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In doing the move, first consider this: you might think it’s as simple as moving a heavy sofa or a dining table.

You may want to move it to change the carpet under it, or you just had a new room renovated as your game room, or perhaps you plan to buy the neighbor’s unused pool table.

The pool table is indeed a heavy piece of furniture, hovering at around 400 kilograms depending on the make you can find a few Arnold Schwarzeneggers to help you move it to the next room, or get it from your neighbor just a block away, or just reposition it to another area in the same room.

But it’s not that simple.

The best way to move a pool table is not to move it at all if the one who will move it will be yourself and your neighbor with the penchant for weight lifting.

You can try of course. But you are sure to find the character of your pool table changed. And your favorite shooting stance doesn’t work anymore. That’s because things like the true horizontal leveling that it once had is now off. Moving the table body may have twisted the slate and the rails a bit. And for sure, the makers of the table will void its warranty if you did.

You see, your pool table had been delivered and installed in your room by trained pool technicians. It didn’t arrive in your room in one piece. It came in parts and assembled and adjusted to give you a pool table that allowed you to perform in top shape. It usually takes a couple of hours to assemble and balance your pool table before you can use it.

And once that is done, the pool table is meant to remain stationary where it is for as long as possible. Moving it requires the same disassembly, reassembly and calibration in the final destination. And you need trained pool table techies to do the job.

That is why you see billiard pool movers advertised on the net and elsewhere. It’s a small business on its own. Moving the pool table the right way using professionals will cost upwards of $500 depending on location and where it is headed. But can’t you do it between rooms? Yes you can. But you have to do it the right way. You can spend for it, or learn how.

Disassembling the pool table is the easiest part. It’s the reassembling that requires some learning and even experience. Here are a couple of problems you are sure to encounter.

1. The slate is quite heavy and vulnerable to damage due to mishandling. It doesn’t have any part you can grip with when carrying so the likelihood of damage is there. Bear in mind that the slate comes in 3 parts. Damaging one part just may require replacing all of it – quite expensively.
2. The cloth covering is likewise easy to tear. And the older the table is, or the more heavily used, the more fragile the cloth can be. You may need to change the cloth altogether.

Okay, so you say the trouble isn’t worth it. But is there a cheaper way to move it than contacting those pool table movers. Good thing there is. You can spend half as much on professional moving service by getting that pool table some moving dollies.

These are akin to lift jacks that you position under the pool table. You just roll the dolly under it, jack it up, and roll the dolly together with the pool table to its new location. There are a number of dolly brands out there meant to move pool tables in taverns and billiard game centers. It’s quite easy to use by one person. But you still need to properly level off the table in its new location. So there you are, you can either get professional help or get the proper apparatus to move the billiard table.

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