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Keep Your Home Cool with Sing Core

As temperatures begin to rise, many homeowners struggle to keep their homes cool and comfortable. High energy bills, drafty doors and windows, and inefficient air conditioning systems can all contribute to a hot and uncomfortable living environment. Fortunately, there is a solution that can help keep your home cool and comfortable all summer long – Sing Core door panels.

Sing Core panels are a revolutionary product that combines strength, durability, and insulation properties. These panels are made from a patented honeycomb core that is sandwiched between two layers of material, creating a lightweight and incredibly strong panel. But what makes Sing Core door panels truly unique is their insulation properties. The honeycomb core is made up of tons of small insulation pockets that trap air and provide exceptional temperature retention, helping to keep your home cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

So how can Sing Core door panels help improve your home and keep your house cool as temperatures rise? Here are a few ways:

Energy Efficiency

One of the main benefits of Sing Core door panels is their energy efficiency. Traditional doors are often made from materials that provide little to no insulation, allowing hot air to enter your home and cool air to escape. Sing Core panels, on the other hand, are highly insulated and can help to prevent air leakage, reducing the amount of energy needed to cool your home. This can lead to lower energy bills and a more comfortable living environment.

 

Customizable Options

Sing Core door panels are highly customizable, allowing you to choose from a variety of materials, finishes, and styles. This means that you can choose a panel that not only provides excellent insulation properties but also matches the style of your home. Whether you prefer the look of natural wood or the sleekness of aluminum, Sing Core panels can be customized to fit your needs. This also allows you to get a custom sized or fit door for your specific frame, providing insulation in a scenario that traditional methods may not be able to.

Durability

Sing Core panels are incredibly strong and durable, making them an excellent choice for exterior doors. They can withstand harsh weather conditions, including extreme temperatures, high winds, and heavy rain, without warping or failing. Our panels even come with a 50 Year Warp Free and Structural Guarantee, meaning you can trust them to provide long-lasting protection and insulation for your home.

Noise Reduction

In addition to their insulation properties, Sing Core panels also provide excellent noise reduction. The honeycomb core helps to absorb sound waves, reducing the amount of noise that enters your home. This can be especially beneficial if you live in a noisy neighborhood or near a busy street.

Easy Installation

Finally, Sing Core door panels are easy to install, making them a convenient and hassle-free solution for homeowners. They can be installed in many different ways to suit your needs, allowing for a quicker, easier, and better door.

In conclusion, Sing Core door panels are an innovative and effective solution for keeping your home cool and comfortable as temperatures rise. With their insulation properties, customizable options, durability, noise reduction, and easy installation, they are a smart investment for any homeowner looking to improve the energy efficiency and comfort of their home. Whether you’re looking to replace your exterior doors, update your interior doors, or improve the insulation of your home, Sing Core panels are a great choice.

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Being Eco-Friendly at Sing Core

Sing Core’s Eco-Friendly Design

Here at Sing Core, we strive to leave the Earth better than we found it. That philosophy drives our material sourcing, production methods, and many more aspects about how we run as a company.

Eco-Friendly Sourcing

When it comes to our wood, insulation, and other materials, we source them from the most eco-friendly places we can find. For example, the wood we use is renewable, and our insulation isn’t shredded fiberglass. Our panels are crafted to be high quality, long lasting, and strong, but we don’t sacrifice our Earth-conscious promises to achieve that.

 

Lower Emissions

Another way we keep our impact on the Earth in check is through lowering our emissions through local production. We are an all American company, and every one of our panels are made in Washington State. By staying local and keeping business in the country, we not only promote and help the economy, but also the environment, as we have significantly lower emissions and fuel consumption compared to companies that outsource their production. Shipping product, especially large custom pieces, can be incredibly time consuming and uses a lot of fuel. This fuel burning can harm the atmosphere, and in some cases, spills and damages can dump toxic gas and oil into the delicate ecosystems in the oceans. Sing Core doesn’t contribute to this damage on the planet, as we keep our production local.

