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The Best Doors in New York

We love it. Ever since the inventor of SingCore relocated his factory 3,000 miles away to Washington state from New York, still we find most of our shipments of doors, shipping outbound all the way back to New York. It’s fascinating that we sell more doors in New York than any other geographic area in the United States.

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We Love NYC

When it comes to the best door NYC architects and door manufacturers can be so particular that they are more than willing to have their western door materials shipped across the country all the way from the East coast to the West Coast, no problem.

The NYC Door Problem

Q: Why, you might ask, do NYC door contractors seek SingCore door materials to create the best doors in New York?

A: All doors in NYC warp (especially if they’re oversized) and new yorkers ain’t takin’ it no more.

They say things like, “Don’t even think about selling me your cheap warping doors.”

If you ask any New York door company if they have any door they can sell you a NYC door that doesn’t warp, the standard reply is, “Yes, but if I tell you, I’d have to build one with door core from SingCore.”

The last thing you want in your exterior door in upstate New York, is for it to warp and twist not long after installation, compromising your separation from the elements. Oh, sure, you can call the door man to come and fix your warped door, but what you really want is a door that doesn’t fail. Hello?

Although warp-free doors are enjoyed by their end-users by reducing or eliminating door maintenance costs, the door contractors in New York are a little less pleased as they are losing a great deal of their door maintenance contracts.

So, if you’re looking for a new exterior door, it might be a good idea to alternative doors that eliminate the need for extraneous maintenance occurring during changes of the seasons in New York, eliminating the need for door repair NYC.

And you might like to know that since SingCore doors are lightweight and stronger than steel pound for pound, we are helping make door installation NYC a breeze. And there’s change in the breeze permeating the greater New York area, spreading through Boston doors and could be raising the bar for every New Jersey door.

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Check out the warp-free wood doors springing up everywhere throughout the greater New York area. Though you might find these revolutionary warp-free wood doors in a high-end New York museum, mansions, high rise condo, penthouse, or luxury spa in Manhattan, more and more you find warp-free sliding doors popping up in residences and townhouses all over New York, available from your favorite New York sliding door company and asking for non-warping SingCore inside.

The hottest new custom doors NYC have SingCore inside as well as even more doors of New York and ultimately the best door in Manhattan that outperforms any traditional door in New York.

Sing custom wood doors New York are available from your favorite New York door store or New York sliding door company.

Shouldn’t your New York door have SingCore inside?

Want to see a door with SingCore inside? Consider stopping by a recent Manhattan installation site.

Also New York room dividers and temporary walls increasingly feature SingCore inside, not unlike the museum walls inside this art gallery in Brooklyn, New York. You can’t even travel via the John F. Kennedy International Airport without finding SingCore inside.

 

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Kitchen Cabinets Non Warping Custom Cabinets

Lowes kitchen cabinets torsion box panel countertops cabinet substrateHere, at Sing Core, we have staff dedicated to solving the problems associated with high end custom cabinets, butcher block island, kitchen island table and wood furniture for the best clients. For the masses, cheap kitchen cabinets work fine due to their standardized sizes not requiring much continuous material. The problems associated with kitchen cabinets do not become apparent until you start to play with the dimensions and increasing the raw material.

The most exquisite cabinet makers know how to make cabinet doors that will not warp, bend, twist or fail – up to a point. Once the door sizing gets to a certain threshold, you will begin to have problems associated with a warped cabinet door.

Lowes knotty alder kitchen cabinetsFor the most part, cabinet shops specializing in custom cabinets do not see these extreme sizes except for in very exclusive contemporary interior designs and the large size is both elegant and impressive. As beautiful as these large luxury kitchen cabinets can be, having tall cabinet door warp is not a good thing for the client and does not reflect well upon the cabinet maker.

The same is true for any unsupported span of raw material in cabinet doors, large kitchen island tables or wood furnishings. At some point, the material itself will lead to failure due to warping wood or other building material. Many materials have been used in an attempt to prevent warping kitchen cabinets, like melamine, laminate cabinets, MDF cabinets, plywood cabinet doors and even resorting to aluminum cabinet doors to address the warped cabinet door issue.

