Used table installation

Used Pool Table Installation

A table you bought used or inherited, set up in your room with the slate seamed, the felt re-installed and the top leveled.

Call (845) 597-5532Ask Steve

A used table has already come apart once

Somewhere along the way someone took this table down and loaded it onto a truck, and every step of that shows up later. The old seams were sealed once and have since been broken. The cloth may be worn thin where players lean, and bumpers that were lively ten years ago can have gone hard. None of it is obvious in a classified ad photo, and most of it only matters once the table is standing in your room.

There is one thing the shop does not do: Steve does not buy used tables. Because of where the market value of used tables sits, Steve's Pool Tables Plus in Newburgh passes on them. What he does is take the table you found, or the one that came with the house, and make it play properly.

The new-table setup, with the felt put back on

A used table gets the same setup as a new one. Steve installs the table, assembles the slate and seals the seams, re-installs the felt and levels the top. The sequence matters for the same reason it does on a new table: the frame is built where it will stand, the slate goes on and is seamed as one surface, and the cloth is stretched over a surface that is already true.

Leveling is where a used table most often disappoints, because old frames carry old wear. Steve checks it across the whole top and corrects it on your floor, in the room where it will actually be played.

If the felt or bumpers turn out too far gone, new felt and bumper replacement is an additional charge, and only if it is needed. You can ask for that quote ahead of time through the recovery quote form, so the day of the install holds no surprises.

Old cloth and tired bumpers tell on the table

Re-installing felt puts back what the table came with, and that is only as good as the cloth was. Worn felt slows the ball unevenly and shows every path players have walked across it. Hard bumpers send a ball off a rail with less life than a shot deserves. A perfectly level table can still feel dead for those two reasons alone.

Once the slate is exposed during an install, the table is already apart, which is the natural moment to decide on new felt. Call Steve at (845) 597-5532 with the table's size and condition and he can say honestly whether the cloth is worth keeping.

A pool table set up in a customer's room under a row of green lamps.

A pool table set up in a customer's room under a row of green lamps.

Steve installs used pool tables out of Newburgh, and he does not buy them. Call (845) 597-5532 with the size and condition of yours.

If the felt needs to go, price it before the install

Ask for a recovery quote and name the table size, and pick your colors from the felt colors. Make sure the room fits the table on the room size chart. A table that is brand new from the Brunswick line goes through the new table installation instead, and a table that has to wait for the room is better kept in storage. Steve answers the phone himself at (845) 597-5532.