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Just wondering about installing a pool table in a garage in Canada, any one have success with this and what did you do to heat the garage. Is it worth even trying? Open to suggestions and feedback from success stories.
Installing a Pool Table in a Garage, Help.
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Not sure I've ever heard of someone surviving such an undertaking.
However, I can't see any reason why it's not possible, people down here have pool tables outside with no ill effects other than premature wear and service. If your car can handle it in there, and of course you, I'd think a table would be just fine.
However, I can't see any reason why it's not possible, people down here have pool tables outside with no ill effects other than premature wear and service. If your car can handle it in there, and of course you, I'd think a table would be just fine.
I have a pool table in a garage in Iowa. It is an old brunswick sportsman. I heat with wood, and other than the floor shifting, it isn't in the greatest of shape, I have had no issues what so ever since I replaced my roof. 
We did superglue the seams when we set it up, and I think that helps a great deal. I know it probably doesn't get as cold here as it does there, we see a few nights a year at the -20deg F. I light the stove every friday night about 7 and start playing around 9.
We did superglue the seams when we set it up, and I think that helps a great deal. I know it probably doesn't get as cold here as it does there, we see a few nights a year at the -20deg F. I light the stove every friday night about 7 and start playing around 9.
I'm a garage table survivor, of course, it's just a bar table and I'm convinced that thing could withstand a nuclear blast. During the winter when the weather starts to change I'll seal up the garage and plug in a small space heater. I've never seen the temp drop below 55. When I go out to play I'll start up a small propane heater (tank outside), go in get my cue and something to drink, give it a couple of minutes and head out to the garage. This is pretty comfortable temp wise. In the summer I'll use a swamp cooler and a fan and the temp is usually about 80 ish. This is a cinder block garage with a concrete floor. light electric, no heat, pretty much just a shell. We have never parked a car in there. I installed better lighting and use a home depot shop light for the table light, put in a TV, ran the cable out there and and a we have a fridge and freezer out there. It ain't much, but it gives me a much needed place to hide from the girls whenever I need to. There's nothing like playing in your garage and drinking beer on a nice summer night until 3 or 4 in the morning. I love it.
...or playing in your boxers, a t-shirt and flip-flops now that's living...
...or playing in your boxers, a t-shirt and flip-flops now that's living...
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A good friend has a bar box in his detached garage in Saskatoon. We play there year-round. It gets a bit cool when we open the doors to clear out the cigarette smoke but other than that no issues. He has a small gas-fired furnace hanging from the ceiling.
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Dave
I ran 3/4" copper pipe from the boiler in main house, to the garage with baseboard heat(and back, with a return line). You can make the water flow with a small pump, and insulate/bury the line outside so it doesn't freeze.
Or instead of using the house boiler, you can use a small hot water heater and be independent from the main house heat. Works for me, good luck!
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Reviving this thread
Hey folks,
I'm bring this thread back to see if I can get some additional feedback. I am thinking of putting a table in an unheated building at my cottage (a couple hours north of Toronto). Temperature will drop down to -30 C in the winter.
Wonder if anyone has additional info on the effects on a pool table. Was thinking of putting in either a 7' Diamond pro-am or a 7' Valley (I can't fit anything bigger). But I certainly don't want to put in a Diamond and have it destroyed next winter.
Thanks.
Hey folks,
I'm bring this thread back to see if I can get some additional feedback. I am thinking of putting a table in an unheated building at my cottage (a couple hours north of Toronto). Temperature will drop down to -30 C in the winter.
Wonder if anyone has additional info on the effects on a pool table. Was thinking of putting in either a 7' Diamond pro-am or a 7' Valley (I can't fit anything bigger). But I certainly don't want to put in a Diamond and have it destroyed next winter.
Thanks.
Quick solution and not to expensive. A/C unit with a heat pump built in.
In floor heat
I have a 9 footer in my 28'x36' garage that has in floor heat. If your going to be there a while think about it, its not that hard to lay some rebar, string the hose and pour a 4" cap on it.
If that's to much then put an electric or propane heater in there.
I have a 9 footer in my 28'x36' garage that has in floor heat. If your going to be there a while think about it, its not that hard to lay some rebar, string the hose and pour a 4" cap on it.
If that's to much then put an electric or propane heater in there.
Here is my input, along with many others..Very old thread, lots of good info!
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=5007463&postcount=863
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Sorry, my question wasn't clear. The table is going in an unbeaten building at my cottage, and I don't go there much in the winter. It would be pretty expensive to heat it in the winter even if I installed heating.
So I'm trying to figure out if what happens if I let a tale sit in sub-zero temps for the winter
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Your question was clear but unfortunately. My suggestion was for the op. I don't always check the date on threads and assume that they are current. Not 4 years old.
I think I'd go with the Valley. The older ones seem to be pretty much bullet proof. If there's any electric in there maybe put in a small space heater
and leave it on during the cold months and seal up the room as best you can. I don't know what kind of damage that extreme cold can do to the table,
but personally I'd rather not find out. A small space heater would probably keep the temp around 40 or so in there, so it probably wouldn't really heat
the room but it would keep things from freezing, and I'd keep the table covered with a good heavy cover, maybe a couple of moving blankets.
If you can keep the temp as close to something consistent on the plus side it would probably be better for the table. It would keep any wood
from contracting and expanding too much with a widely changing temp
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Got it. Thanks.