The line runs on repeat
A bench end that ships in dozens a year across multiple sites. The tool has to be built for the pour count, not for the first order alone.
Landscape · Street furniture
Tooling for bench ends, bollards and public-realm bespoke.
Silicone and polyurethane moulds for bench ends, bollards, planters, paving relief and bespoke public-realm concrete pieces. Built for landscape yards that mix repeat lines with occasional civic bespoke.
When it fits
Where a landscape mould earns its cost.
The civic piece is one-off but visible
A bespoke bollard for a public realm scheme, a paving relief for a plaza. High-visibility, low-quantity. Silicone gets you the finish.
The mix is heavy for the mould
Some landscape pieces use fibre-reinforced mixes, or thick pours with vibration. The mould has to be spec'd for the loading.
The piece will be handled outdoors and hosed off
Rougher handling than an architectural cladding tool, closer to structural precast. Material spec reflects it.
The choice
How we spec landscape tooling.
Polyurethane is often the workhorse for landscape lines — bench ends, bollards, standard planter shapes. The relief is usually straightforward, the pour count is high, and polyurethane's tougher wearing profile is what matters.
Silicone comes in for pieces with detail — a moulded logo on a bollard, a fine relief on a paving unit, a decorative feature planter. Sometimes as a silicone insert sitting inside a polyurethane surround.
For paving relief specifically, we build the mould as a shallow tray with the relief cast into the base. The mould is designed to be filled, screeded, stripped and cleaned quickly, because a paving programme runs a lot of pieces through the same tool.
What we need
To quote this properly.
Drawings of the piece
General arrangement, elevation, and any details for the relief or moulded features.
Annual programme
Per-line quantity and any peaks for civic delivery dates.
Concrete mix
Fibre-reinforced, plain, coloured. Affects mould life.
How you strip the piece
Vacuum lift, crane, manual. Determines split lines.
The honest bit
Landscape tooling is a compromise between two worlds.
Landscape yards often want a mould that survives yard handling like a structural precast tool and captures detail like an architectural cladding tool. That's not usually possible in one material. We'll either compromise the pour count to give you the finish, or compromise the finish to give you the pour count. Whichever we do, we'll say so up front.
For civic pieces, first-off approval usually involves the landscape architect. We'd rather come to that meeting than have you find out at first pour that a decorative feature reads differently at scale than it did on the drawing.
Paving programmes are hard on tools. The strip cycle is fast, the mould gets hosed constantly, and demoulding is sometimes rougher than we'd like. We'll spec accordingly, and we'll tell you to order the replacement about two thirds of the way through the projected life.
Drill down
3 variants of this service.
Each one has its own page with the detail we'd normally cover on the first call.
Related
Where this fits in the wider system.
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.
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