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Newport Beach Billiard Install Here's a recent Olhausen Billiard table we re-installed for our Newport Beach, CA client. The client has an eight-foot-three-piece slate table set up in their two-car garage. Most garage floors are pretty unlevel but this one was really...
Best Billiard Bang For Your Buck
Lowest Price One Inch Slate Pool Tables... Here at DK Billiards, we pride ourselves on providing our clients with the highest quality and best-installed pool tables in the billiards marketplace. Take this clean-looking slate pool table by CL Bailey. The Addison...
What’s the Best Felt Color for Pool Tables
Making Your Pool Table Look Like New Again... Do you remember the day that you got your pool table? Remember how new and bright the felt looked? Or maybe you've just acquired a used pool table with dirty, worn-out felt. You'd be amazed what refelting your pool table...
Can You Install a Pool Table Upstairs?
Many people have asked us if we can install their pool tables upstairs. Absolutely. Assuming your room is up to building code standards of course. Some of the homes that we've installed pool tables in upstairs have had floors that have flexed a bit. I've noticed this...
How to Make a 1000 Pound Billiard Table Disappear?
Antique Pool Table Disassembly... Our Fullerton, CA client was relocating to WA and wanted to be sure his 1000-pound antique Brunswick pool table would make the trip safely. We built three heavy-duty crates to pack the pool table slate into for protection. The ball...
Buying a Used Pool Table? Part 1: Slate
What You Need to Know About Buying a Used Pool Table... So you've finally convinced your significant other that you can fit a pool table into your formal dining room, or some other space. Now the ball is in your court and you want to buy something that will perform...
The Ultimate Man Cave
The Ultimate Man Cave... This eight-foot Beach Mfg. pool table was the subject of a previous blog post called "How Good Pool Tables Turn Bad". Our clients had just moved from Texas to Coto de Caza, CA and the house came with this pool table. We disassembled the table...
Custom Pool Tables by Connelly
All Custom Pool Tables For Sale... We recently delivered and installed this eight-foot Winslow pool table made from solid 8/4 maple wood. The Winslow is part of Connelly Billiard Mfg's. plateau collection. All of the pool tables within this level feature three-piece,...
How to Plan the Perfect Game Room
Best Size Pool Table For Your Game Room... Here's a brand new Connelly Billiards table we just delivered and installed for our Coto de Caza, CA clients. The whole family visited our Orange County pool table showroom and picked out this seven-foot solid maple San...
Antique BBC Stays in the Family
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Billiard Table Experts... This antique Brunswick pool table has been installed here in this Garden Grove, CA home for 40 years. As a child, our client used to play on this old Brunswick whenever she'd visit Grandma and Grandpa's house. So,...
What’s the Best Size Pool Cue?
What Size Pool Cue Is Best? So many of our clients are unaware of which size pool cue stick is best to use. Well, the old rule of thumb states that you should have at least 57-58 inches of cue stick space between the walls and the nose of the pool table cushion. The...
How to Safely Move Your Pool Table
How to Handle a Three-Piece Slate Pool Table... When our Fullerton, CA clients decided on changing out their existing flooring in the entire house, they knew that their eight-foot slate pool table would need to be handled carefully. If you're ever in a situation like...
The Sun’s Damaging Effects
Tips For Keeping Your Felt From Fading... We recently refelted this eight-foot Olhausen pool table from camel to Dk. Green. It had only been about five years since the Lake Forest, CA residents had their pool table recovered last. Unfortunately, the room that this...
Out of Round Balls vs. Unlevel Pool Table
OC's Pool Table Experts to the Rescue... Have you ever rolled a ball slowly from side to side on your pool table? Does the ball drift towards the center of the playfield? If the pool table in question is a slate pool table then one of two things are possible. The...
Billiard Table Anatomy 101
Best American Made Pool Table... When you analyze the construction deficiencies and attributes of an Olhausen pool table versus a Connelly pool table, you'll have to start from the inside out. You've all probably heard the old saying about kicking the tires and...
San Clemente Custom San Carlos Install
Southern California Pool Table Experts... When most people are researching quality American-made pool tables for sale, Connelly Billiards is probably not the first name to come to mind. Most consumers just assume Brunswick Billiards is the only/best pool table brand...
When Your Home Ceases Being Your Castle
Billiard Table Service Orange County... Slate pool tables are delicate and need to be handled very carefully. Take this full-size Brunswick pool table we recently disassembled for our Anaheim Hills, CA client. The client was in the midst of a major remodel and was...
It’s Christmas In Corona
So. Cal. Pool Table Experts... My muscles are still sore two days after delivering this tournament-size pool table to my client's upstairs bonus room. My Corona, CA client was as happy as a kid on Christmas when my crew and I arrived on Friday to deliver and install...