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Building Barn Doors with Sing Core

When it comes to designing and constructing barn doors, selecting the right materials is crucial to achieve a perfect blend of aesthetics, functionality, and durability. One material that checks all of those boxes is Sing Core, a panel renowned for its exceptional qualities. In this article, we will explore why Sing Core is the best choice for building barn doors and other large exterior doors, as well as how it surpasses traditional materials in terms of strength, versatility, and sustainability.

Unmatched Strength and Stability

One of the primary reasons why Sing Core is the ideal choice for barn and exterior doors is its unmatched strength and stability. Constructed using high end materials, Sing Core features a lightweight patented honeycomb core pressed between two sturdy exterior layers. This composition results in an incredibly strong and rigid material that can withstand heavy usage and resist warping, bowing, or twisting over time. Barn doors made with Sing Core maintain their structural integrity even in demanding environments, ensuring long-lasting performance.

Lightweight and Easy to Handle

Despite its exceptional strength, Sing Core is remarkably lightweight compared to traditional building materials such as solid wood or metal. This feature not only eases the installation process but also makes handling and operation of the barn doors hassle-free. The reduced weight minimizes strain on hinges and tracks, resulting in smoother operation and a prolonged lifespan of the door hardware. Whether you are installing a single barn door or a set of double doors, Sing Core’s lightweight nature significantly simplifies the installation process.

Versatility in Design

Sing Core offers unparalleled versatility in design, making it an ideal choice for barn doors in various architectural styles. Whether you prefer a rustic, contemporary, or traditional look, Sing Core can accommodate your design preferences. Its compatibility with different surface materials allows for endless customization options, including wood veneers, metal panels, vinyl, and more. With Sing Core, you can create barn doors that seamlessly blend with the overall aesthetics of your space while adding a touch of uniqueness and style.

Longevity and Maintenance

Barn doors constructed with Sing Core offer unparalleled longevity and low maintenance requirements. The material’s inherent strength and resistance to warping or twisting ensure that the doors maintain their original appearance and functionality over an incredibly long time. Unlike solid wood, Sing Core is not susceptible to moisture-related issues, such as warping, making it highly suitable for barn doors exposed to varying environmental conditions. Additionally, every Sing Core door comes with a 50 Year Warp-Free and Structural Guarantee, so you can be confident in your door for many, many years to come.

Conclusion

When it comes to building barn doors or other exterior doors, Sing Core unquestionably emerges as the top choice. Its combination of strength, stability, versatility, and sustainability sets it apart from traditional materials. With Sing Core, you can create barn doors that not only exhibit exceptional durability but also offer endless design possibilities. Contact us to learn more about how we can enhance your barn door project.

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Upgrade Your Garage Door with Sing Core

Upgrade Your Garage Door with Sing Core


Garage doors are one of the most difficult, yet necessary parts of a garage. Whether they are sliding or folding, up and down or side to side, they serve an important purpose in the safety and security of your home.

Why are Garage Doors so Important?

Garage doors serve as the final layer of security between your vehicle and the outside world. In addition, most garages connect to the house by a simple door, which is often left unlocked or unsecured. This means that a simple sliding door is all that stands in the way of anyone attempting to enter your home. Many garage doors are incredibly thin plastic or sometimes metal, and are incredibly easy to get through.

These thin garage doors also offer very poor insulation, meaning if your garage is heated, you will watch your heating bill skyrocket as all that hot air leaks right through the door.

For these reasons, we recommend upgrading your garage door with a Sing Core product.

Why Sing Core?


Sing Core’s patented door panel design is the industry leader in custom, lightweight, and sturdy doors. They are lightweight enough to easily function as a garage door, whether folding, sliding, or otherwise, and provide incredible insulation during the winter months. Instead of wasting money by heating a cold garage with an inferior door, a Sing Core product helps keep that warm air inside, lowering your heating bill and making your garage significantly more enjoyable.

In addition, Sing Core products are incredibly easy to repair, and when repaired return to their full strength. This means that if you ever damage your garage door, you’re more likely to be able to simply get it repaired as opposed to having to buy a whole new product. Even this situation is unlikely, however, as Sing Core panels have a 50 year quality guarantee, so if your product ever fails on you, you can rest assured that we’ll make it right.

Does Sing Core Help With my Home’s Security?

