Help with table size
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Your room is wide enough for an 8' table but not long enough. Unless you want to have a 48" cue laying around for shots on both end rails. You really need about two more feet in length (17') to have a long enough room for an eight footer. It's even very tight for a 7' table.
I agree. You should have 17.5 for a 7' table. 17 will work though. Johnnyt
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Playing area (cushion nose to cushion nose) on a bar box is 39"x78" (slightly larger than a standard 7ft home table), on an 8ft standard it is 44"x88". For a bar box... A 15' room = 180" - 78", leaves 102" divided by 2 = 51" FROM THE NOSE OF THE CUSHION on each end of the table. With a standard 58" cue, you couldn't even pull the stick straight back to have the tip end at the cushion nose.
If you have the table angled in the room, you could improve part of that. I suggest you cut some sheet plastic to the dimensions of a bar box (play area and/or table case), then lay it out in the room & take some measuements to find out what you'd be up against in clearance from the corners to the wall.
If you have the table angled in the room, you could improve part of that. I suggest you cut some sheet plastic to the dimensions of a bar box (play area and/or table case), then lay it out in the room & take some measuements to find out what you'd be up against in clearance from the corners to the wall.
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Yes! Thanks, Jay. Had a brain cramp.
Don't do it. The table won't fit. You're gonna be a pissed off pool player everytime you have a shot at either side of the table.
Move, take over the garage (if its a two car), or sub out and put an I beam in to gain the room length needed, otherwise forget it.
A 15' x 15' room is too small for four-sided use of any normal-sized table -- even a 7-footer -- using normal-sized cue sticks.
But if you're willing to use the table for personal practice, rather than for playing standard games with other people, here's what you could do.
Buy a 9-foot table. That's the size that will best develop your game.
Put the table in the center of the room from side to side. 15' is wide enough for normal use of both sides of a 9-foot table. But put one short-rail end of the table up against (or close to) one of the walls.
Sounds crazy, but it will allow you normal use of three sides of a 9-foot table for practicing any and all shots. And you might even invent some interesting games for such a table placement.
But if you're willing to use the table for personal practice, rather than for playing standard games with other people, here's what you could do.
Buy a 9-foot table. That's the size that will best develop your game.
Put the table in the center of the room from side to side. 15' is wide enough for normal use of both sides of a 9-foot table. But put one short-rail end of the table up against (or close to) one of the walls.
Sounds crazy, but it will allow you normal use of three sides of a 9-foot table for practicing any and all shots. And you might even invent some interesting games for such a table placement.