Pool Table Moves
Disassembly, transport and a levelled rebuild, planned around the access at both buildings.
Los Angeles, CA
Pool table relocation, installation and refelting across Los Angeles and the Valley.
In this city, the building decides the job
A slate table comes apart into a frame, a bed in sections and a set of rails, and every one of those pieces has to travel a route someone else designed. In Los Angeles that route is usually the hard part of the work. A managed building wants the lift booked and a certificate of insurance filed before anyone touches a hand truck. A hillside house has a public flight of steps between the street and the front door and nowhere to put a truck at either end. A courtyard apartment has one narrow gate that everything must pass through sideways.
None of this is unusual and none of it is a problem when it is known in advance. It is a problem at nine in the morning with a crew standing in the street, which is why the quote asks about the building before it asks about anything else.
Once the table is in the room, the older housing stock has the last word. Floors in houses that have been standing for the best part of a century have settled, and settled floors are read with shims rather than argued with.
Pick the job
Relocation if the table is changing address, installation if it is staying put, refelting if the cloth has had enough.
Pool Table Installation
Assembly, shimming and cloth for a table that is already in the room or arriving from a showroom.
Pool Table Recovering and Refelting
Old cloth off the bed and rails, new cloth fitted, and the slate inspected while it is uncovered.
Work either side of the obvious three
- Moving a table within a building, including floor to floor where a lift allows it.
- Taking a table down to sections for a long distance carrier and leaving it packed.
- Clearing a table out for flooring or painting, with a return visit to set it back up.
- Collecting from a showroom, a storage unit or a private sale and installing at your address.
- Re-levelling a table that has gone off without stripping cloth that is still good.
- Replacing cushion rubber while the rails are off for refelting.
Quoting across the basin
Three questions set the price. What is the table: size, and one piece slate or three. What is the access: stairs, turns, gates, lifts, loading rules and the distance from the door to wherever a vehicle can legally stand. What is the room: where the table goes and what the floor is doing under it.
Answer those and a written quote comes back that holds on the day. Leave them vague and every estimate is provisional, which serves nobody well.
If a building's rules or a staircase mean the job cannot be done the way you are picturing it, we would rather tell you at the quote and discuss the alternative than discover it with the slate already on the landing.
Areas covered
Los Angeles and the surrounding cities, across the Valley, the Westside, the South Bay and the San Gabriel Valley. Put the service address on the request and coverage is confirmed with the quote.
- Los Angeles, CA
- Pasadena, CA
- Glendale, CA
- Burbank, CA
- Sherman Oaks, CA
- Woodland Hills, CA
- Santa Monica, CA
- Culver City, CA
- El Segundo, CA
- Torrance, CA
- Long Beach, CA
- Whittier, CA
- Inglewood, CA
- Alhambra, CA
Questions that come up across the basin
My building wants a certificate of insurance. Is that a problem?
No, but it needs lead time. Managed buildings usually want the certificate on file and the lift reserved before the day, and some only permit loading in set hours. Tell us the building's requirements when you ask for the quote and the schedule is built around them.
There is no parking outside and a flight of public steps. Can it still be done?
Usually, and it is worth being precise about it. The distance from the door to the nearest place a vehicle can legally stand is part of the work, and so is the number of steps and their turns. Hillside addresses are ordinary here; they just need to be quoted as what they are.
The house is old and the floor slopes. Does that rule out a table?
It rarely does. Floors in houses that have stood for decades have settled, and settlement is dealt with by shimming under the legs and, where a seam needs it, between frame and slate. The bed is read again after each change until nothing rolls on its own.
Will the sun ruin my cloth?
Direct afternoon sun through large glass will fade cloth over time, and it fades unevenly because only part of the table is in the beam. It does not affect play, only appearance. If the table's position is still open, keeping it out of the direct beam is the simplest fix.
Can you move a table from one unit to another in the same building?
Yes, and it is often simpler than a move across town because there is no drive. The table still comes fully apart: slate does not travel assembled, even down a corridor. Lift access and any building rules about moves still apply.
What information makes the quote accurate?
The table size and whether the slate is one piece or three, the access at both addresses, and anything the building requires. Photographs of the table and of the narrowest point on the route are the fastest way to a number that holds.