It does! While standard garage doors are often thin, flimsy, and overall lacking in the strength and durability required to act as a secure door, Sing Core products are incredibly sturdy, and you can mount additional locks and other hardware as needed to guarantee a secure entrance into your garage, and possibly home. In addition, Sing Core products are stronger pound for pound than steel, meaning your lightweight and easy to use door is still incredibly durable, and won’t simply chip away or warp on you.

Summary

No matter what time of year it is, garage doors are constantly showing their faults. Whether it be poor insulation, poor security, or simply poor functionality, they are an annoyance that many of us have to deal with daily. Installing a Sing Core product for your garage door not only remedies the issue of insulation and strength, it also gives you the peace of mind to know that you garage and home are safe, and your custom door will last you for decades to come.

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Protect Your Home From the Winter with Sing Core

Sing Core and Your Warmth

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

Why Choose Sing Core?

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

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

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

What Are The Benefits of Sing Core?

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

What Kind of Doors Can Sing Core Make?

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

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

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Exterior Door Skins

Looking for exterior doors? Some are known to be better than others. You might know what you want, but is that the right exterior door skins to use on a door which may present challenges not long after installation?

The exterior surface material of your door (referred to as “door skin”) is a huge decision to make. While you might absolutely be able to see a particular type of door in your mind’s eye, you may find the door you’ve set your sights on will offer you far more problems than aesthetic beauty. Definitely worth considering before you settle on your decision to select certain exterior door skins over others.

For instance, some flat building materials that you might like to use as exterior door skins may be sensitive to changes in the environment and may have a problem facing the elements or extreme weather conditions. The good news is, new external finishing products are emerging regularly to help protect underlying surface materials from moisture penetration. Galvanized metal skin would be good exterior skin for applications near saltwater, and it can be painted! FRP provides protection from moisture as well. Wood stave skin provides much more protection than veneer skins.

These new technologies can be helpful in protecting metals that might rust or natural woods which might soak up rain, like a sponge.

 

The world’s best millworks are fully up to speed on all these latest technologies which help to protect your exterior door objet d’art from the elements. This helps solve one-half of the dilemmas which face door engineers and technicians. Then, there is the other half: Door warp.

Pretty much, all doors warp to some degree, so the American Woodworking Institute has established a standard for doors, which basically says that any door which does not deflect over one-quarter inch over a seven-foot-span is straight. Any deflection over a quarter of an inch would be considered as “door warp.”

All doors, door jambs, and door hardware take this ¼” variance of “straightness” into account in the design of all the adjoining components.

That’s where inventor Peter Sing’s patented and patent-pending Sing Core comes in.

With the advent of Sing Core’s warp-free door blanks, the top door manufacturers in the world can create oversized exterior doors of any size which can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist, or otherwise fail for 50 years. This is an unparalleled 50-year warp-free guarantee which was unheard of in the door industry previously.

There is little doubt that natural wood grain poses the greatest challenge for door warping in exterior door application. As beautiful as wood grain is, it is notorious for moving according to environmental changes. No matter how well you protect it from the weather by sealing the door completely (which is an important part of the process) wooden doors will warp, unless they have Sing Core inside.

Sing’s groundbreaking technology empowers architects to spec the most contemporary architectural doors made of ornate wood grains in any size, even large oversized doors, that can be guaranteed not to warp for 50 years, and Peter Sing puts his signature on the line.

Most of the most contemporary architects are willing to spec a sixteen- to twenty-foot-tall door with Sing Core inside without hesitation, though other industrial aerospace and military projects could feature large sliding doors reaching 70 ft. tall and over 200 ft. wide.

No matter what size your large sliding door is, if its 100 percent exposed to the weather, you don’t want it to warp, and there’s only one way to create such a warp-free door, and that’s with Sing Core inside.

Now, you can have natural wood grain skins on your exterior doors without fear of failure for the most sustainable exterior doors ever made in the USA and guaranteed for 50 years.

Wood Grain Exterior Door Skins

Not limited to wood grain doors (which are the most challenging), you may also use any other available flat building material and receive the same high precision and 50-year guarantee.

Other Exterior Door Skins

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Standard-sized Doors for Retail

You asked for it, and Sing Core delivers, and as always, goes the extra mile.

For years, Sing Core has been providing the most exclusive solutions for large high-end door manufacturing, made available to only the best custom door manufacturers and millworks. Since we started supporting the door industry rarely does a day go by when we aren’t dealing with many requests for standard-sized doors for retail installations.

Unfortunately, since our factory is only set up for one-off custom large doors, the cost of making a standard-sized door with Sing Core inside is just too cost prohibitive, except in the most high-end jobs with a large budget for architectural doors. That is, until now.

