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SECTION 08 14 00 – WOOD DOORS
PART 1 – GENERAL
1.1 SUMMARY
1.2 SUBMITTALS
1.3 QUALITY ASSURANCE
1.4 DELIVERY, STORAGE, AND HANDLING
1.5 WARRANTY
PART 2 – PRODUCTS
2.1 MANUFACTURER
1134 N Summit Rd.
McCleary, WA 98557
2.2 MATERIALS
2.3 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
PART 3 – EXECUTION
3.1 EXAMINATION
3.2 INSTALLATION
3.3 FIELD FINISHING
3.4 ADJUSTING AND CLEANING
Receiving Instructions and Maintenance
Receiving Your Shipment
Inspect Before the Driver Leaves
Failure to document damage at delivery may void freight claims.
Delivery Planning and Unloading
Arrival and Storage of Sing Products
Upon Arrival
Temporary Appearance of Warp
Acclimatization Procedure
Proper Storage
If doors must be stored stacked
• Wrap in plastic
• Place plywood sheets underneath and on top of the stack
• This helps maintain even acclimatization
Jobsite Conditions
Fabrication
Safety
Blocking and Machining
Failure to seal machined areas may void the warranty.
Finishing Requirements
General Requirements
Surface Preparation
Timing
Finish Quality
Sun Exposure and Color
Exterior Overhang Requirement
All exterior doors must have a sufficient overhang.
Minimum requirements
• Overhang depth must equal half the distance from the bottom of the door to the underside of the overhang
• Overhang width must extend half of that same distance beyond each side of the door
This protects the door from weather exposure and is required for warranty eligibility.
Warranty-Critical Notes
Customers are responsible for notifying Sing Square Log Home Inc. in writing of all finishes and skins applied.
Maintenance
Sing Core partners with architects to help bring their creations to life. In many ways, Sing Core would not have its place in the building materials industry, if not for concerned and creative architects looking to push the envelope of contemporary designs. Assisting architects is the backbone of the Sing Core model.
We are so excited to work hand-in-hand with our architects as they develop one-of-a-kind creations ranging from single-person dwellings to enormous skyscrapers; and when it comes to oversize, no one makes an Eco-friendly composite building material that compares to Sing Core in terms of lightweight, strength and true flat.
How Lightweight Is Sing Core?
Everyone knows that Sing Core builds the largest doors that are lightweight, super strong, will not warp or twist and are true flat. For instance our largest doors weight-in at 2 lbs per sq ft. Compare that to any other material that would be 3-to-4 times the weight, and would not have the structural integrity or benefits of the Sing Core door, including less added stress to the hardware & structure.
How Versatile Is Sing Core?
Think about it; a door is merely a plank. Lay it down and it becomes a floor, raise it up and it becomes a ceiling or loft, on its side a wall; all with built-in structural framing and insulation. Cut it into stair treads or rip it into shelving or any size lumber that you might need on-the-fly, and it is also available in posts and beams. Not to mention the wide variety of surface materials that are available to give you the aesthetic, strength or true flat attributes that you desire, leading to endless applications.
See: True flat 25 foot oak conference table as an example.
Surface Material Options
Speaking of the many skin options, we work hand in hand with you to get you the product that you want. For instance, if you want your project to look as though it was built using solid wood, we can cover the material in any wood species in almost any thickness to meet your expectations. We also have used other materials, like aluminum, ceramic, concrete, glass, fiberglass, metals, plastics, steel, even fire-resistant mag-board and bulletproof Kevlar. You dream it, we will help you execute it and bring that dream to life.
Easy to Spec
Using Sing Core in your spec is as easy as 1-2-3 using our online price quote. Price is based on three things: Height, Width and Thickness. And Sing Core can host any flat building material including (but not limited to) concrete, fiberglass, any metal or wood species, just to name a few. Other options include surface material (or skins) to help bring your designs to life as it can host any flat building material to acts as an external skin to provide the specific attributes that you seek to deliver.
How Economical is Sing Core?
