed for 50 years not to fail, regardless of size (up to 50 ft.). So, now you can release the previous limitations concerning size and embrace the idea of very large sliding doors, even floor to ceiling sliding doors and sliding partition walls that will make your design shine for years to come.

Sliding Door Weight

Sliding doors best operate within a delicate balance between size and weight, where weight can cause problems associated with the structure, the sliding door hardware, and the regular trouble-free operation of the sliding door. SingCore’s highly specialized staff can help to engineer doors to be lightweight (1/3rd or more the weight) of other solid core doors.

How do you make such a lightweight door? We use patented insulated Sing reinforced vertical grain torsion box core inside which makes the resulting door so much lighter than other solid core doors. Fore instance one door company replaced a series 25 foot tall sliding doors weighing in at 1,100 lbs. with Sing 25 foot sliding doors weighing in at a mere 198 lbs.

Sliding Door Hardware

Next up is the sliding door hardware, which is also most closely associated with the sliding door weight. In fact, the weight of the sliding door dictates which hardware is to be used. In the case of heavy sliding doors, heavy duty industrial sliding door hardware must be used. In the case of heavy sliding doors, the sliding door hardware can be the most expensive part of the sliding door design, costing many times the price of the sliding door itself. Also, regular use of a heavier sliding door will create maintenance problems with the sliding door hardware over time.

Sliding Door Warp

A warping sliding door is problematic in that it can not only compromise the operation of the sliding door itself but also can create additional strain on hardware and damage other surfaces which parallel the sliding door. In the case of a sliding door concealed within a cavity, like a pocket sliding door, a warped sliding door can become entirely inoperable.

This is particularly common in wood sliding doors due to the nature of the natural wood grain; it moves. Even though wood grain is the most prevalent culprit in on site sliding door failures, sliding doors made of other materials may also warp as designers, engineers and contractors attempt to mitigate the problems associated with the weight of heavy sliding doors by creating a lightweight composite sliding door. Though the issue of weight is addressed, the strength of the door is only as strong as its sliding door core material. Therefore, lightweight composite sliding doors made of other materials besides natural wood are subject to failure due to warping also.

Sliding Door Solution

SingCore is the premiere one-of-a-kind solution to all problems associated with sliding doors, eliminating the challenges of:

WEIGHT – HARDWARE – WARP

While adding attribute inherit with having patented SingCore inside, such as

LIGHTWEIGHT – HIGH STRENGTH – INSULATION – WARP-FREE

And the Sing Core is only solution fully backed by our

50 YEAR WARP-FREE SLIDING DOOR GUARANTEE

Which includes full structure warranty for 50 years. No other siding door can do that, unless it has premium SingCore inside, helping not only to bring your sliding door designs to life but deliver to you and your customers the most insulated airtight lightest and strongest sliding door available today, guaranteed.

 

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Lightweight Insulated Torsion Box Non Warping Door

lightweight high strength engineered plywood exposed torsion box coreThe invention of insulated reinforced torsion box helps woodworkers solve the mystery of warping wood eliminating the problems of warp, bend, twist, cup, cracking and even rot.

Sing pre-built torsion box can be used to manufacture a lightweight true flat workstation. It would take hours – even days – of work to build an 8 inch thick torsion box assembly table that wouldn’t be as strong or straight as Sing torsion box panel.

torsion box animationNot just for torsion box table, the Sing Sandwich panel is a revolution of all paneling and can be reconfigured to any size, shape or dimension, even lightweight structural post and beam.

Buy Sing torsion box panel/honeycomb-panel/Sing-panel to build a butcher block workbench or anything inside your house, outside your house, even your entire house. Floors, walls, portable partition, roof, ceiling, cloud ceiling, etc… See: Applications

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The cost is affordable due to mass production made in the USA, patented and shipped worldwide.

This is good news for the woodworker, contractor, millwork, cabinet and furniture manufacturers. Yes, you can even make lightweight, super-strong furniture components.

Lightweight Sliding Door or Pivot Door

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Sing Core Panel Watertight Church Door

No more heavy sliding doors or pivot doors weighing in at 1,000 lbs. or more. Now you can make a sliding door or pivot door – even floor to ceiling oversized large door – that can be less than 20% the weight of a traditional sliding or pivot door, which means longer maintenance-free performance and less expensive hardware (and less door and hardware repair).

High Precision Accuracy and Solid, like a rock

Your lightweight door can now be solid (not like hollow or honeycomb core doors) insulated, sound deadening, stronger than steel (independently tested at the University of Washington at 660 PSI compared to other high-tech aerospace cores at 10 to 110 PSI). High end architectural millworks enjoy the highest precision building material within .006 inch tolerance.

