Processes
How each moulding route actually works — silicone pouring, polyurethane pouring, pattern making, and the full route from bench to bed.
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Eight applications, one workshop, one pattern room.
The tooling we build gets used across eight applications. The silicone and polyurethane grades vary, but the same engineering bench, pattern room and quality regime sit behind all of them.
How we think about it
Different applications, same four questions underneath.
The application changes — precast wall panel, GRC cornice, cast-stone keystone, decorative planter. The underlying questions don't. What are you casting into it, how many pours across the tool's life, how is the tool going to be handled between pours, and what does the finished piece have to look like at viewing distance.
The rest of this page walks through the eight applications we cover, with a note on what makes each one distinctive at the tooling bench.
The eight
Where TCI Construction tooling gets used.
01
Precast concrete panels
Formliners and unit moulds for architectural and structural precast — wall panels, cladding, cills and copings.
02
GRC cladding
Thin-shell silicone tooling for glass-reinforced concrete cornices, spandrels, feature panels and lightweight façade elements.
03
Cast stone
Sharp-edged silicone tooling for dressed-stone workshops — keystones, cills, quoins, string courses, finials.
04
Heritage restoration
One-off silicone moulds for rebuilding lost historic detail from a single surviving section. Cornices, finials, tracery, ornament.
05
Landscape & street furniture
Repeat-line tooling for bench ends, bollards, planters, paving relief and public-realm bespoke pieces.
06
Decorative concrete
Studio-scale decorative tooling — small planters, garden ornament, feature vessels, retail props.
07
Architectural cladding
Bespoke architect-driven reliefs for façade panels, from concept-stage advice through matched production sets.
08
Master patterns
Not an end application in itself, but the foundation of all the above. Machined, sculpted or scanned patterns from which the moulds are built.
Why one workshop
The same bench serves all of them.
The specific silicone grade, the specific polyurethane, the specific pattern approach — those vary widely between applications. But the engineering skill of specifying the right combination for each job is the same skill, and the workshop that builds the tool is the same workshop.
That's why one team can serve a precast yard, a heritage contractor and a garden decorative studio without diluting the depth on any of them. What differs between applications is the conversation, not the underlying capability.
At a glance
The idea in a picture.
Planning liners across a wall
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Get in touch
Send us a photograph of the panel or the elevation.
One photograph tells us what surface you're chasing, and one line about the mix tells us what silicone or polyurethane will survive it.
Real people, a real workshop
You deal with the people who make it.
No call centre and no middlemen. When you contact TCI Construction, you speak to the team who design, build and check your mould.
- A real Warwickshire workshopUnit 15, Waterloo Park, Bidford-on-Avon, Alcester B50 4JG.
- Real people on the phoneCall the team on 01789 224228, Monday to Friday.
- The same team on every jobDesign, production and aftercare come from the people you see here.
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