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What is the best door material?

When it comes to choosing the right door material, homeowners and builders face numerous options, each with its own set of benefits and drawbacks. In this article, we will explore the unique features and advantages of Sing Core doors, comparing them to three other popular types of door materials: solid wood, fiberglass, and steel. By understanding the characteristics of each material, you can make an informed decision that aligns with your specific needs and preferences.

Sing Core Doors

Sing Core doors are a revolutionary choice that combines the best features of other door materials. They are constructed using a patented technology that involves a honeycomb core between layers of quality hardwood. Sing Core doors are known for their exceptional strength, lightweight nature, and resistance to warping, bending, and twisting. Additionally, they offer excellent soundproofing qualities and can be customized to fit any size or style requirement. Whether you’re seeking a residential or commercial door solution, Sing Core doors provide durability, energy efficiency, and aesthetic appeal.

Solid Wood Doors

Solid wood doors have long been a popular choice due to their timeless beauty and natural warmth. Crafted from a variety of hardwoods, they offer a sense of luxury and elegance to any space. Solid wood doors are durable, can be refinished easily, and have a decent lifespan. However, they tend to be heavier than other materials, making installation and movement more challenging. Additionally, solid wood doors are susceptible to warping or expanding in high-humidity environments. Regular maintenance, including sealing and painting, is necessary to preserve their appearance and longevity.

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Fiberglass Doors

Fiberglass doors have gained popularity for their durability and low maintenance requirements. They are resistant to rot, cracking, and warping, making them an excellent choice for areas with extreme weather conditions. Fiberglass doors can be designed to mimic the look of wood, offering a more affordable alternative without compromising on aesthetics. However, compared to Sing Core doors, fiberglass lacks the same level of strength and stability. They may be prone to dents or dings, and their insulating properties are typically lower than those of Sing Core doors.

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Steel Doors

Steel doors are renowned for their strength, security, and durability. They provide excellent protection against forced entry and are often used in commercial and high-security settings. Steel doors are resistant to fire, extreme weather, and pests. However, they can be susceptible to dents and scratches, which may require touch-ups or repainting. Steel doors also conduct heat and cold more readily than Sing Core doors, greatly impacting energy efficiency. Moreover, the industrial appearance of steel doors may not be suitable for all architectural styles.

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Conclusion

Selecting the right door material involves careful consideration of various factors such as strength, durability, insulation, aesthetics, and maintenance requirements. Sing Core doors offer a unique combination of strength, lightweight construction, and resistance to warping or twisting, as well as boasting numerous optional features such as security, sound proofing, and more. They outshine solid wood doors, fiberglass doors, and steel doors in terms of their overall performance, making them an excellent choice for both residential and commercial applications. However, personal preferences and specific project requirements should always guide the ultimate decision. By weighing the pros and cons of each material, you can confidently choose the ideal door type that meets your needs while enhancing the beauty and functionality of your space.

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Sing Core Security Door

Sing Core Security Doors

Your front door is the gateway between your home, family, and belongings, and the outside world. Nowadays, it’s not enough to just protect your home from the elements, your door needs to provide safety and security for you as well. Sing Core’s new Security Door provides the same durable and high quality comforts you’re already familiar with, with added protection against intrusion.

What is a Security Door?

A Security Door is used to provide additional protection and peace of mind over what a standard door can do. Whether used as an exterior door, an interior door, or even a garage door, our Security Door can bring this added safety to your home or business.

Sing Core door panels are already incredibly strong, resilient, and guaranteed to last, and we stand by those qualities. However, intruders are constantly looking for ways to bypass the protection provided by traditional doors. These methods can include using anything from a chainsaw, to a circular saw, to an axe. While we trust in the strength of our standard core, with enough time and strong enough tools, even they can be cut through. With our new Security Door, that changes.

Why Choose a Sing Core Security Door?

Sing Core Security Door Panels come with our patented high-quality honeycomb core and rigid steel reinforcements. The honeycomb core provides insulation, strength, and sound-deadening features, while also remaining incredibly lightweight. By adding the steel reinforcements, we double down on the strength and durability of the panel, making it incredibly difficult to cut or break through. Plus, the door remains impressively light for the quality it provides.

A traditional door can be cut through in less than a minute, and while it would often make a lot of noise, these break-ins are often done when no one is home, meaning you won’t be there to catch them in the act. Cutting through a Sing Core Security Door with the same tools would take substantially longer, and brings other challenges to the intruder, such being much louder, the likelihood of breaking a tool on the unexpected metal reinforcement, and a significantly higher chance of being caught.