Besides being inexpensive in comparison to other high-tech aerospace composite materials, Sing Core saves money in many ways, including shipping and transportation costs, reduction in labor costs and on-the-job injuries and saving on supporting structures and substrates because Sing Core has built-in structure and is also an extremely strong substrate material. There is no need to insulate due to being pre-insulated providing an effective R-value of insulation (depending on your recommendations or requirements) and also has inherit sound-deadening qualities.
How Strong Is Sing Core?
In fact, Sing Core is so strong that it is the only composite material with enough brute force integrity to create structural posts and beams. Compared to equivalent aeronautic composite material Sing Core is at least ten-times the strength of these material at much less cost per square foot.
10 Year Guarantee
Sing Core’s strength and performance is so superior compared to other traditional building materials, that it is confidently guaranteed both for structural integrity and true flatness for a full 10 years. Likewise, with any product that is manufactured by Sing Core, the entire item is guaranteed.
Sing Core Installation & Execution
Installation and use of Sing Core is trouble-free and your contractors and mill works will thank you for inviting them to work with this revolutionary material. Being so lightweight makes it extremely easy to handle and transport, and it is easily finished or modified on-site with no special tools or skills as it is treated just like plywood, yet is lightweight and strong.
Made in the USA
Sing Core is made in the USA, proudly manufactured at our facility in McCleary, Washington.
Working with a new aerospace technology patented Sing Core has opened a wide range of applications as people use this revolutionary new material to solve their design and engineering challenges. Originally, the only solution to building large oversize doors that were lightweight, strong, true flat and could withstand the test of time without deterioration or strain on hardware or the structure; this was Sing Core’s pinnacle.Sing Core used in the housing industry yields fast and easy installation. For instance, one person can easily carry, manage and install an entire 4′ x 8′ x 2″ section of flooring due to an average weight of 20 to 60 pounds per 4-by-8 section (depending on the weight of the surface material) and can host any surface material, including any wood species, concrete, aluminum, ABS, FRP, stainless steel, Kevlar, etc… Imagine installing 1200 sq ft of wood flooring in less than ½ hour (see video below)… This is why Sing Core is the logical choice in portable flooring.
No need for framing with Sing Core stage flooring as the structure is built-in to the panel; all you need is pedestal (see right). Sing Core floors have even suspension and is pre-insulated providing sound deadening properties for a quiet floor. Extremely quick and easy to install and can be easily customized to fit your venue in touring circumstances. Sing Core floors are an excellent event surface to place on a concrete floor to mitigate transferred energy, like a shock-absorber.
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Floor applications where Sing Core shines include:
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Sing Core Subfloors
Can be used in food service environment, in tent festivals on sand-covered beaches, as a base for carpeting and can be installed on any nearly level surface area.
Sing Core Subfloors are used in dance applications, trade shows and exhibits, in houses of worship, etc.
Sing Core is a provider of highly advanced high performance wall panels for high-end applications and clients all over the world. These wall panel systems are unique in that they are lightweight, stronger than steel, pre-framed-and-insulated, for R value and sound deadening STC levels.
Our acoustic wall panels can be designed to meet your specifications to match your application and performance requirements as soundproof wall panels.
Increasingly engineers are discovering our Sing sound proof solutions, including our sound proof doors and portable acoustic commercial and home recording studio sound booths.
In many cases artisans transform the structurally sound panels into decorative wall panels that are an artistic representation of the designer’s vision for decorative wall paneling.
Sing wall panels can feature nearly any flat building material on its surface to accommodate a wide variety of uses, including metal wall panels and fiberglass wall panels.
Versatile applications include acoustic treatment, shower wall panels, sound dampening bathroom wall panels and kitchen wall panels.
Due to the unique attributes of Sing Core, our operable partitions, curtain walls and room dividers, really deliver results as they replace 1100 lbs. partitions with our 98 lbs. solution.
Sophisticated digital display and large A/V displays are often teamed up with Sing Core a 3d wall panel due to the characteristics of 3d wall panels that are true flat and this paneling for walls remains true flat for lifetimes.
See us at your favorite expo as your favorite exhibitor is probably using Sing wall panels in their trade show display.