Solid Wood Cabinets

By far the most popular high end clients prefer the look and feel of solid wood cabinets. Of the many wood species that are trending in growing popularity include:

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  2. Maple cabinets
  3. Hickory cabinets
  4. Cherry wood cabinets
  5. Knotty pine cabinets
  6. Pine cabinets
  7. Walnut kitchen cabinets
  8. Bamboo kitchen cabinets
  9. Birch cabinet doors
  10. Teak cabinet doors

In most cases, solid wood cabinets function well over a period of time, if they are of standard size. If your custom cabinets are rather large and include large spans of solid wood, it will bend, warp or twist; such is the nature inherit with the natural grain in the wood fiber.

How to Fix a Warped Cabinet Door

high tech kitchen butcher block lightweight high strength guaranteedMany methods are within the reach of custom cabinet manufacturers to address the warping issues associated with tall wood storage cabinets and they are well-versed in how to replace cabinet doors. Regardless of the method(s) used for the warped cabinet door intervention, the first order of business is to make a house call to remove the cabinet door (or doors) in question and transport it to the cabinet maker’s shop for fixing cabinet doors.

Cabinet making and the art of building kitchen cabinet doors is a highly skilled sector of the woodworking trade. They would not endeavor to take a large wood cabinet job unless they were qualified to address the challenges with large cabinets with doors. They are fully qualified and they have specific department personnel trained in how to fix a warped cabinet door.

You can be assured that the same cabinet manufacturer who built your cabinets knows how to straighten a warped cabinet door. A variety of options are available including fixing the cabinet door, resurfacing the cabinet door or replacing the warped cabinet door.

Non warping Tall Cabinet Solution

lightweight panel honeycomb high strength butcherblock restaurant furniture kitchen islandUsing a material, like Sing Core, in the composition of the cabinetmaking process is an excellent way to deliver a high-end solution that will not fail, with high precision and performance and can be guaranteed true flat and to stay flat for 50 years.

On top of having a non-warping large oversize cabinet solution that can be guaranteed to warp, bend, twist, cop or otherwise fail, you also get the added value of the best kitchen cabinet, kitchen countertop, kitchen island or kitchen furniture that is

  • Lightweight
  • High strength
  • Insulated
  • Warp proof
  • Rot resistant

 

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Cam Lock Structural Insulated Panel Camlock Panels

cam lock fittings insulated cam lock panels cam lock fastenersSing Panels can come with optional cam lock installation for quick and easy panel assembly using cam lock fasteners embedded within for reinforced sip construction is one of the many ways to join Sing Panels.

Each patented reinforced structural insulated panel can have the necessary cam lock fittings pre-installed for rapid set-up and tear-down of your temporary walls.

The cam latch is and effective use of camlocks for use in these Eco-friendly panels that are the lightest weight and highest strength of modular cam lock panel available that can be fully guaranteed to be true flat and stay flat for 50 years without fail.

Cam Lock Panels

Sing Core is proud to partner with Norse to provide rapid Sing Panel connection methods that are quick and easy to assemble and disassemble for fast set up and tear down. Easier than turning a screw. Click here for more information.

What is a Cam Lock?

cam lock for cam lock panel insulated connectorsA cam lock is a device that is embedded at precise locations alongside the edges of our patented reinforced structural insulated panel. The cam lock fasteners come in pairs; a male cam lock latch and a female cam lock receptacle.

Two panels can be placed side by side and with a simple turn of a cam lock key or Allen wrench, the cam lock latch grasps the opposing cam lock pin and pulls the panel in tight for secure cam lock coupling. See: Cam Lock Panels with Cam Locks by Norse.

How to Install a Cam Lock

Most of the high end millworks that we supply our reinforced structural insulated panels to (see clients list) install the each camlock in their woodworking shop.

Sing Core offers pre-installation of cam locks to our clients’ specifications. Standard sized cam lock panels have two cam locks installed; one at the top and one at the bottom of the panel. The two cam lock design is most common for trade show panels.

