A standard catalogue liner won't fit your bed
Catalogue rolls come in fixed widths. If your bed is bigger, you're stuck with a visible seam. We build the formliner to your dimension in one piece — or spliced where you tell us.
Textures · Standard relief
Textured formliners for precast, without the standard-catalogue compromise.
Ribbed, striated, board-mark, rope, ashlar — the textures precast producers reach for most, made to your bed dimension with the splice on the panel joint rather than the middle of the face.
When it fits
When a textured formliner is the right route.
You need the same texture across multiple beds
A programme running on parallel beds needs matched tooling. Sequential catalogue rolls are rarely a match; a built-to-order set is.
The relief has to be specified, not chosen off a page
Rib pitch, rib depth, rope diameter, board width — we make them what your architect specified, not what a supplier's stock happened to be.
You want the tool as a working asset
A stock roll is a consumable. A properly built formliner is an asset that runs a real programme and gets replaced against its own drawing when it retires.
The choice
How a textured formliner is built.
The pattern is machined from a tooling board for standard relief textures — a ribbed pattern, a board-mark pattern, a rope pattern. That gives us a sharp, repeatable master. We then pour polyurethane or silicone against it. For ordinary rib and board relief, polyurethane is the workhorse. For rope, for fine striation, or for anything with even a mild undercut, silicone.
Splice positions are drawn onto the layout before we pour. Ribbed and striated textures can splice cleanly if the rib registers across the joint; rope and organic patterns need the splice tucked into a panel joint so the pattern break disappears.
The formliner comes with a face-down handling frame. Precast yards get to lift and reposition it without the polyurethane dragging on the bed.
What we need
To quote this properly.
Which texture you're specifying
Rib (pitch and depth), board-mark (width, orientation), rope (diameter and pitch), striation (spacing).
Bed dimension and panel layout
So we can set splices at the right positions.
The mix
Determines whether polyurethane or silicone, and which grade.
Rough pour count
So we can spec the material grade for the working life you need.
The honest bit
Textured formliners — what to expect.
Polyurethane textured formliners on plain rib or board-mark reliably run well into the hundreds of pours if handled sensibly. Silicone on finer relief is often shorter-lived but produces a cleaner face — the choice is a texture decision, not a durability one.
A splice always leaves a small vertical line. On a well-designed formliner it falls on a panel joint and disappears. On a poorly-planned one it falls mid-face and reads forever. We tell you where the splice will land before we pour so you can confirm.
Drill down
2 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.
At a glance
The idea in a picture.
Where the formliner sits
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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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