Pool tables
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Anyone else here have a pool table?
When we purchased our house, a pool table was one of the first things we purchased to put in the house.
We loved the table and enjoyed the heck out of it.
The kids came and life took its course, and the table ended up being sold.
Now that the kids are a bit older and other changes, we decided we wanted one again.
We have a larger room off our kitchen that’s intended as a “formal living room”, but it was the original pool table room. It has also been a play room, office, my 2ch room and most recently, a dining room.
After our kitchen remodel and expansion last year, we realized that we literally didn’t use the “dining room” a single time, as most people just congregate around the 11’ island in the new kitchen at this point.
We decided on a 8’ Brunswick Glenwood table, with tapered legs and the black/coffee finish with “regatta blue” felt.
The table is larger than the original 7’ table we had and my wife wanted the ping pong topper as well, so I started looking at the system weight…
The table is about 700lbs, the topper is another 140lbs (I have no idea how the topper is so damn heavy!)
With a system weight of about 840lbs I decided to call a friend that’s an architect. My concern, my house was built with 2x8 joists, and the room has about a 12’ span.
My friend agreed, we needed more support.
The issue, my 2ch room is directly below the future pool table room…
Long story short, I had to rip out the 3’ish year old ceiling in the 2ch room to sister the joists.
Naturally, the nearly 50 year old 2x8’s are also undersized…
I had to rip down all the new 2x8’s to match the existing joist it was being sistered to, then it was glued and used the framing nailer to send roughly 1 million nails into each joist.
Joists are now all sistered and re-did all the blocking. The floor is super solid now!
Now I’m anxiously awaiting the calm from the installer…
…
When we purchased our house, a pool table was one of the first things we purchased to put in the house.
We loved the table and enjoyed the heck out of it.
The kids came and life took its course, and the table ended up being sold.
Now that the kids are a bit older and other changes, we decided we wanted one again.
We have a larger room off our kitchen that’s intended as a “formal living room”, but it was the original pool table room. It has also been a play room, office, my 2ch room and most recently, a dining room.
After our kitchen remodel and expansion last year, we realized that we literally didn’t use the “dining room” a single time, as most people just congregate around the 11’ island in the new kitchen at this point.
We decided on a 8’ Brunswick Glenwood table, with tapered legs and the black/coffee finish with “regatta blue” felt.
The table is larger than the original 7’ table we had and my wife wanted the ping pong topper as well, so I started looking at the system weight…
The table is about 700lbs, the topper is another 140lbs (I have no idea how the topper is so damn heavy!)
With a system weight of about 840lbs I decided to call a friend that’s an architect. My concern, my house was built with 2x8 joists, and the room has about a 12’ span.
My friend agreed, we needed more support.
The issue, my 2ch room is directly below the future pool table room…
Long story short, I had to rip out the 3’ish year old ceiling in the 2ch room to sister the joists.
Naturally, the nearly 50 year old 2x8’s are also undersized…
I had to rip down all the new 2x8’s to match the existing joist it was being sistered to, then it was glued and used the framing nailer to send roughly 1 million nails into each joist.
Joists are now all sistered and re-did all the blocking. The floor is super solid now!
Now I’m anxiously awaiting the calm from the installer…
…
Comments
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I would have had a table years ago if our house had the room.
Congrats!! -
Nice Pool Table.
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Yeah, a pool table is pretty large real estate commitment.
It's why we ended up selling our first one when the kids were really little. It took up a lot of room that could have been used for the kids to play and our available time to play as parents of young kids was pretty minimal.
Now that the kids are bigger and we discussed that the only time that room has been consistently used, was when it had a pool table in it, and my wife knew I missed having it.
Can't wait to have one back in the house! -
When we put the "game room" addition on our old farmhouse the contractor rightly stated we better reinforce the floor if a table was in the plan...glad he did as we wound up with a Brunswick 9' table with 1" slate bed...talk about heavy! A perk with the sturdy floor is have yet to experience a skip on the turntable when the kids are bouncing around around.
Over the years interest in shooting pool waned as nobody wanted to play me
Anyhow, sold it and replaced with a 18' shuffleboard that levels out the playing field I guess.
Enjoy your table!
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We had one for many years and I just lost interest in it as the years went by. Shortly after I got rid of it I replaced it with another space hog; a pair of khorns. The k's didn't last near as long as the pool table did. Now I have a full size centipedes-millipedes game that I do play occasionally.