Museums, on the other hand, may use much larger panels with either three cam locks installed; top and bottom with another cam lock installed in the middle, while others specify that the center cam lock be replaced with a small biscuit-style joint.

Though we do not design cam lock panels, we do build them to your specifications.

Trade Show Cam Lock Panels

cam lock panel assembly of trade show booth with insulated cam lock panelsBy far, the most popular use of our reinforced structural insulated panel is in the trade show industry. The demand for our cam lock Sing Panel is growing because unlike other panels available on the market today, our patented insulated torsion box structure offers the following benefits:

  • Lightweight
  • High strength
  • Sound deadening
  • Any size or configuration
  • Any exterior material
  • Reduced cost for shipping and handling
  • Fast construction / disassembly
  • Can be guaranteed flat for 50 years
  • Eco-friendly

Our cam lock panel has the best high performance cam lock parts to deliver the cam lock power that our clients expect. Regardless of your cam lock expectations or desires, our panels can be completely customized to meet your specifications.

Any type or style of cam lock can be specified for installation into your Sing cam lock panels.

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Building a Chicken Coop Insulated Chicken Coops at Lowe’s Home Improvement

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The chicken coop is a project that can pose many problems over the life of your chicken coop plans. For the avid do-it-yourselfer you can build a highly customized chicken coop quickly and easily with frameless insulated Sing torsion box panels.

Why not have one of the best chicken coops? Of all the chicken coop designs that we have seen, nothing beats the results that have been enjoyed by owners who have rolled up their sleeves while partnering with Lowe’s Home Improvement and Sing Core.

You can’t even compare your own inventive insulated chicken coop to anything else that is available, even ready to build out of the box chicken coop kits.

If you really care about your chickens, you don’t have to scrimp on their accommodations. You can assure their survivability and longevity stays intact by building an insulated chicken house for your chickens.

Of all the chicken coop ideas that we have seen, building your chicken coop with Sing torsion box panels available via Lowe’s just makes sense.

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Insulated torsion box chicken coop panels

DIY Chicken Coop

The beauty of building a DIY chicken coop is that in most cases you are not bridled with the heavy restrictions that you might otherwise succumb to. You can have complete freedom while engaging in your activities of building a chicken coop.

Building an insulated chicken coop can be so fast and easy for you, one might consider using Sing Core in your design an actual chicken coup.

Imagine little chicken houses sprinkled across the landscape so that you are not limited to the a singular mundane backyard chicken coop.

How to make a chicken coop

There are many options to consider when considering your next chicken coop project. In fact, you could easily build a portable chicken coop. If you ever have the need to move your chicken coop how nice would it be to have a mobile chicken coop? Definitely within the realm of possibilities now that you’ve started to use the Sing system.

When you’re looking to build a chicken coop that is insulated things can definitely get confusing. One of the exciting advantages of using sing torsion box panels available via the Lowe’s Pro Desk if that you can build any size chicken coop; even a large chicken coop on a very affordable budget.

How to Build Chicken Coop

It’s easy to get distracted when attempting to build your homemade chicken coop because you your neighbors and friends may not understand how to build chicken coop with the newest technology available.

You can build the best chicken coop

You can keep your chickens warm in the winter and cool in the summer by building your chicken coop with this new insulated torsion box panel technology available by paying a visit to your local Lowe’s Pro Desk and asking for Sing Core because with them you can build your own chicken coop that is:

  • Frameless (no traditional 2×4 stick frame necessary)
  • Insulated (both the frame and insulation is built into the panels themselves)
  • Lightweight (insulated torsion box panels weight a fraction of other plywood)
  • High Strength (stronger than steel – 660 PSI – pound for pound)
  • Weather proof (torsion box panels are used in severe weather and natural disasters)
  • Maintenance-free longevity (resists mold, mildew and rot)

Fancy Chicken Coops

Tiny houses are not just for people; why not put your money where your poultry is?