New generation no fail sliding door 50 yr guarantee50 Year True Flat Guarantee

Say, “Goodbye,” to your warped door. Only patented Sing Core enables door manufacturers to create doors that are true flat (far exceeding AWI standards for flatness) and are guaranteed to stay flat – not warp, bend, twist or cup – for a full fifty years.

Tiny House or Insulated Shed

Quickly and easily erect a tiny house or insulated shed using pre-built torsion box panels (aka Reinforced Structural Insulated Panel RSIP) and never worry about damage of loss due to mold or mildew.

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Sliding Door Gallery

 

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People often come to us and ask, “How can you make the best sliding doors in the world?”

The answer is as simple as, “Anyone can make the best sliding door in the world, if you start with the best door core in the world.”

With Sing Door Core at the heart of your sliding door, you start with the best component to build your sliding doors.

You will find that this new patented technology is more affordable than other traditional building materials that you may be using now. View our online comparison and see our new C Series line of Affordable Barn Door and Sliding Closet Doors.

We have discovered – that if you’re like our most discriminating sliding door clients – what attributes you desire in your sliding door. If so, here’s what you want:

I want a sliding door that is lightweight.

One of the reasons that sliding doors fail is due to the fact that they are too heavy for the hardware to adequately handle the stress of slinging a sliding door back and forth over time. Another issue with weight (especially for large sliding doors) is strain on the structure itself, which could compromise the home or building that hosts your sliding door.

I want a sliding door that is strong.

Many sliding doors that are regularly available via retail outlets may be lightweight, but if they are, usually cannot take much abuse. That’s why house rental agencies are constantly replacing sliding doors in-between renters. It doesn’t take much to damage a standard sliding door, and if they could be repaired it would be cost-prohibitive but you could never repair that sliding door to achieve its original strength.

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I want a sliding door that will last.

Unless you like to replace your sliding doors periodically, why should you? If your sliding door was built like any other sliding door, then it will likely bend, warp or twist over time. Especially if you have twin sliding doors; you want your sliding doors to be straight and true for the long haul.

I want my sliding doors to provide some privacy.

Most people who have had experience with run of the mill sliding door don’t expect much in the way of privacy. When sliding door customers are looking for sound-deadening sliding doors, they find Sing Core for a variety of applications, including sound proof sliding doors.

I want a sliding door that is not going to let the heat out.

Energy savers know that in most cases, a sliding door is the weakest point of energy loss. Sing sliding doors are packed with insulation to keep the environments on either side of the sliding door uncompromised.
Is there such a thing as an Eco-friendly sliding door?

Yes, in this day and age, planet conscious individuals are seeking out ecologically responsible components and Sing sliding doors are the only affordable Eco-friendly, lightweight high-strength insulated doors that are designed to last for years without compromise.

We humbly agree with our high-end clientele that we do help build the best sliding doors in the world. Only sliding doors built with Sing Core are Eco-friendly, lightweight, strong, insulated, and designed to last for lifetimes, yet extremely affordable compared to other high-tech composite materials that just do not deliver the goods when it comes to high end sliding doors.

Sliding Door Gallery

Check out our gallery of sliding doors we have made in the past. Durable and reliable for all your needs.

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Greater Sliding Doors

One of the greatest attributes of your sliding door is the actual sliding performance of the sliding door, especially closet doors. See our new C Series line of Affordable Barn Door and Sliding Closet Doors.

Certainly, upon installation, your wood sliding door or interior pocket doors may perform superbly… but for how long?

It may be important for you to seek out how to make a sliding door that has a high level of performance. And what are the benefits that will increase the performance of your sliding door? Consider:

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1. True flat straight and will stay flat
2. Lightweight 1/3 the weight (or more)
3. High strength stronger than steel lb. for lb.
4. Insulated starting at R3
5. Sound-deadening starting at SCT 30
6. Resistant to warp, twist & rot to meet your specifications
7. Longevity built to last for centuries
8. Guaranteed 10 to 50 year guarantee
9. Eco-friendly sustainable true green technology

Only one door company can deliver a sliding door that delivers high marks in all those important features. See our comparison chart comparing Sing Core doors panels to other door core materials.

Non warping wood bi fold sliding doors insulated room dividers sound deadeningSo if you’re looking for closet ideas, sliding closet doors or double closet doors for your wardrobes that are true flat and stay flat without warping or twisting, then you might consider the Sing Core alternative.

Our industrial sliding doors and marine sliding doors are specially designed to survive the rigorous changes in the elements including exposure to extreme weather conditions.