In addition, these doors can be used in many cases aside from the standard front door scenario. Businesses with expensive equipment or sensitive documents may want to secure them in a more effective way, and luxury car owners may want a garage door that can’t simply be kicked in or cut through. You could even use Sing Core Security Panels to build a mobile and lightweight cabinet for on-the-go secure storage.

 

When it comes to your home, security is not an area where “good enough” is all you need. There are many ways you can improve the safety and security of your home, and installing a Sing Core Security Door is one of the most effective options. A break-in happens every 26 seconds in the United States, reaching 2.5 million break-ins every year, with over half being home burglaries. Let’s keep your homes and businesses off of that list.

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Cellar Door Access Panels Roof Hatch Doors for Sale

Sorm Doors at Lowes Home ImprovementWhether you’re looking for replacement doors for your cellar door, access panels or roof hatches, you will find that Sing Products build the best insulated doors that are lightweight, high strength, high precision and Eco-friendly.

Materials commonly used when replacing a door of these types of doors include corrugated steel, stainless steel laminate and other metal doors; some may have door kick plates (though these are not necessary because if you kick a Sing door, you will break your leg before you break the door).

Cellar Door

Bilco Lowes Cellar DoorWhether you are replacing an interior or exterior cellar door, an insulated Sing cellar door and/or basement entry doors for basement egress will remain high precision throughout the life of your cellar and can be guaranteed true flat for 50 years.

By far the best material to use in exterior cellar door applications, Sing products are extreme weatherproof, lightweight and high strength while offering increased safety and security.

Sing cellar doors are also used as storm shelter due to their rugged construction and impervious long life guarantee.

Access Panels

lowes access panelAccess panels can be located almost anywhere as an egress point for two adjoining spaces. Access can be vertical, just like any ordinary standard door built into a wall offering access from one room to another, or can be horizontal offering access from spaces that are either above (in the ceiling) or below (in the floor) the access panel’s installation location.

You will find Sing access panels used as bulkhead doors, if you desire the best access panel solutions for your bulkhead door.

Access panels are usually constructed of steel, stainless steel (can be powder coated), diamond plated steel, aluminum, fiberglass FRP or solid wood depending on the architectural specifications and design of the space.

Roof Hatch

VELUX Venting Skylight roof hatch lowesA roof hatch is basically an access panel positioned overhead in the ceiling to gain access to the roof of a building or structure. Due to exposure to the elements and possible extreme weather, Sing products supply an insulated material that is both waterproof and sound deadening.

Roof hatches do not always access the building’s exterior and offer access to the attic; actually an access hatch can be installed between any two spaces offering access above or below. An attic hatch will have a design and construction that could vary from the exterior roof hatch.

Wine Cellar Doors

ReliaBilt Wine Cellar Door at LowesSome of the most exquisite and renowned wineries in the United States specify Sing Core for the architectural design of their wine rooms as both wine room doors and walls.

You will also find Sing products installed in wine cellars in some of the most high-end homes as wind cellar doors, construction of wine room design; so it’s not just for use as wine doors.

Home Security Doors

Insulated Sing home security doors can host a surface material that looks ornate and beautiful as any standard wood door but can actually be a steel plate door or if you desire the exterior surface material could be more obvious, such as a diamond plate door.

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Steel Doors

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Core Value of Steel Doors
It is how steel door shapes the future by invention of Sing Core.

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Steel door technology has not made any major improvements since the development of EPS core which has higher insulation for replacing the paper core and wood based core used previously. Sing Core uses reinforced EPS or urethane foam to fill the voids of the structural torsion-box-like vertical veneer in those highly insulated Sing products, and… Viola! You have the strength which is approximately 30 times stronger than any other regular door made of foam. Steel doors made of patented Sing Core is the leading edge door technology that provides more insulation, strength and extremely lightweight. The end result is more Eco-friendly door; stronger and lighter weight without using heavy gauge steel but creating an even stronger steel door. Click here to see the steel panel regular foam vs. Sing core

Achieve the security, safety and elegance of the most economical, advanced steel door technology to your entryway with Sing Metal Doors made in your choice of high quality stainless steel, galvanized steel or cold rolled steel.

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This photo features a fully insulated 13 ft. x 3 ft. x 1 inch steel door with 20 gauge metal under 160 lbs. of load with hardly any deflection. No steel studs, no welding. See pix of steel panels ready for door applications.

Sing Steel Doors are the only insulated Eco-friendly steel doors that can be guaranteed true flat thanks to patented Sing Core’s torsion box/foam composite base material that not only ensures flatness at the time of manufacture but stays flat for centuries.