When you care to give your chickens the very best living conditions, you know they will return the favor. You can customize, design and decorate to your heart’s content when using this new technology to set up any size chicken facility. Sing insulated torsion box panels could be used for small or large chicken coops, as long as you’re building you’re building chicken coops with Sing Core and Lowe’s, you’ll sleep well at night knowing your chickens are enjoying the luxurious life they deserve for serving you.

Your backyard chicken coops can be like a gated community for your favorite fare weather fowl.

Portable chicken coops

Because sing torsion box panels from Lowe’s are so lightweight, you won’t need extra help managing the equivalent heavy plywood when building your DIY chicken coops. You can easily move, manage, and relocate your insulated chicken coop with a couple people without having to dismantle it.

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Kitchen Cabinets Lightweight Torsion Box Stronger than Steel

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Our staff is dedicated in solving the problems associated with high end custom cabinets, butcher block island, kitchen island table and wood furniture for the best clients. If you want to find out more click here.

A Stronger, Lightweight Cabinet-making Material

The most exclusive homeowners in the United States (and the world) have their kitchen cabinets custom manufactured to their specifications. The homeowners along with their architects and interior designers create their own one-of-a-kind kitchen experience by not having to let a mass manufacturing factory dictate what their options might be for their kitchens.

The Sing torsion box panel is the perfect material for building the ultimate high-end kitchen. Some of the features of the contemporary kitchen design includes larger than normal kitchen cabinets, cabinet doors that can be up to ten feet tall and floating counter tops that can span ten to twenty feet with little or no structural support.

That’s where the Sing torsion box panels come in. Cabinet makers and high-end millworks use it to accomplish what may have been nothing short of impossible prior to only a number of years ago.

University of Washington independent testing Sing Core 660 PSI stronger than steelsing-wood-eco-friendly-butcher-block-table-topThese patented panels feature a natural vertical wood-grain torsion box inner structure that is supported wall-to-wall by an insulating, rigid foam resulting in an unprecedented lightweight and high strength material that was independently tested at the University of Washington at 660 PSI (that’s stronger than steel pound for pound).

Building large, oversize kitchen components using traditional wood-based building materials will likely result in the warping, bending, twisting and rapid general deterioration of the structures and kitchen’s cabinet doors over time, especially the large ones.

That’s why the most prestigious clients come to us to supply them with the secret ingredient that makes their customers so happy to have such high precision kitchen cabinets, counter tops and other kitchen components that can be guaranteed to not warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for 50 years.

High end luxury kitchen cabinets custom kitchen designs millworks cabinetryThe Most Elegant Luxury Kitchens

When you walk into a million dollar home (or multi-million dollar home), you might be surprised to find Sing Core deep inside the kitchen components keeping everything perfectly straight and true flat for fifty years.

Some high-end kitchen projects include large kitchen cabinet doors, counter tops, china hutches, liquor cabinets, huge kitchen pantries and kitchen islands with the highest precision and performance standards of any known building material.

Solid Wood Stave Kitchen Cabinets

Your custom Sing torsion box panels can have any exterior surface material, for the craftsman with a high level of woodworking expertise, one can now design and build exotic wood cabinets at a fraction of the cost with higher precision than is possible with solid wood or wood veneers, and high performance that cannot be matched by any other building material. Click to learn the secret.

Lowes cherry kitchen cabinetsSome of our most popular solid wood stave kitchen cabinets are:

Cherry cabinets
Oak kitchen cabinets
Knotty alder cabinets
Maple kitchen cabinets

Metal Kitchen Cabinets

Whether your kitchen is in a mansion, or industrial kitchen setting, metal kitchen cabinets and surface materials may be the optimal solution both for aesthetics and kitchen work surface materials.

Of all the Sing metal kitchen cabinetry that we assist craftsmen produce, stainless steel cabinets appear at the top of the list, though we have also helped to create kitchen cabinetry and kitchen surface areas featuring aluminum, galvanized steel, cold rolled steel, and copper kitchen cabinets as well as stainless steel.

Outdoor Kitchen Designs

A new trend is emerging amongst design aficionados and artistic architects who along with their project managers are reinventing exterior spaces to include outdoor kitchen areas. Of course this introduces a whole new set of challenges to which Sing products are well equipped to tackle.

