Why should I hire a Pool Table Mover instead of a Mover that specializes in heavy things?
Unless you’ve hired a Pool Table Mover in the past, the majority of the public does not know that there’s such a thing as a Pool Table Moving Company. A pool table is more than just a heavy piece of furniture. It takes years of experience to properly breakdown, move, and install a pool table.
The most important part of retaining the value of your pool table is not only the original installation of the table, but the proper breakdown, move, and reassembly of your table.
Each individual pocket and rail must be removed and properly labeled. The labels ensure the rails and pockets go back onto the table exactly as they were installed.
Once the rails are removed, there should be about 500 staples that have to be individually and carefully removed to take the felt off the table. The slate screws are then removed, detaching the slate from the frame. Typically the slate will be in three pieces, sealed together at its seams with beeswax.
With the slate removed, the legs can now be taken off (and labeled) or left on, depending on your storage/moving space needs. The frame will almost always be left in one piece, as perfectly lined reassembly of the frame is almost impossible.
If you are moving a long distance, it would be ideal for the Moving Company that is moving the rest of your home to also move your pool table in its newly disassembled state. Any Professional Moving Companies that we have worked with have always required that the slate is crated. Slate may be extremely heavy, but it is also extremely fragile. Most movers will not take on the liability of moving anything this fragile in an unprotected state.
To ensure safety of the slate and the movers, we will build individual custom crates around each piece of your pool table slate. This way it can be easily and safely transported by your movers to your new location. We’ve been in this business for 12 years, and we have never witnessed any damage to slate that has been properly crated, no matter how far the move. The construction of the crates should also be in a manner that they can be kept and reused in future moves.
At this point the entire table is ready for moving. A Professional Moving Company can now wrap your table as they would any other item in your home.
If you are not moving a long distance, such as out of state, we will gladly move your table in our enclosed box trailer. The slate will not have to be crated. Our trailer is custom crafted to safely transport every part of your pool table as well as your accessories.
When your table reaches its new location, it can now be easily stored or immediately reassembled. Reassembly by the original pool table movers, or by a different pool table mover, should now be easily accomplished thanks to the proper markings during the previous breakdown.
In the end, pool is a game of precision. Playing on a table that is not properly installed, broken down, moved, and reassembled with extremely precise leveling can be very frustrating for the player.
