Pool Table Moving
Apart at one address, level at the next.
A move starts with the cloth. It is lifted rather than cut wherever it is sound enough to reuse, the rails come off, and the slate sections are carried out flat. Rails and legs travel wrapped; the slate travels on edge and secured, because a section that shifts in transit is a section that chips at the corner.
At the new address the process runs backwards, with the levelling done last and not hurried. If the new room is on a different floor of the building, or the truck has to park down the street, that is worth telling us at the quote stage rather than on the day.
What actually changes the price
Five things move a moving quote up or down. Distance is only one of them.
- Table size, and whether the slate is one piece or three. One piece beds are the constraint on stairs.
- The route at both ends: stair turns, doorway widths, lifts, and gates or bollards between the door and the truck.
- How far the table has to be carried before it reaches the vehicle, which in a condo or a townhome complex is often the longest part of the job.
- Whether the table needs new cloth while it is apart, which is cheaper to do during a move than as a separate visit later.
- Timing, if a building only allows loading in certain hours or the lift has to be booked.
Tell us what you know and estimate the rest; a photo of the table and of the worst point on the route is worth more than a paragraph of description.
Before the crew leaves
Levelling is part of the job, not an extra. The bed is checked across the seams and at each pocket before the tools are packed away, and the crew will not leave a table that rolls off.
Work is usually booked into a morning or an early afternoon window, and the window is confirmed when the quote is accepted. Tell us if parking, a gate code or a building manager needs arranging first.