Exterior kitchen environments are a perfect match for Sing torsion box panels because unlike other materials, the sing solution is a solid material that is insulated, severe weather resistant and can easily configured to be waterproof.

We have helped millworks deliver outdoor kitchen cabinets that are guaranteed not to fail for a full 50 years even though exposed 100% to the elements.

Eco-friendly Kitchen Cabinets

Having access to Sing Core products puts this revolutionary, Eco-friendly new building material within reach of anyone who might consider building a more sustainable kitchen.

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Tiny House Reinforced Structural Insulated Panels Home Improvement

Tiny House made with lightweight high strength reinforced structrual insulated panels RSIPsSing Core is proud to announce that their Sing Sandwich panels are now.

Why Build a Tiny House with Sing?

There are so many reasons but the most popular ones are:

Fastest and easiest tiny house building

Why spend weeks building your tiny house, when you can build your house easily with one or two people in a day (or hours depending on your assembly method)? When you build your tiny house using Sing Sandwich (or Sing Panel) you are using a lightweight, high-strength Sing Reinforced Structural Insulated Panel (SRSIP see specs) that is easy to handle and assemble.

4 Ways to Build a Sing Tiny House:

1. Hybrid Method

Using a combination of traditional 2×4 stick framing and Sing Sandwich panels

2. Caterpillar Method

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Tiny House built in 1 day – last forever!

Pre-assembled sections are joined together on site

3. Frameless Adhesion

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Sing Sandwich panels are glued together to form a solid structure

4. Sing Modular Panels

 

Modular Sing Panels with your choice of biscuit joining or deluxe cam lock panels.

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No Frame Needed

No need to frame your tiny house because Sing products all have a built-in torsion box structure that delivers less weight and more strength than any traditional stick-frame design and will not warp, bend or twist like traditional lumber.Sing Core panels are lightweight!

Lightweight

Sing products are a fraction of the weight of solid wood, plywood or particle board, making it much easier to handle and manage on site. Also, this could be a huge advantage if intend to build a tiny house on a trailer, making it much more cost effective to move without requiring a large heavy duty vehicle to build your own tiny house.

High strength

Galvanized steel modular wall panel 20 ft x 5 ft x 1 inch strength demonstrationDue to the high-strength of Sing products (How strong? Six times [or more] stronger than honeycomb panels used in aerospace), your tiny house will be stronger than a traditional wood-framed structure. That’s why Sing structures can be used efficiently in disaster and severe weather condition for emergency or safety precautions. One of our clients said, “If my house ever gets picked up by a hurricane, all I have to do is find out where it landed and probably have to replace the glass. This thing’s solid, like a rock.”

Insulated

Featuring pre-insulated Sing Core, you will keep cool in the Summer and warm in the Winter (R3.5 or R6.5 per inch) while enjoying the peace and quiet that comes with innate sound deadening qualities as well for increased privacy and safety in your little homes.

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While the most sophisticated high-end small homes are made using patented Sing Core technology, it’s no wonder that homeowners and builders who are likely not to settle for anything less than the very best will seek out Sing products to build any structure, including their next:

Storage Shed Garage

You guess it! Why not have all these features available in your storage shed or garage?

Imagine building your structure quickly without heavy equipment or tools and having the safest and most secure environment for storage of your items that you want to be protected and unhindered by the storing process.

The Pacific Northwest is the home of Sing Core and in this wet and wild part of the United States we know how critical it can be to maintain a moisture-free environment for either short term or long term storage; the last thing that you want to do it to put your belongings at risk by exposure to mold or mildew.

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The Reinforced Structural Insulated Panels have built-in insulation that protects your precious belongings so that you don’t have to worry about unnecessary exposure to mold and/or mildew making Sing RSIPs the best solution for safeguarding the storage of perishables including moisture sensitive items like photos, books and magazines. See: Comparison to other materials

How to Connect Sing Tiny House RSIPs?

There are many ways to connect your Sing Reinforced SIPs. See: Build a Wall for wall panel options for building the best modular homes.

How Do I get Sing Products?

