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The Garage Door Solution

Sing Core Garage Doors

The most common problem for garage doors is the continuous exposure to the outdoor elements. Which subjects one side of the door to daily changes in temperature while the other side sees a constant interior temperature. This is where a solid wood garage door would fail and crack due to the wood expanding and contracting inside the door. This is a major flaw which requires frequent maintenance, such as repainting and resealing to prevent water damage.

 

Now with a Sing Core door, a garage door can have any skin from metal to old growth Douglas-fir.

Aluminum and metal skinned

Aluminum is a great option for sliding barn doors. The aluminum produces a lightweight and strong finished product. To seal metal and aluminum doors from the elements we have discovered the perfect solution, vinyl wrap.

 

 

 

Vinyl Wrap

Vinyl wrap will adhere to any door’s surface. The glue will seal out any moisture. The vinyl is fully customizable to any design of your liking and will provide full UV protection of your door. Learn how to build a true flat long lasting carriage door here.

 

 

 

Wood Skinned

The best choice for a wood garage door is AB plywood or marine plywood. There’s no need to worry about the plywood cracking with the inclusion of proper finishing when using Sing Core thanks to our patented and patent-pending torsion box “honeycomb” design. This is why they are used on our Sing Core homes.

Wood Stave

A superior addition to any door is to add wood stave to the face. Our most common wood stave products are clear cedar and douglas fir. With wood stave applied, the door looks like it’s made of solid wood.
Unlike a thin .020 wood veneer; wood stave can be sanded and repaired if damaged. Making wood stave a more durable solution to high traffic areas or commercial applications.
Does your customer need a rugged wood stave skin or a thin veneer? Ask one of our knowledgeable sales engineers about the pros and cons of different skin options and they would be happy to walk you through your options.

1/8″ wood stave is all that is necessary to make your door look like it is made completely out of solid wood. But the secret inside is that your door is exponentially stronger and more stable than a standard solid wood door. Your Sing Core door is also almost a third of the weight of a comparably sized solid wood door. Being lightweight expands the choices of hardware, reduces labor costs to install, and is safer in inclimate weather. This applies to all doors with Sing Core inside; pivot doors, sliding doors, pocket doors, carriage doors, bi fold doors, and other doors with unique hardware configurations. Learn more about wood stave here.

Large Pivot Door 126.5 x 60 x 1.75 White Oak High Strength Straightest Lightest in the Industry

 

We have a very large inventory of wood stave in stock. We will sell the wood stave by the square foot and have a wholesale option. Wholesalers are eligible for discounted pricing on wood stave lots. Contact our sales team for details about wood stave lots here.

 

 

 

 

Below are a few of the other examples of garage/barn doors we make.

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Seattle Center for Architecture & Design

Seattle architects are renowned for their commitment to green building, energy efficiency and innovation. In the next few days, the new Center for Architecture & Design in Seattle will be featuring the newest revolution in green building products in their facility further promoting environmental awareness throughout the Pacific Northwest and the world.

Center for Architecture and Design Seattle Under Construction

Patented Sing Core® is delivering 4 large pivot doors, all the office furniture, furnishing the lounge and lunchroom which covers most of the space in the design center.

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Example: Sing Core is providing a door panel for a large pivot door measuring 12 ft. x 10 ft. x 3.5 inches thick that weighs a mere 500 lbs. plus the added benefits that come along with using the most Eco-friendly non-warping material ever invented.

Large extreme edge pivot swing doors with man door Center for Architecture Design Seattle singcore

4 men installed these large pivot doors in less than 2 hours

 

Large modern pivot doors with man door lightweight high strength Seattle center Large extreme edge pivot doors lighweight high strength guaranteed non warping

 

Foam-Panel-Interior-Structural-Torsion-Box-Sing-Core-RevealedFour of these high performance pivot doors will swing open by an extreme edge pivot (a challenge solved with Sing Core) to reveal a large, expansive hallway; when closed will create a quiet, cozy conference room. These engineered pivot doors will be fully insulated, fire-rated, sound-deadening and guaranteed non-warp for 50 years.

All the office desks, shelves, partition walls, tables, wall cabinets and other casework are made of Sing Panels. Some tabletop/shelves are one 33 ft. piece in length and designed for easy assembly on the job site.

Sing Core is proud to support the Center for Architecture & Design in Seattle by contributing by donation and promoting sustainability and education in true green design and architectural materials.

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Panel Carry


What Are Sing Honeycomb Panels?

Sing Honeycomb is a sandwich panel composite material with built in structural grids. Our grids are made of vertical grain renewable veneer wood fiber, and foam. We construct our Singcore in a fashion similar to torsion box technology most commonly found in the airplane industry. This technology is what allows our panels remain strong, lightweight, and flat without denting, cracking, and warping. See a comparison here. Inventor Peter Sing uses this torsion box technology, along with wood fiber and foam to create patented Sing Honeycomb: the incredibly strong, true flat, lightweight, renewable composite material of the future. Check out our products section to see a few different applications.