10×12 ft 3″ thick warp-free 1/8″ oak 520 lbs
True flat technology is based on expertise in building any door that can be guaranteed true flat and stay flat. This composite science includes the proper proportions of Sing Core, aluminum and/or other materials and bonding agents based on your requirements or specifications. In this way each Sing door is a work of art.
One of the challenges in building any wood product of any dimension where the customer desires a perfectly flat surface over long spans is insurmountable in many circumstances.
This is the proven niche specialty service provided by Sing Core to the worlds most high-end, demanding, high-profile millworks and end users for years. Due to the unique properties of the patented Sing Core material, true flat designs can come to life and deliver superior satisfaction while carrying a 10 year structural guarantee.
AWI standards may allow for a certain amount of deflection over long spans, the patented Sing Core material far exceeds deflection allowances of other materials, due to its torsion box design while remaining true flat.
This is why the most prestigious millworks in the United States turn to Sing Core for their large, oversize doors, though they have the added benefits of having an end product that is:
Eco-friendlyAnd could be customized to include:
The True Flat Challenge
The true flat door is a challenge for architects, door manufacturer, millworks and general contractors, especially if the door is 1 inch thick (or more), over 8 feet wide and/or 16+ feet tall.
If you’re looking for the answer, you might Google search how to build a true flat door.
Oversize doors present the biggest challenge for true flatness, but they also present other issues that must be dealt with in high end homes and/or commercial applications in terms of weight and strength. Again, let’s see what Google has to say about lightweight high strength true flat?
The clear answer is Sing Core; a new invention of material that is playing a major role – not just in building large doors – but almost anything that requires (or desires) to be Eco-friendly, functional yet elegant for inside/outside a home or in building and construction that needs to be light, strong and sustainable
Aluminum composites are common in the aerospace industry, but are cost prohibitive and not user-friendly for mill working or broad earth-bound use. Sing Core is designed to be used in millworks and does not require any specially-trained labor or specialized equipment; treat it just like you would any other standard wood-based substrate material.
Sing Core’s true flat process utilizes vertical grain torsion-box/foam-core/aluminum composites to deliver the solution. Contact us for more information, and if you like, we will show you how to integrate this new technology into your operation.
Meeting the Highest Demands
We maintain the highest degrees of integrity when meeting the requirements of our clients, and their customers, assuring complete satisfaction. Most importantly, proper communication is the key. If you have certain expectations – and you let us know – our team can deliver the product that matches your specifications.
Simply by providing us with your dimensional requirements:
along with what your preference for visual presentation (exterior skin material) and performance expectations are, we can provide you with the solution to best suit your application.
How Do We Do It?
When you explain to us what your expectations are, we know how to create the product that meets or exceeds your expectations. For instance, if you require a 17 foot tall oak pivot door that is true flat.
First of all, if the pivot door were solid oak, it would fail the standards test due to the raw material. Natural wood will warp, twist and crack if left to itself. Not to mention being heavy in weight. The excessive weight is an added strain on the integrity of the structure and hardware, increasing maintenance costs over time.
Our designers will likely prescribe a solution that begins with a Sing Core base material in the center which is by itself perfectly flat. Adding oak wood staves is where the problem comes in; because natural wood is unstable and will compromise the overall structure. To combat this issue, our team may fuse the Sing Core material to aluminum to complete the substrate composite. Then, when the exterior oak faces are applied to the structure; like magic, the result is a lightweight, super strong solution that can be perfectly flat.
The resulting Sing Core lightweight solution does not compromise the structure or the hardware eliminating expensive repairs and/or maintenance.
That’s just one example. Some of the materials used in our true flat composite resolutions that battle the temperature and moisture weaknesses that accompany utilizing natural components (like wood) include
Our lifetime of experience dedicated to solving the challenges of architects, designers and craftsmen who serve the most prestigious clientele, especially in terms of sustainable, lightweight, super strong and true flat solutions that maintain structural integrity over many years, while retaining the beauty and elegance of natural wood (or any other desired external material).