You can also inquire about Sing products here, by contacting your architect or contractor, and even at your local lumber yard. For more information, see: Pricing

Designing, Ordering, and Building Your Tiny House

Some of the finest, high-end tiny houses are built using Sing technology. With the lightweight, durability, and affordability you can build the tiny house that best suits your needs. Click here to find out more.

Make money with Sing Core work from home

Make money in the comfort of your own home! Click here to learn more.

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Room Partitions Temporary Wall

Temporary wall room partition prefabricated portable room dividers lightweight high strengthSing room partitions, office partitions and bathroom partitions are the top-of-the-line in lightweight, high strength insulated temporary wall systems in New York City though we ship throughout the United States and Canada daily, as well as exporting for International projects.

What makes Sing modular wall panels such a great solution is that they are not only lighter in weight than other systems and stronger (than steel pound for pound) but the built-in insulation reduces energy costs and provides sound-deadening qualities. Not to mention the ease of set-up and tear-down in temporary applications.

Whether you’re making a flow wall or partition wall, prefabricated Sing modular wall panels give you the best results in the least amount of time while yielding the highest performance and satisfaction.

Using Eco-friendly Sing sandwich panel as your room partition are not only responsibly sustainable but give you the added convenience of having a portable wall with acoustic treatment characteristics.

Suitable for all your needs

With our free standing room dividers, you can easily move these walls to your liking. With SingCore, you can create different room styles for each occasion. Click here to learn what you can create with SingCore.

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If you’re looking for temporary walls NYC, you’re bound to discover the Sing solution in the best Manhattan pressurized walls. In NYC, temporary walls are having a huge impact on the socio-economic structure of NYC, separating a single room into two useable spaces, or turning one bedroom into two and making better use of available space in private homes and commercial businesses.

You might be surprised to learn that approximately 50% of all our out-bound shipping goes to New York City, where you will find Sing portable room dividers as the best temporary wall nyc. With a little ingenuity you can create your own pressurized wall in NYC.

Pressurized walls give the end user the ability to create modern room dividers that could be used as everything from a party wall to office room dividers. The applications are so varied that they include stage walls used in theater performances, art displays or use as a fake wall for effective concealment.

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Sing Insulated Panel Functional Wall Divider Unit Lightweight High StrengthYour Sing wood room dividers enable you to quickly and easily have a movable wall that acts as a modern room divider that can be created as needed anytime, anywhere in any configuration that helps to maximize the space inside your home. One of the more popular ways to conceal a room division is with a lightweight, high-strength bookshelf room divider (no permit necessary because it is classified as furniture).

Increase privacy and security on demand with your patented Sing panel sound-deadening room divider.

In the Office

Sing Modular wall panels help to reconfigure your workspace by offering a high precision office partition that can be assembled as folding partitions, wooden room dividers or demountable partitions as needed. Use them as one of the ways to ways to divide a room or rapidly constructed cubicle panels or moveable walls.

Commercial / Industrial

In commercial and industrial applications Sing modular wall panels are made with insulated wall materials that excel as either an interior wall or exterior wall depending on the exterior finish of your room divider wall which can be modified to match your specifications.

Modular wall panels room dividers nyc fake wall temporary pressure wall nycImagine having a lightweight, high strength sound proof wall that can function as operable partitions or demising walls for standalone use, in conjunction with your modular building systems or inplant offices.

How to Build a Temporary Wall

You might be surprised to discover how fast and easy it is to build a temporary wall using Sing modular wall panels that instantly create pressurized wall space dividers that could provide you with added benefits of having sound proof room dividers made of Sing’s prefab walls. See: How to Build a Temporary Wall for more information on how you can easily build contemporary room dividers as you do it yourself.