No-Burn Factory

Many factories burn trash, chemicals, or other harmful materials in their production process. These places often have smoke columns and plumes of thick, dark smoke to mark where they are. At Sing Core, we don’t burn anything in our panel production. There is nothing in our process that requires burning, melting, or anything of the sort, and as such our impact on the atmosphere is near zero.

 

Better Product = Less Waste

Not to gloat, but Sing Core panels are incredibly strong. Not only that, they last a very long time, and even come with a 50 Year Structural and Warp-Free Guarantee. This may seem like a sales pitch, but it actually plays into our environmentally friendly mission. By creating panels that last a long time and can be easily repaired, we greatly reduce the amount of waste from replacing or scrapping projects. Every time a door needs replaced, it ends up in a landfill, or at best parts of it get recycled. With a Sing Core panel, you won’t have to worry about replacing the door any time soon, which in turn cuts down on our impact on the environment.

Sing Core strives for many things, such as creating the best door and wall panels on the market. But in these endeavors, we will never lose sight of the importance of being eco-friendly. We are also always looking for ways to lessen our impact even more, and are working to join the list of companies that can proudly say they’ve made a difference.

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How Sing Core can Improve the Sustainability of Your Building

How Sing Core can Improve the Sustainability of Your Building

Many buildings share a common goal: to become more sustainable and lower their impact on the environment. There are various ways to achieve this, and implementing Sing Core doors is one big step you can take toward this endeavor.

How Does Sing Core Help Sustainability?

Sing Core panels are used to make high quality doors with a long list of valuable features, including being strong, durable, lightweight, and more. One of the key features to boost your business’s sustainability and lower your carbon and energy footprint is the exceptional insulation provided by Sing Core doors.

Standard door options lack proper insulation, and as such allow the heat to seep outside and the cold to creep inside. Our patented and patent-pending designs feature quality foam insulation fit evenly throughout the entire panel, which works incredibly well at providing that barrier against the cold that is so needed in buildings. By ensuring the foam fills up 100% of the space inside the panel, we eliminate any voids or air pockets that could act as a drain for your hot air, thus boosting your energy efficiency. Offices, businesses, and even homes spend a lot of money on heating and cooling throughout the year as is. That amount skyrockets when we’re also trying to heat and cool the rest of the world, too, due to poor insulation.

By using Sing Core for your exterior doors, you are already taking a massive step toward energy efficiency. In addition, proper insulation and lower energy consumption is a key part of achieving a good LEED rating and LEED certifications. LEED scores buildings on their environmental impact and sustainability, providing certifications to those who are doing their part in lowering the industrial carbon and energy footprint that we’re leaving on the Earth. Sing Core is environmentally friendly and uses sustainably sourced materials, further securing our place in the race to save the environment.

We are striving to lower the impact of industries and businesses on the world and secure a sustainable future for everyone, and with your help, we can move further toward that goal. Sing Core is not only one of the highest quality, most Earth friendly companies in the door and wall industry, but we are also constantly pushing ourselves toward improving our product and the way we leave the world behind. We can’t do it alone, but together we stand a chance at changing the world for the better.

For more information on how businesses can lower their carbon footprint and become more eco-friendly, read up on the LEED certification process and target areas. According to LEED, the newest version of their rating system focuses majorly on a company’s carbon footprint and environment impact, but there are many other things businesses can do to help our world and boost their LEED rating.

Thank you for reading up on how Sing Core helps improve the sustainability of your building, and for your interest in learning how we can do our part in saving the world.

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Sliding doors at Laserfiche’s New Headquarters

Sing Core is honored to be part of making an innovative workspace for Laserfiche in Long Beach, CA.

RDC of Long Beach California designed these doors to work seamlessly with this interior workspace. Following the design of RMC, Seeley Brothers Millwork of Brea California used four custom made Sing Core panels to complete this project for Laserfiche.

These Sing Core sliding doors are used to allow these workspaces to feel like one larger room and a second later be a quiet and private meeting space. Sing Core doors naturally dampen noise of an active workspace to easily allow other employees to concentrate and be more productive. These were some of the core ideas that Laserfiche had when building their new Headquarters.