Metal is used across many industries. Metal honeycomb composite is the leader in honeycomb cores used to create stronger and lighter metal panels as well as posts and beams using much less solid metal.
Sing core is the leading technology of metal honeycomb composite material that solves our future Eco-friendly energy solution by using Sing metal honeycomb composite at a fraction of the weight of solid steel, but is stronger, lightweight, and available in steel plate, steel beam and steel panels.
Tell the US Energy Department to do some home work and research the Sing solution. If you believe Sing Core will help us use less metal thanks 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.
1 Advantage: Precision true flat – within thousands of an inch – the majority of metal fabrication relies heavily on welding that causes the metal to deform. Sing metal uses structural glue, nuts and bolts instead of welding metal plates onto the steel frame which takes more labor, energy and end the product will not match the same precision as Sing Metal honeycomb panels.
2 Easy to fabricate and install – lightweight metal is safer to process, costs less to transport and uses less labor to install.
3 Less cost: Solid metal takes many times more metal than Sing Metal panels, posts and beams. It is expensive to transport, takes more energy to process and the most important thing is that Sing Metal is much less expensive than solid metal planks or sheets. If the strength, lightweight and Eco-friendly attributes are considered you may never go back to solid metal again.
Case study #2: If your seeking to improve your products with greater precision, true flat doors or panels, walls, floors, ceilings, RVs and/or boats then we’d like to teach you to Sing.
This is the latest technology to build true flat doors. If we are able to build a true flat door then you can believe that we could make true flat floors, ceilings, walls, etc… all lightweight, high strength, long lasting and endless benefits just by Singing with us.
Doors are a challenge for door manufacturers and mill works if the door is over 8 ft in length and less than in inch thick.
One of the Sing aluminum honeycomb panels are used as door substrate. It used in almost all major high end residential and commercial door applications due to the true flat characteristics. AWI standards for true flat include deflection of ¼ inch, which is unacceptable for Sing Core. We can minimize deflection to 1/8th or even 1/16th according to your pre-arranged specifications and application requirements to ensure satisfaction.
But if you have a door over 12 ft – even over 16 ft tall – and less than 1.5 inch in thickness and you are wishing to have the least deflection than you need to contact www.singcore.com to find the true flat solution which is use aluminum panel as substrate than add MDF or AB plywood for paint grade door or by cold or hot press to add finish veneer to build the most beautiful, strong, lightweight eco friendly door.
Doors made of Sing Aluminum honeycomb substrate do not need to acclimatize due to there being no moisture difference on either side of the door substrate.
Sing Aluminum honeycomb door substrate can be machined or drilled just like wood without retooling or damaging your blades. It is easy to glue with proper clean up procedure.
Large over size doors for high end building project require the true flatness. Patented Sing Core is the ultimate solution for high end mill work across the country.
Please click to see clients list of those who use Sing Core doors.
There’s a good chance that if you’ve struggled with all the potential problems that one might face with attempting to build a big door that will not warp, bend or twist, there are many challenges that you will face, especially if you don’t want your big door to be extremely heavy. Heavy door cause strain on the hardware and structure increasing the need for regular maintenance and upkeep.
Sing Core makes the largest, most dimensionally, stable large oversize, eco-friendly aluminum doors that are used by the most prestigious millworks and high-end users. Only Sing Aluminum oversized doors can be large, thin and extremely flat.
The beauty of large oversize Sing Aluminum doors is that they can be any height, any width, any thickness and can be manufactured in as little as three days.
The advantage of fusing the Sing Core material with aluminum, is that is nearly impervious to changing weather conditions and retains its true flatness and structural integrity over long spans and is the standout solution for big sliding doors, that will fail if not maintaining perfect straight structural integrity over a long service life.
But Sing Aluminum doors don’ t have to look like aluminum doors at all, because the aluminum can be part of the substrate which can host nearly any exterior material.
Some examples of exterior materials that we have made large oversize Sing Aluminum doors out of include:
… including ballistic materials for bulletproof applications. The possibilities are limited only to any available flat building material.