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How to Build Any Structure Insulated Lightweight High Strength

Many designers, engineers, contractors and enthusiastic do-it-yourself home builders have found the newest and best building material to build better structures more rapidly at reduced cost and labor that are:

Frameless
Sing’s patented torsion box/foam composite core creates a solid reinforced structural insulated panel that has all the structure needed built-in so you do not need to frame your structure.
Insulated
The insulation in Sing products yields an R3.5 or R6.5 rating per inch providing temperature control and sound deadening qualities.
Lightweight
Due to the responsible use of natural wood fiber for the torsion box core and lightweight rigid foam to fill the voids, these solid composite panels weight a fraction of other solid flat building materials.
High Strength
The strength of Sing’s vertical grain torsion box/rigid foam structure has been tested by the University of Washington to exceed 660 PSI. (Compare that to other aerospace panels rated at 10 to 110 PSI.)
Eco-friendly
All sing products are made in the USA using the best of natural and recycled materials requiring very little energy generating little or no waste and manufactured with high-grade, waterproof formaldehyde-free adhesives.

Due to the growing popularity of patented Sing Core’s versatility, we get many requests about how to build various types of structures. The truth of the matter is that we do not participate in the R&D process; all we do is provide the panels, posts and beams made to the specifications of the engineers and architects (see clients list). They already have their connection methods in place and we make this information available to you.

How to connect Sing caterpillar construction method

See: Connection Methods

Foundation

When you are building a structure of any type it is good to start from the ground up. Sing Core can provide the best structural foundation components that are lightweight yet stronger than steel pound for pound.

Floor

You can have the best lightweight high strength floor system requiring very little structural support because the structure is already pre-built into the insulated flooring with no need for a sub-floor. The lightweight of the structural floor panels makes building quick and easy.

Walls

Besides doors, walls are the most sought out application for Sing Panels due to their unparalleled strength, insulation and lightweight. They come in two varieties, either with (Sing Panel) solid wood edges for connecting or without (Sing Sandwich) depending on your connection method of choice. Uses of Sing walls are found amongst a wide variety of applications from warehouses, temporary structures, complete homes, storage units, garages and sheds, tiny houses, and grow rooms. Sing walls excel indoors or exposed 100% to extreme weather conditions.

Ceilings

Sing Sandwich and Sing Panel both find their home above your head as well as below your feet. The choice of using either a Sing Sandwich or Sing Panel depends on the design and configuration of your structure. As always, Sing Core manufacturers your Sing products to your specifications for load-bearing performance, insulation qualities for temperature control and sound deadening ceilings.

Roof Structure

Sing Beams are an amazing revolution to be found in the top of the best structures known to man and are still elegant in their appearance as they can look like solid wood beams and can also take on the appearance of solid aluminum, steel or any other flat building material according to your specs. The lightweight reduces labor and equipment costs as well as the risk of on-the-job injuries when working overhead on the upper structure of the building.

Roofing

Using Sing product in your exterior roof applications make more sense than any other roof material. The high strength reduces the need for roofing substructure, while the insulation provides an extra barrier to the elements.

Entire Homes Built of Sing Core

So it’s no surprise that some of the most discriminating homebuilders are using Sing products to build entire home. In fact, homes have been built entirely of Sing Sandwich, Sing Panels, Sing Post and Beam, even the furniture can be built using Sing products, everything except the glass, fixtures and the doorknob.

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Torsion Box Improvement

Torsion Box (lightweight panel, sandwich panel, honeycomb panel)

1. What is Torsion Box?

The revolution or evolution of wood working, metal fabrication, plastic and cement meets the invention of patented Sing Sandwich core (see the many uses of Sing Core). Sing Panel provides the wood worker with pre-built torsion box.

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Traditional torsion box (above) which could take all day to build

or insulated pre-built Sing reinforced torsion box (below)

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2. Why Torsion Box?

torsion box animationBecause other methods of building a table top are basically inefficient. For instance, a table top built of a solid material will shift and move over time compromising its degree of flatness. Also solid materials that are less likely to move are extremely expensive, heavy and would only be considered for a permanent fixture.

The torsion box table top design gives as flat a surface area as possible while reducing the weight of the table top due to the hollow areas in the center of the boxes. Using a torsion box design, a craftsman can build the most flat surface using 1/10th the solid material.