Lightweight

Honeycomb-Skin-Material-Options-Metal-AluminumYou get it all; Huge savings in heavy weight when compared to solid steel while exceeding standards of high-strength and built-in insulation backed by our limited lifetime guarantee at a fraction of the cost. It’s why we say, “Heavy does not mean strong – and light does not mean weak.” Sing Steel Doors weigh much less than other steel doors and do not require heavy steel reinforcement studs to achieve the high strength. Steel doors made Sing Core do not need expensive, heavy duty hardware required by regular heavy steel doors.

High Strength

Compared to solid steel doors, Sing Core is stronger than steel pound for pound. Patented Sing core could reach 1000 PSI strength vs. paper honeycomb core traditionally used in the steel industry and is changing how steel doors are made. Sing steel doors will not dent or kink like regular hollow core, paper core or foam core steel doors.

Economical

Patented Sing Core costs a fraction of high-end honeycomb substrates, like those used in traditional aerospace applications, and still outperforms any of them in lightweight, high-strength, eco-friendly economical solutions bar-none. And that does not even take into consideration the reduction in transportation/installation costs and reduction in maintenance and repair costs over time.

No Welding

no-welding-free-metal-fabrication-lightweight-eco-friendly-stronger-than-steelSing Steel Doors are manufactured without welding which reduces labor costs, environmental and health hazards and our patented method will not compromise the integrity of the steel surface of the steel door, like welding does. No need to compromise the integrity of your steel doors by incorporating the most high precision Sing Core (+/- .006 inch) material and our patented metal fabrication process.

Custom Lite Openings

Sing Steel Doors can come complete with custom lite opening cutouts for adding glass to your door. You are not limited to the type, shape or style of cutout for your glass opening. Other steel door companies offer a variety of window openings to select from. Sing Steel Doors allow you to create any glass enhancement that you can imagine.

Steel Door Replacements

Metal-doorSing Steel Doors are the number one replacement steel doors specified by architects and designers who demand high-quality and longevity backed by our rock-solid limited lifetime warranty. See our Clients List.

Steel Door Hardware

When it is of primary importance to achieve high-end security and stability of a steel door, one invariably runs into the issue of heavy steel doors causing additional strain on the structure and hardware. Patented Sing Core eliminates the heavy weight of solid steel while out-performing solid steel.

Service Industries

Sing Steel Doors are replacing other steel doors used in commercial, healthcare, educational industries as they are being retrofitted in schools, hotels, storm shelters and retail installations.

More Options to Meet Your Specifications

Sing Steel Doors are completely customizable to your specifications. For years the design teams have been working with architects, designers and contractors to solve the problems associated with pre-existing steel door technologies. There is nearly no limit to composite options that can be adapted to the sing Steel Door that will satisfy your requirements.

Variety of Applications

The versatility and customizable attributes of Sing Steel Doors offers almost unlimited applications including (but not limited to) bullet proof, lead lined, extreme weather, tornado, hurricane**, fire door, STC rated* and acoustical applications.

Available in Any Size or Configuration

Sing Steel Doors are available to meet your specifications and are not limited to a catalog of available items. Commercial steel doors are the best steel entry doors that are available in any configuration including steel double doors and commercial exterior steel doors.

Fast Turnaround Time

Special rush orders for custom size doors can takes less than one day if we have the materials required in stock.

Eco-friendly Sing Steel

Only Sing Steel Doors are a composite of patented Sing Core embracing our true green technology for a better world and steel which is one of the most recycled materials on our green earth.

Added Security and Benefits

Sing Steel Doors have the added benefits of increased security for vandalism-proofing, protection against windstorm or other acts of god, water proofing, increased fire protection and sanitation.

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Hot Rolled Steel Large Sliding Doors

 

* Note: STC rating varies according to size, thickness, skin, and other factors. Sing Core does not rate doors, although we are fortunate enough to have one of the best sound testing labs in the world, here in the Pacific Northwest. If you require a specific STC rating, Sing Core can build a door to your architectural specifications and have the resulting door tested at our rating facility for an official rating.

**Customer will need to perform lab tests to certify hurricane rating for local code compliance.

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Flush Wood Doors

The Best Architects and Millworks Choose SingCore for Flush Doors!

flush-wood-doors-open-flush-door-from-interiorAdd simple beauty and elegant appearance of a solid wood flush door to your home without having to sacrifice the qualities of a highly-engineered architectural wood flush door. Sing Core flush wood doors feature natural and composite construction materials that embrace true green manufacturing processes and you can take pride in knowing that your Eco-friendly flush wood door is Made in the USA. Among the many styles of Sing doors, wood flush interior doors offer the visual beauty and refinement of natural wood doors while using high-end composite materials that are used in aeronautics providing the end user a superior lightweight door with impressive attribute at a fraction of the price (see pix). Unlike other flush doors, Sing Core flush wood doors are:

  1. True flat
  2. Solid like a rock
  3. Lightweight
  4. Lock blocks installed on both sides
  5. Pre-insulated
  6. Sound-deadening
  7. Available in any size
  8. Low cost
  9. Guaranteed for up to 50 years
  10. Eco-friendly, true green technology

10×12 ft 3″ thick warp-free 1/8″ oak 520 lbs

The modern look and feel of Sing Core flush wood doors is expanded in practical advancements that let the homeowner enjoy added sound dampening offering peace and quiet features unavailable in other solid wood plank doors for superior sound control between rooms. Sing Core flush wood doors are available in beautiful wood grain finishes or paint grade and our acoustical wood flush doors are found in institutional, commercial, and residential environments for those who prefer high quality architectural wood doors. Some of our standard wood species include:

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MAPLE CHERRY OAK VG FIR WALNUT

Insulated Butcher block door with Sing Honeycomb coreMake your wood flush doors versatile, yet attractive, with your Sing Core architectural door that creates a bold, unique and modern appeal while remaining environmentally sound and come in a variety of wood species, from domestics to rare exotics. Per your specifications, these uniquely designed flush wood doors can be upgraded for acoustical, waterproof, fire-resistant, impact-resistant, even bullet-resistant applications, and are available as interior doors or front entry doors. Sing Core flush wood doors can be found in:

  • homes
  • retail establishments
  • hotels
  • condominiums
  • hospitals
  • municipalities
  • churches
  • restaurants
  • senior living facilities
  • schools
  • offices

Sing Core flush wood doors are resistant to warp, peel or rot and can be guaranteed true flat for up to 50 years.

Unparalleled versatility

Sing Core flush doors are also available in other materials besides wood species, including (but not limited to):

  • Sing-Core-Door-BrochureAluminum
  • Ceramic
  • Concrete
  • Fiberglass / FRP
  • Galvanized steel
  • Glass/mirror
  • HPL
  • Kevlar
  • MDF
  • Plastic
  • Plywood
  • Solid wood stave
  • Stainless steel

Our metal door is highly sought out for high security applications and large oversize doors.

See Sing Core Doors for more options and information.

We can supply flush wood door blanks by the truckload to every major door company that specializes in the prehung exterior door as well as prehung interior doors.

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

To order Sing Flush Wood 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 Flush Wood 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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Door Blanks

Applications -> Building Components -> Doors -> Door Blanks

Yes, Sing Core does specialize in high-end, oversize, custom one-off doors that are fit for a King, adorning palaces and mansions around the world, but we make this technology available to homeowners and commercial applications by teaming up with local door and window manufacturers across the United States. Likely, we have a partner near you.

Door blanksSing Core provides patented standard Sing Core door blanks available to door manufacturers, wood workers, contractors and millworks for use in traditional construction projects. This makes the Sing Core technology available to the masses at affordable pricing, and helps to make and keep jobs in the USA, supporting more local economies, while making the world a better place.

Our local millwork partners can turn a standard-sized door blank into a one-of-a-kind work of art, that is not only beautiful, but let’s you enjoy all the benefits of Sing Core, like:

  • Lightweight
  • Eco-friendly
  • Durable
  • Stronger than steel
  • Insulated
  • Sound-deadening
  • 10 year true flat & structural guarantee
  • Less expensive to install
  • Less stress on hardware
  • Less maintenance

Metal Door BlanksOur wholesale door blanks are supplied to your discriminating door company for use in a wide variety of door applications. Depending on your ideas, limited only by your imagination, you can use this technology in nearly any style of door. Here are some examples of how your local door company might use this technology:

  • Entry doors
  • Bedroom doors
  • Metal doors
  • Pivot doors
  • Glass doors
  • Fire doors
  • Inside doors for homes
  • Dutch doors
  • French doors
  • Pre-hung doors
  • Carriage doors
  • Sliding doors
  • Bifold doors

ready-to-ship-eco-friendly-lightweight-sing-core-panelsAlthough the most popular doors in residential installations includes any wood species available, Sing Core door blanks are also available in almost any other material imaginable, including (but not limited to):

  • Concrete
  • Brick
  • Ceramic
  • Fiberglass
  • Aluminum
  • Stainless steel
  • Fire-resistant Magnesium Oxide (MgO) Board
  • Bullet-proof Kevlar
  • … and so much more

Basically, Sing Core door blanks are available in nearly any standard construction material, making the possibilities limited almost only by your imagination.

Sing Core is constantly on the look-out for better ways to serve the general populace, and aggressively seeking ways to allow others to enjoy the sustainable, eco-friendly benefits of this patented technology.

Please contact us, if you are interested in experiencing this advantage for yourself, and/or your community for a better life for all.