The secret lies within the core of the sliding door which is basically one of our honeycomb panels (which is also available in aluminum honeycomb panels) that is the foundation for the superior performance of sliding doors that must remain perfectly straight to reduce maintenance over time.

Even though any Sing sliding door can be finished in any flat exterior building material, the aluminum sliding door is extremely popular and can easily have any other surface material, like any wood species, concrete, glass, FRP, HPL, and can be made to be water-resistant or bullet-proof.

The Sing sliding door is not only a light door that reduces strain and wear on the door hardware, but it is also stronger than metal hanging sliding doors and even make magnificent plastic sliding doors.

And when it comes to big sliding doors, our custom oversize sliding doors continue to deliver the best results enjoyed by the top millworks and door companies in the world service the most demanding high-end users.

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Sing Core is the new way to design your door

Solid like a rock, light like feather so you don’t smash your finger.

Wood sliding patio doors, sliding glass doors, and even the most high-fashion vinyl sliding patio door can be expertly engineered with patented Sing Core technology. Strengthening outdoor sliding doors and reducing the weight helps to protect and reduce maintenance to expensive sliding door hardware as well as added stress and strain on the structure. See our new C Series line of Affordable Barn Door and Sliding Closet Doors.

SAFETY AND SECURITY

The Sing Core sliding door offers so much more than luxury, but also increases safety and security of the homeowner’s family, the contractors and workers, as traditional overweight sliding doors have been known to be unsafe and can cause injuries threatening life and limb. Reduce liability of your contractors and commercial clients by reducing on-the-job injuries and help to protect the lives of your clients and their families in residential settings.

Even the best health insurance cannot replace a finger that has been crushed by a heavy sliding door.

GUARANTEED TRUE FLAT

When it comes to sliding doors for walk in closets, most people don’t recognize the importance of remaining true flat inside the pocket door frame. Whether you’re looking for a pocketed door system, wall-mounted system, hanging or floor track system, you can experience the superior performance of your single French door, fiberglass French door or exterior French door because you’ve been introduced to the best sliding French doors for sale on the market today.

Sing Honeycomb Oversized Door Finger PushExterior sliding barn doors can be beautiful following installation, but after time, problems develop due to door failure. They tend to expand and contract due to weather exposure causing them to warp, twist, and crack, compromising the overall performance of your sliding barn door system. Even a 1/4″ deflection can compromise an otherwise aesthetically pleasing completed project. Sing Core’s true flat guarantee is why high-end millworks and designers seek out Sing Core for extreme weather and temperature-controlled environments.

For the do it yourselfer, DIY sliding closet doors can also be a challenge, and Sing Core can help to bridge the gap between the solo sliding door project.

Sliding closet doors are gaining popularity amongst discerning builders and designers, while wooden sliding closet doors are extremely attractive, infusing Sing Core technology can save your interior sliding doors from warping, twisting and/or cracking, so that you can enjoy the elegance and functionality of your sliding door for lifetimes with little or no maintenance.

No company excels in building sliding doors that are much larger than the standard 8 foot sliding patio door. Sing Core specializes in building extreme oversize, large sliding doors that are true flat and guaranteed (see testimonial).

When you’re designing a double sliding door system, the true flat advantages of Sing Core helps to maintain the structural integrity, keeps the sliding of the doors from interfering with the perfect functionality and long-term efficiency.

And increase in interior design trends, like the wall mounted sliding door, Sing Core is the sliding doors company that can get your from here to there whether you are looking for a sliding door for bathroom, sliding barn door kits, sliding door dividers. Sing Core is your preferred resource if you want to avoid cheap sliding patio doors.

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Sliding fire doors and refrigerator/freezer sliding doors are gaining popularity in the Sing Core sliding door lineup.Regardless of the wide variety of types of sliding doors, Sing Core is the greater sliding sliding door that offers the elegance and excellence in barn door sliding door, sliding office doors, and exotic sliding doors, like, Chinese sliding doors, sliding French doors exterior, Shoji screen sliding doors and/or Japanese style sliding doors.

Barn door interior sliding doors come in a variety of materials that are virtually unlimited to match your aesthetic tastes including, aluminum patio sliding doorsSing Core makes the best real sliding door that solves the challenges that face architects and designers around the world for the best results, guaranteed.chalk wall2

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 If your sliding doors are large, you probably have to deal with the issues of added weight that can be problematic. Lightweight Sing Core’s torsion-box substrate is the answer to dealing with the issues of weight of large sliding doors yet adds high structural integrity, and helps to prevent injury to the end-user(s).
When considering your sliding door ideas, think about the size, the weight and the structural integrity of your sliding door system over time.