3. How does torsion box work?

aka: lightweight panel, sandwich panel, honeycomb panel

Examine the theory behind the torsion box/sandwich panel/lightweight panel/honeycomb panel

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Sandwich Panel Core

Use Sing torsion box to replace conventional wood core, particle board core for the true flat, light weight and high strength characteristics.

 There are several core materials also widely used to function as torsion box such as:

* Wood core
* Furniture wood core
* Table wood core
* Solid wood core
* Wood core table
* Wood core furniture
* Wood door core

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Why do craftsmen use wood core? Because it reduces the cost of exotic woods and by alternating grain orientation – like plywood – it can help to minimize warping; but even plywood warps and is very heavy. Using lightweight Sing torsion box may eliminate warping altogether.

* Sing torsion is 10% of the weight of solid wood based core.
* Sing torsion box is stronger than steel lbs for lbs.
* Sing torsion box is safe to work with
fewer injuries if the object is a large door
table or large piece of furniture.

Get your torsion box pre-built for you in 2 ft. x 4 ft. sections

Imagine being able to build a torsion box work table and hundreds of lightweight, high-strength true flat, non-warping panels – endless applications – without the time, energy and cost of building the torsion box yourself?

Sing core torsion box plywood lowes home improvement warehouse

lightweight panel honeycomb high strength guaranteed true flat table tops4. How to work with Sing torsion box


Just use your normal wood working tools and treat it just like you would solid wood core, particle board core (substrate) or any other core materials (lightweight core, sandwich core, honeycomb core). The best core (click here to see charts to compare) material at an affordable price.

Patented Sing Core supplies the military, high-end millworks, general contractors and architects across the USA (see clients list) with massive torsion box structural panels that are lightweight, stronger than steel pound for pound and perfect true flat –> click here <– to see premium Sing Panel for large door applications guaranteed to be true flat and stay flat for 50 years.

Solid wood and metal will move and adapt to temperature compromising the functionality and seal of the most elegant hand-crafted wood door. Diligent woodworkers have sought out Sing’s solution to the oversized wood door.

The same scientific solution of reinforced torsion box applies to tables and other structures that can be built without traditional wood framing for furniture or stick-built homes.

Close up side view of exposed torsion box honeycomb foam core sandwich panel

5. How to build with Sing torsion box

Make-your-own-Sing-Panel-Cold-press-methodIt’s easy to build your own products on demand, as you need it in any size you want.

This is the most popular in-house Sing technology used by craftsmen and millworks.

You might have never known how easy it is to build using this cold-press drop-in method.

How Easy Is It?

This is how simple it is to for you to use our pre-built torsion box.

1-Apply-regular-carpenter-glue-to-bottom-skin

All you have to do is to coat the underside of your bottom skin with regular carpenter glue…

2-Assemble-wood-edges-on-top-of-glued-skin

Place your wood edges atop the glued-side of the skin…

3-A-Insert-Sing-Sandwich-Substrate-material3-B-Insert-Sing-Sandwich-Substrate-material

 

 

 

 

 

Then fill the void with pre-built torsion box pieces until full.

4-Place-glued-top-skin-in-place

Place glued top skin onto your completed work…

Cold-press-until-dry

Finally cold-press until dry (those two pc of panels to hold the gluing object are made of Sing panel).

This simple cold press (above) is made of two pieces of Sing panel (one on the top and one on the bottom) and clamped together with pipe clamps.

It’s that easy: Congratulations; you just made your own insulated reinforced torsion box panel!

6. $50 to Share Your Sing Project with Sing Core

plenty-of-entrepreneurs-are-on-the-lookout-for-that-perfect-green-business-opportunity-that-are-both-lucrative-and-eco-friendly_-300x287Submit a copy of your receipt along with drawings and photos of your project built with Sing Sandwich. If we feature your project on our web site (singcore.com) you will receive a $50 cash reward for sharing your project (with your name and full credits) to help make the world a better place. You will also receive a certificate recognizing and honoring your sustainable efforts.

Thanks for a Better World

It’s our way of saying thanks for helping us make a sustainable planet for all creatures using patented Sing Sandwich panels.

 Details, photos and instructions compliments of Lightweight University.