These elegant lightweight doors are extremely strong and durable. They are made of the highest quality material suitable for any museum, mansion or workspace.

As you can see these doors have to be completely straight to allow a perfectly matched seam when they are closed.

“They are the most exciting sliding doors I have ever seen” -Peter Sing, Sing Core inventor.

Simple to design, simple to order. See the shop drawings here.

See other sliding doors here.

Want these doors in your next projects? Get an estimate here.

We’d like to thank everyone that came together to make these magnificent doors come to fruition: Studio One Eleven, RDC Architects, Millie and Severson Contractor, Seeley Brothers Millwork and of course Laserfiche for wanting to improve their employee’s wellbeing with this innovated design.

Laserfiche is a leading global prover of business process and information management software. They have been part of the Long Beach community since 2001. They were founded over 45 years ago and also have offices in Washington DC, Guadalajara, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai and Toronto. 320 of the 425 employees are in the Long Beach area and they are steadily growing.

Their new headquarters was completed in May of 2022. It is over 100,000 square feet, with four floors and a parking garage. It can accommodate 550 full-time employees working in-office and up to 750 hybrid workers. Studio One Eleven’s design mirrors a landmark garden-office building across the street designed by the late Mid-Century architect Edward Killingsworth. They incorporated such Mid-Century Modern elements as large windows and terrace decks that provide amble natural lighting. The height is the same as the adjacent building allowing to blend in seamlessly. Chris Wacker, chief executive of Laserfiche, Wacker called the space “extremely functional and useful in a hybrid environment.”

The design layout shifted the service core to the western edge of the building, typically in the center. This allows a larger continuous communal and workspace environment. This also blocks the western solar heat. Now the elevator is tucked away and the stairs are front and center, promoting the healthier option of taking the stairs.

Laserfiche was committed to staying in the Long Beach area and are in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood. Here on Long Beach Boulevard near the San Diego Freeway, their Mid-Century landmark makes a bold statement to the half a million daily drivers who pass by. Before Laserfiche purchased this land, it was considered an unusable wasteland left over from oil extraction years. They capped off the old oil wells and removed the old hazardous tanks.

According to Chris Wacker, Laserfiche CEO, “We have abandoned the traditional vertical office building paradigm, emblematic of individual aspiration, for a horizontal environment where connections are fostered and relationships built and we’ve implemented ideas from our products into the design of the building we know that process automation makes life easier. It removes the bottlenecks and impediments to fluid operations, promotes efficiency and allows organization to thrive. This building’s open design does the same thing. It enhances the free-flowing information making our lives simpler and more creative.”

“This building is the future of work. People sharing spaces in the ways most productive for them. As we learned over the past two years, that makes the most productive for the company and the people that use our products. Just as Laserfiche is dedicated to helping people turn their data into digital assets, this building helps Laserfiche maximize the potential of its people. Laserfiche digital transformation increases your people power by eliminating the unproductive and focusing on the creative, and that’s what this building does. It’s a hybrid workspace for a hybrid workforce.”

Watch this video for a deeper look into this project from RDC.

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.

Thank you RDC and Studio One Eleven for the use of your photos and video.

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19′ Pivot Entry Door

 

 

Interior view of extremely large pivot door with hardware

 

Case study:

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

 

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

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

Exterior view of oversize pivot door with hardware

Opposing wood species

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

 

Lightweight oversize door

Lightweight

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

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

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

Adverse climate for keeping oversize pivot doors straight

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

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

Perfectly straight oversize pocket door

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

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

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

 

Need help finding hardware for your oversize pivot door?

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

 

 

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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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Sing Wood Planks

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Sing-Core-Wood-Planks-are-LightweightSing Core Wood Planks are elongated and rectangular solid wood on six sides, a lightweight super-strong eco-friendly alternative to solid wood material used in carpentry and the construction of ships, houses, bridges and other structures.