Introducing Retail-ready 3-0 x 7-0 Sing Doors

Financed by our success of building high precision Eco-friendly one-of-a-kind warp-free doors that can be guaranteed not to warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for 50 years (no other door company in the world can do that without having Sing Core inside), we have created a new division at our factory to build standard-sized 3-0 x 7-0 doors with Sing Core inside.

These warp-free flush doors are priced to sell, so that you can now provide the best doors to your retail clientele featuring Sing Core inside at a price point that is attractive and affordable.

Priced for Retail Kick-off Event

We are kicking off this new line of retail-ready doors in the most requested size: 3-0 x 7-0 doors, available for either interior or exterior applications. You also get to choose from paint grade, veneer, or natural wood stave Sing flush doors starting at $xx.xx each, with no minimum order.

Standard lite cut outs are available (8 styles to choose from). Doors with window openings cut require a 10 piece per cut out design minimum order.

Strongest Lightest Weight Doors in the World

Kick My Door

As we kick off this event, inventor Peter Sing invites you to kick his door, which is so strong, “You will break your leg before you crash my core.”

Sing Core is renowned world-wide as the only way to build a lightweight door using high precision (+/- .006 in. tolerance) core material which is stronger than steel pound for pound (660 PSI) for building doors that can be guaranteed not to warp or fail.

Note: Kick doors with Sing Core inside at your own risk.

Ready to Ship Unfinished Doors to You

As always, Sing Core does not finish, provide hardware, or pre-hang doors. Prices are for unfinished door slabs only.

To sweeten the deal even more, we will ship to your company direct. Sing custom doors are only shipped to millworks and custom door manufacturers only, because finishing and creating the ultimate warp-free door depends highly on the craftsmen who create the finished product.

Since these are standard 3-0 x 7-0 sized doors, there is plenty of hardware and retail-ready framing material available over-the-counter, so these doors do not require the same attention to details as our custom-sized doors. The only thing is, we need to trust your skills in finishing the door.

5-year Warp-free Guarantee

Assuming the door is adequately sealed and finished, Sing Core guarantees every one of these doors, both interior and exterior doors, to remain warp-free for 5 years, including full structure warranty.

Now you can order with confidence and at special retail-ready pricing your choice of 3-0 x 7-0 doors with Sing Core inside.

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How to Build a Sing Door

There is no doubt that Sing Core is responsible for the best doors in the world that can be built in any size for any functional purpose that can be guaranteed to not warp, bend, twist or otherwise fail for a full fifty years of regular use, even though Sing Core does not build doors.

Some individuals can be confused when they visit Sing Core and expect to just buy a pre-hung door that is the best door in the world, only to find that Sing Core does not actually make the door. Sing Doors are made of Sing Core, although we only supply the pre-configured base door material to achieve the results sought by the most demanding clients in the world.

Standard Size Sing Door Blanks

By popular demand SingCore introduces patented door core in economical and easy-to-use standard door width door blanks.

How does it Work?

In the real world, an architect, engineer, designer or the client conceives of the concept of their desired door. In many cases the high concept doors are problematic; some of them are large doors, which tend to fail due to their enormous size, while others may feature exotic materials that are susceptible to warp. Sing Core has the technology to create a lightweight substructure that is stronger than steel pound-for-pound and can be structurally guaranteed for 50 years under normal designed and manufactured use.

It might be helpful, for you to follow us on a journey through the making of a Sing Door.

A Day in the Life of a Sing Door

Door idea dream door concept any size any material any shape any design1 STARTS WITH THE DESIGN

The first step is the idea of the door, that beyond conceptual design is reduced to its most simplest form: The height, width, thickness of the door and the exterior material that is to be featured on the exposed surface(s) of the door.

Custom door design specifications sing core insulated torsion box door core2 SUBMIT TO SING CORE

The idea is then submitted via trade professional (possessing wholesale privileges) via our online quote request. The doors’ specifications are reviewed by our Non-warp True Flat Specialists, who can help determine what materials will be used inside the door to achieve the results expected by the end user.

If the client’s expectations include trouble-free high performance over a long life, the resulting design will be given special treatment resulting in a professional door base.

Exterior door guaranteed custom doors no door warp blank3 CREATION OF BASE DOOR

The resulting specifications are sent to Sing Core’s factory to custom assemble all the substructure components and composite materials necessary to achieve the results sought by the client.

This includes interior framing, insertion of Sing’s patented torsion box core material, solid inserts, lock blocks, fusion of other inner and surface materials plus any specified lite cutouts for installation of glass windows.