Sing Core cut away to see torsion box core Singcore Core Structure
The secret of the Sing Honeycomb panel is in the Singcore. Our Singcore utilizes torsion box sandwich core technology to ensure strength, and allow our product to be lightweight.
16' x11' factory door made with 6mm Luan Plywood Skins True Flat
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels utilize torsion box strength technology in order to ensure flatness.
Vertical Grain Veneer is the heart of our core Vertical Grain Wood Fiber
The heart of soul of Sing Honeycomb is in our patented Singcore invention. The core utilizes renewable vertical grain wood fiber and foam, to create our strong, lightweight, composite material.
Sing Core factory doors are very strong Strength
Sing  Honeycomb is stronger than solid wood, plastic, metal, glass, brick, and  concrete in terms of lbs. per lbs comparison.
Sing Core factory doors are very light weight Lightweight
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels are strong, flat, and lightweight. A  4’ x  8’ x 1 ½” panel with 1/8 “ Luan skins, and solid wood edging weighs in at about 55 lbs. A standard sheet of plywood weighs in at about 96 lbs.

Sinc Core panels are resistant to rot Rot Resistant
Even without coating, Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels outlast plywood, solid wood, MDF, and particle board. Plywood and engineered wood rot crack because of the weak glue layers. Sing Honeycomb panels last because underneath the skins lie Singcore, which keeps the panels flat through torsion box technology, and therefore doesn’t allow the panel to crack.

 

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What Are Sing Honeycomb Panels?

Sing Honeycomb is a sandwich panel composite material with built in structural grids. Our grids are made of vertical grain renewable veneer wood fiber, and foam. We construct our Singcore in a fashion similar to torsion box technology most commonly found in the airplane industry. This technology is what allows our panels remain strong, lightweight, and flat without denting, cracking, and warping. See a comparison here. Inventor Peter Sing uses this torsion box technology, along with wood fiber and foam to create patented Sing Honeycomb: the incredibly strong, true flat, lightweight, renewable composite material of the future. Check out our products section to see a few different applications.
Sing Core cut away to see torsion box core Singcore Core Structure
The secret of the Sing Honeycomb panel is in the Singcore. Our Singcore utilizes torsion box sandwich core technology to ensure strength, and allow our product to be lightweight.
16' x11' factory door made with 6mm Luan Plywood Skins True Flat
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels utilize torsion box strength technology in order to ensure flatness.
Vertical Grain Veneer is the heart of our core Vertical Grain Wood Fiber
The heart of soul of Sing Honeycomb is in our patented Singcore invention. The core utilizes renewable vertical grain wood fiber and foam, to create our strong, lightweight, composite material.
Sing Core factory doors are very strong Strength
Sing Honeycomb is stronger than solid wood, plastic, metal, glass, brick, and concrete in terms of lbs. per lbs comparison.
Sing Core factory doors are very light weight Lightweight
Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels are strong, flat, and lightweight. A 4’ x 8’ x 1 ½” panel with 1/8 “ Luan skins, and solid wood edging weighs in at about 55 lbs. A standard sheet of plywood weighs in at about 96 lbs.
Sinc Core panels are resistant to rot Rot Resistant
Even without coating, Sing Honeycomb sandwich panels outlast plywood, solid wood, MDF, and particle board. Plywood and engineered wood rot crack because of the weak glue layers. Sing Honeycomb panels last because underneath the skins lie Singcore, which keeps the panels flat through torsion box technology, and therefore doesn’t allow the panel to crack.
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Furninture Index

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About the Sing Furniture Line

Chic, Strong, Lightweight, Long-Lasting, and Versatile: The Sing Honeycomb Furniture line is chic, strong, lightweight, long lasting, and versatile. Our furniture is made of our patented Sing Honeycomb panels which utilize torsion box technology to ensure strength. Each Sing furniture piece is strong enough to support up to 600 lbs. Sing furniture is also completely DIY. Our products are easy to put together and take down.

 

See the revolutionary Sing 5 Drawer Dresser

Environmentally Friendly and Made in the USA: Sing furniture panels are environmentally friendly. The only materials used to construct our panels are wood veneer combined with recycled EPS foam and non-toxic glues. All of our products are manufactured right here in the USA.

Sing Furniture Strongest Furniture is Sing Honeycomb

 

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How to Buy

Ordering Sing Furniture is easy! To order Sing Furniture 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.

Above: A beautiful captan’s bed made from Sing Core Furniture Panels

Strong drawers complete the funtional beauty of the captain’s bed.

Look! This drawer is easily holding up to 600 pounds!

A modular bookshelf constructed from SingCore Furniture Panels.

3 maple wood stave tables designed for Microsoft.
Maple wood stave tables.