In stock standard sizes of Sing Planks:

  • 2×8
  • 2×10
  • 2×12

Though our most popular is our 2×12, Sing wood planks are available in any width from eight to twelve inches, any thickness from 1/8 inch to six inches and any length up to 50 feet long.

Wood Plank Doors

Sing Core wood stave door blanks are the only solid wood doors that will not warp, bend, twist or cup following installation.

Only patented Sing torsion box core/foam composite with our years of experience in providing guaranteed solutions for oversize doors that are guaranteed not to fail will deliver the high performance that discriminating clients seek.

Sing-Core-Wood-Plank-Walls-and-Wood-Plank-FlooringWood Plank Floors

Returning to our early American roots, many homes and buildings are returning to the natural beauty of wood plank floors. Sing Planks are available in a variety of options that include:

  • Tongue and groove
  • Any available natural wood finish
  • Ceramic tile (fire proof)

Wide plank flooring adds an unmistakable feel of warmth, tradition and comfort to any home.

Advantages of Sing Plank wood floors is that they are

  • Insulated
  • Sound deadening
  • True flat
  • Lightweight
  • Easy to install
  • Eco-friendly
  • No warping
  • Long lasting

Sing-Core-Wood-Plank-Home-InteriorsWood Plank Ceiling

Sing wood plank ceilings are rapidly gaining popularity in the Americas. More than just the addition of beams, planked ceilings add visual texture and interest creating great focal points in a room.

Wood Plank Siding

Since colonial times, Americans have protected their houses from the weather with thin, overlapping wood planks known as clapboards.

Sing Plank Siding is available in any wood surface including:

  • White pine
  • Hemlock
  • Spruce
  • Cypress
  • Western red cedar
  • Mahogany
  • Redwood
  • Teak wood
  • Cherry wood
  • Walnut wood
  • Cedar wood
  • Ipe wood
  • Sapele wood
  • Poplar wood
  • Ebony wood
  • Ash wood
  • Oak

And is also available in a wide variety of man-made materials such as fiber-cement.

Wood Plank Scaffolding

Sing Planks are commonly used as a work surface on elevated scaffolding; therefore need to be wide enough to provide strength without breaking when walking on them.

Sing-Core-Wood-Plank-Stairs-and-StaircasesSing Planks are also used in

  • Shelving
  • Stairs tread
  • Staircases
  • Wood plank walls
  • Cloud ceiling
  • Table top
  • Crown molding
  • Stair railing
  • Post and beam

 

If you’re checking with your favorite lumber liquidators, ask them about Sing Planks as your eco-friendly alternative to

  • Hardwoods
  • Laminates
  • Lumber
  • Plywood
  • Timber
  • Wood lumber

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See Also: Sing Post and Beams as well as our other find eco-friendly products

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

To order Sing Large Doors submit an order form either by email, info@singhome.com, or print and fax it to: 360.495.4585. We’ll provide a quote within one business day. If you have questions, please contact us.

Easy Ordering

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

Bulk Discounts

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

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

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

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

 

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Sing Metal Case Study

Case studies of patented Sing Metal honeycomb composite panel and Sing Aluminum honeycomb composite.

Metal is broadly used in many industries. Metal honeycomb composite is the leader of utilitarian usage of honeycomb core to create stronger and lighter metal panels and beams by using much less solid metal. Sing Core is the leading technology of metal honeycomb composite material to solve our future Eco-friendly energy solution by using Sing Metal honeycomb composite

Sing Metal is a fraction of the weight of solid steel used but many times stronger, lightweight steel plate, steel beam

The US Department of Energy should do some home work to research the Sing invention. You may believe that Sing Core will help us use less metal by switching to Sing honeycomb metal.

Case Study #1 

Do not waste more precious metal if you could use Sing Metal honeycomb panel, post and beam.

Replace steel by using Sing 13 ft x 3 ft x 1 inch Sing honeycomb metal plate for use in conveyor.

metal-belt-conveyors1 Advantage

Precision true flat within thousandths of an inch. Metal fabrication mostly relies on welding which causes the metal to deform. Sing Metal uses structure glue, nuts and bolt instead of welding metal plates onto the steel frame which takes more labor, energy and the end product cannot match the same precision as Sing Metal honeycomb panels.