For the last few years, this emerging aerospace technology has been providing solutions to architects and designers that is top drawer, to say the least. The best-known, oldest, most reliable, high-end millworks in the United States depend on Sing Core to deliver the goods for them when it comes to large, oversize aluminum doors.
This technology is solving large oversize sliding door design solutions for Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and the Pope, especially when the application calls for extra strength, oversize or true flat… without compromising weight for strength.
Sing Core is the only door manufacturer that can create aluminum doors that are true flat over long spans, and will not warp, twist or experience extreme deflection under stress. And, thanks to the lightweight properties in comparison to other solid materials available, Sing Core aluminum doors are lightweight, causing less strain on the structure and hardware, even though the size may be very large.
These doors are 10 ft x 16 ft x 2 1/4″ thick w/marine-grade plywood exterior.
Years of working with the most demanding high-end clients has helped us understand unique requirement to guarantee true flatness of any Sing Core aluminum door. This does not mean that every oversized Sing Core aluminum door is guaranteed to be true flat under all conditions. But we can design the perfect Sing Core Aluminum Door for your specific requirements and guarantee it.
To achieve our true flat guarantee, all you have to do is to provide us with the size (up to 50 ft), the thickness, surface material desired and the intended use for your Sing aluminum door, and we will design for you a door that will meet and exceed your specifications. Take advantage of our expertise and years of serving the most high-end clients around the globe.
How to Coat your Sing Aluminum Door
Sing Aluminum Doors are so versatile, they can easily be painted, just like any other door. For successful painting use an etch primer, just like you wood any normal wood primer. The etch primer has an acid compound that etches itself into the aluminum, so no pre-sanding is necessary, follow-up with the same procedure for painting any other primed door. Of course, you could always add another surface layer of material to have any appearance you desire.
How to Cut, Rip or Trim your Sing Aluminum Door
Many of our clients order Sing Aluminum Door blanks by the truckload. These are basically unfinished, and the finishing, hanging and hardware is done by the client.
In the beginning, one might have concern over working with an aluminum door blank as opposed to a wood door blank in the wood shop that is customarily used for prepping the doors. The good news is that Sing Aluminum Doors can be cut, ripped or trimmed using standard woodworking equipment, There is not need to change saw blades or any other equipment in your standard door shop.
Our standard aluminum doors also offer superb sound deadening qualities and our EPS foam offers a 3.5 R factor per sq inch of thickness. Other R-factors available upon request per your specifications.
Door finishers work with Sing aluminum doors just like any other wood doors. No special handling or extra tools are necessary to accommodate the installation of your Sing Aluminum door.
Click here for more information on Sing Aluminum and other Metal Options
To add solid wood grain to the exterior of your Sing aluminum door requires bonding plywood or MDF in-between the aluminum and the wood grain material.
The most popular gift for university students, this year, is the standing computer desk.
This ergonomic upright computer desk allows the student to operate the computer while standing, enjoying the health benefits over operating a computer from a sitting position.
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL DESIGN
This unique design offers many options for the student or interior designer, including:
Due to the patented Sing Core material, when used as shelving, each shelf will withstand up to 180lbs of books (or whatever) with no deflection and the upright computer stand’s layout and design takes up little space in a student’s dorm room, while utilizing the shelves beneath to act as storage.
The Sing Upright Computer stand weighs-in at only 18lbs, so it is easy to move from here to there when necessary – and is so light weight, we offer free shipping to you (some assembly required).
People who sit at desks for long periods of time develop health issues similar to those of long-haul truck drivers. Metabolic and digestive systems fail to operate in optimal capacity, leading to weight gain and reduction of overall health, including back pain and higher likelihood of contracting diabetes.
Standing while working at the computer is increasingly the alternative to traditional sitting workstations increasing circulation, reducing blood pressure and promoting better health. Students who use the standing computer work station report greater creativity and less fatigue while working for long hours.
Also by simply using a standing workstation rather than sitting at a desk burns an extra 500 calories a day, just by getting up out of that chair and working at this space-saving alternative that takes up much less real estate than a sitting desk.