4 DOOR FINISHING

Exterior door handmade custom doors any size large door torsion box coreAfter the Sing Core factory has created the base door (door blank) it is sent to the door finisher; this could be a door manufacturer, custom millwork, industrial engineers or high end craftsperson specializing in ornate doors for elite consumers.

The door finisher applies the final finish to the door (trimming, edge routing, painting or other finish treatment), drilling, preparing the finished door for hardware and will likely install the glass (if specified, though sometimes this is done on site depending on the project).

The door finisher may (or may not) pre-hang the door (install all hardware and attach frame).

5 DOOR INSTALLATIONS

Then the door is packed up and sent to the job site, where the attending licensed contractor installs the final door.

Sing Crowd Manufacturing

In this sense, each and every Sing Door is a crowd manufactured project; it is a cooperative effort of many individuals from concept-to-installation, without whom no Sing Door would ever be made.

So, How Can I Get a Sing Door?

The process is simple; if you are a door company or qualify for a wholesale account, you deal directly with us, otherwise, you must seek out a professional anywhere within the Sing chain who will contact us and deal with us directly and they will partner with us by submitting your request to make sure you get the best door in the world custom-designed for the high performance that you demand.

If you are seeking out a Sing Door, we know who you are; you desire only the very best and will not settle for less and we are proud to be the only door partner in the world who can help to make you a door of any size using any material and meeting or exceeding your expectations, guaranteed.

Sing door blanks are created at our factory

Then they go to the door shop

Delivery to job site for installation

Non warp door blank for building non warping doors of any sizeYou could be one of the best door builders by outsourcing your OEM non warping door blanks.

Sing Core has served the building industry by providing the only Eco-friendly, insulated non-warp high-strength, lightweight door. Contractors who build Sing Homes (entire homes built of Sing products) want the added strength, stability, insulation and non-warping doors in all egress points for added safety and security.

First, we have to talk about what makes the best door in the world; it has to be:

1 Non Warp

Even the very challenging doors, large doors, sliding doors, pivot doors, all can be professional SingCore warp-free guaranteed for 50 years. The secret of the best door makers in the world is that they can use the Sing solution as their door’s base material to create a warp-free door, which is the best solution to the problem of warping doors, especially large doors which would otherwise be extremely prone to warp.

2 Lightweight, high strength, insulated and Eco friendly

The strongest lightweight door in the world is made with Sing Core inside. This revolutionary Eco-friendly building material is based on patented technology that is the best of old wood craftsmen’s technology (torsion box) and new composite technology (recycled rigid foam insulation) fused with advanced adhesives and enhanced with patent pending non-warp stiffeners. The result is an extremely lightweight panel that can span distances without deflection that has not been accomplished before in any affordable manner.

3 Easy to Install

Even the largest strongest sound deadening door can be installed in half an hour. This 500 pound Sing pivot door panel measures 10 ft. tall x 12 ft. wide x 3.5 inch thick and took less than half an hour to install in the Seattle Center for Architecture and Design.

Then, we will explain how to build the perfect door, step-by-step, showing the pictures of the entire process (even the most complicated French door, sliding door, pivot door, exterior door, etc…) with all types of skins/surface material.

How to build a patented Sing French door

Here’s how it’s done: Purchase a Sing door panel decide on custom lite cutout design and hire a pre-hung door company or millwork to install lite, hardware, sand and finish, then deliver the resulting door to your job site or customer.

Photo Tutorial

How to create lite openings for glass installation

How to Get Sing Core to Build Your Best Door

  1. Know what you want
    1. Have at least an idea or drawing of what you want your best door to look like
    2. Determine how many and what size of panels you will need for your door project
    3. Know what exterior material you want on your door panels
  2. Decide how you will manufacture your project
    1. Seek out a professional
      1. Door Manufacturer, Architect, Designer, Design/Build, General Contractor, Mill Work, etc…
        1. Give them your drawing, specifying Sing Core inside
        2. They will deal directly with us
  3. Congratulations!
    1. You are the proud owner of the most advanced door in the world that is
      1. Eco-friendly
      2. Lightweight
      3. High-strength
      4. Insulated
      5. High-performance (non-warping true flat doors, walls, furniture, etc…)
      6. Will last longer than anything made with any other material with these benefits

Mini Large Door Gallery

The size of the average non-warp guaranteed Sing door is 9 to 14 ft tall and/or 6 to 8 ft wide.

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