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Sing Sandwich Panel

Sandwich Panel

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Standard sandwich panels utilize an insulating foam core sandwiched in between two thin sheets of hard material.  However, this design offers very little strength and durability. Sandwich panels made by Sing Core are stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly than these conventional panels because we replace the standard foam core with our patented vertical grain, natural veneer torsion box grid also known as the Sing Core.  For the consumer, this translates into a higher quality product at a fraction of the cost.

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Insulated doors made with traditional sandwich panels are highly susceptible to dents and structural damage because of their weak foam core.  Doors made with our Sing Core sandwich panel technology can withstand much higher impacts resulting in little or no damage due to our unique core properties.  The University of Washington has confirmed that our doors can withstand pressure of up to 660 psi, as compared to the average sandwich panel which can only withstand 60-100 psi.

 

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How can Sing Core sandwich panels be used? Doors, shelving, table-tops, flooring, bookcases, furniture, outdoor decking material, truck/trailer beds even water tanks, to name a few. The possibilities are endless.

 

 

If you desire products that are lightweight, strong, durable, dimensionally stable, and eco-friendly, then you must try our Sing Core Sandwich Panels.  We like to demonstrate our confidence in the integrity of our products by offering our customers a 10 year structural guarantee.

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Since our company’s inception, our products have made in the U.S.A..

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Or fill out our Work Order Form to get a free quote.

 

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Going Green

Environment & Economy Friendly

How is Sing Core “Green”, and why is it the most earth-friendly way to use both natural and man-made materials?

LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) provides a “cradle to grave” measurement of a product’s environmental impacts from raw material extraction and manufacturing through distribution, use, maintenance, and disposal.  An obvious example is a coffee or tea cup made of Styrofoam compared to a coffee mug made of the same material but enclosed in a solid container.  Solo cups are only used once then disposed of after use, unnecessarily filling our landfills.  Imagine that the same Solo cup material put into a permanent coffee mug, could last ten years without being replaced.  Sing Core protects the foam inside durable wood frameworks.  LCA studies show that using wood is less harmful to the environment than steel or concrete in terms of embodied energy, global warming potential, air emissions, water emissions, and solid waste production. Sing Honeycomb core structure is made of 100% natural vertical grain wood veneer.  This sets us apart from our counterparts who use only paper, particle board, aluminum, and plastic. Here at Sing Core, environmentally friendly construction is our mission.

Green-eco-friendly-sing-coreLow Energy Production

Sing Core’s patented manufacturing process is the most efficient and economical way to make sandwich panels with a veneer torsion box core.  The materials used in Sing Core sandwich panels use low energy to produce.  The adhesive used in Sing Core panels is produced in a much more efficient way than the minerals for nails are mined. The veneer is made of scrap material from Washington mills and the foam core is 20% recycled.

Renewable

Sing Core’s structure is made of natural vertical grain wood veneer.  This sets us apart from our counterparts who make cores with particle board.  It requires energy to break wood down into pulp and reconstruct it into particle board.  Veneer uses the natural strength of the wood fiber.  Life Cycle Assessment studies show that using wood veneer is less harmful to the environment than steel or concrete in terms of embodied energy, global warming potential, air emissions, water emissions, and solid waste production.  Here at Sing Core, environmentally friendly construction is our mission.

Non-Toxic

The structural glue and finishing stains that we use are all non-toxic and formaldehyde free.

Recycled

Our foam core has a recycled content of 20% and is 100% recyclable.

Energy Saving

Insulated, draft-free sandwich panels save your heating costs Sing has a long term stable R-Value. Sing Core panels assemble and install quickly, saving you man power and time.

Long Lasting

Sing torsion box sandwich panels are warrantied for ten years*, but may last much longer. This means Sing Core products will not need replacement or disposal for many years, cutting down on the resources used to manufacture panels. The foam used in Sing Core panels comes with a 20-year thermal performance warranty, dimensional stability, compressive strength, and water resistant properties. See instructions for repair and recycling.

This is a Sing Core overhead garage door panel compared next to a typical steel overhead garage door panel. Same size and thickness but as you can see the steel panel buckles with only a few pounds put on it while the Sing Core panel holds almost all of Inventor Peter Sings weight without any problem.

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Door Condition Plank

Applications -> Building Components -> Doors -> Plank Grade

Plank Method

 

Sing Honeycomb plank method doors are our most expensive doors. These doors look like solid wood, and can be any height and any width. These doors have thicker veneer than wood grain. These are formed by making separate planks, then connecting the planks separately.

Above: Individual planks ready to be connected

Above: Connect Sing Honeycomb planks before gluing

 

Above: Finished Sing Honeycomb plank door

Above: Sing Honeycomb white cedar oversized plank method Door

 

Pricing

Our plank method doors are the second most expensive doors. We custom create quotes for individual projects. Please contact us to get started.