2 Easy to fabricate and install

Lightweight is safer to process, less cost to transport, less labor to install…..

3 Less cost

Solid metal takes many times more metal than Sing honeycomb panel and post and/or beams. It is expensive to transport and requires more energy to process. And the most important thing of all is Sing Metal is much less expensive than solid metal plank(s) or sheet(s). If you consider the strength, lightweight and eco friendliness of Sing Metal as factors, the selection process between whether to choose regular solid metal material or Sing honeycomb metal is uncomplicated.

Case Study #2

If you’re the kind of demanding client who insists in high precision and true flat doors, panels, walls, floors, ceilings, RVs and boats are your R&D for your products improvement. Then we’d like to teach you how to Sing.

Sing Metal is part of the new technology that builds true flat doors.

If we are able to build true flat doors, then you can trust Sing Core to make true flat floors, ceilings, and walls, etc… that are lightweight with superior high strength and long lasting with endless benefits by Singing with us.

Metal-doorDoors are a challenge for door manufacturers and mill works if the door is over 8 feet in length and less than in inch thick.

One of the Sing Aluminum honeycomb panels are used as the true flat door’s substrate. It’s used in almost all major high-end residential and commercial door applications due to the true flat characteristics. Even a door made of Sing Core, which is considered to be the most flat door ever made in the industry (AWI standard is 1/4 inch deflection for a regular door) with a wood-based skin has to keep moisture totally balanced, otherwise it will bend and may require time to adequately acclimatize; if you move from place to place, it might takes days, sometime weeks to reach certain flatness.

Sing honeycomb door substrate will be less than 1/8 inch or less. But if you have a door over 12 feet, even over 16 feet, tall and less than 1.5 inch in thickness and you are desire to have the least amount of deflection, then you need to contact www.singcore.com  to find the true flat solution. In most cases using our Sing Aluminum panel as your substrate then adding MDF or AB plywood for a paint grade door, or by cold or hot pressing to add finished veneer(s) to build the most beautiful, strong, lightweight and Eco friendly door.

Doors made of Sing Aluminum honeycomb substrate do not need acclimatize due to having no moisture difference on both sides of the door substrate.

Sing Aluminum honeycomb door substrate can be machined or drilled just like wood without damaging the blade and it is easy to glue with proper clean-up up procedure(s).

Large oversized doors for high-end building projects require the true flatness. Patented Sing Core is the ultimate solution for top end millworks across the country.

Please click to see clients list of Sing Core doors.

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Whiteboard and Magnetic White Boards

We assist you in achieving the results that you desire and empower you – or your design staff – to create the tools that you need in the formats that best suit your needs in any size or format, including:

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  • Any size
  • Wall mounted
  • Portable
  • Free-standing
  • Framed
  • Unframed
  • Double-sided
  • Reversible
  • Magnetic

When you’re deciding on a whiteboard, it’s good to be confident that you can have a white board of any size that can easily be mounted, suspended and/or moved at a moment’s notice quickly and easily.

Though size may not be everything, the ability to order a dry erase whiteboard in literally any size (up to 50 feet in length) is a unique feature to offer your project, or your clients.

When compared to other dry erase board materials, the Sing Core whiteboard is the only Eco-friendly, lightweight, high-strength white board that comes with a limited lifetime guarantee.

Sing Core also offers magnetic and magnetic chalkboard varieties to meet your specifications or specific application(s).

For our most discerning clients, any standard whiteboard solution does not provide the adequate solutions like Sing Core’s Eco-friendly whiteboard or magnetic white boards.

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Your white board could be a sliding door, a giant chalk board or magnetic display

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

To order Sing Reinforced SIPs submit an order form either by email, info@singhome.com, or print and fax it to: 360.495.4585. We’ll provide a quote within one business day. If you have questions, please contact us.

Easy Ordering

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

Bulk Discounts

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

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

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

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