How to get the room owner to clean the tables...

Tell him you'll clean the table you'll be playing if he gives you some free pool time. And then everytime you go there, go use a different table, so that you'll be cleaning all the tables regularly.
 
Speak with the owner in private

If you just played SHOW him/her your filthy bridge hand

Dirty tables will also stain pants/shorts at apprx thigh level---show the owner

As a last resort just, as Craig suggested, crapp on it.:eek:
 
Irish,

1- open your own pool hall, and run his out of business!

2- Bring in some chalk off or foam table cleaner, or a table brush and small vaccum.

3- Buy a table for your house and just play there.


i've had to deal with the same thing at all 3 pool halls in my town, and its crazy.

The first pool hall i frequented, usta clean the tables often and the ball sets too, but the cloth and rails havent been replaced in 3 yrs and you look like you just got done finger banging Smurfett after a couple games.

second place was the same way, untill the new owner took over, and replaced all the rails and cloth on all the 7ft tables.

3rd place had all diamond tables, but no ball cleaner and wouldnt clean the tables untill a few months ago when they got a ball cleaner and had all the tables re-done.

the second place where i frequent now, i usta go in for leagues and gloat about how I'd go outa town for a tournament, and the tables would be cleaned after someone was done using it, and you always got a clean set of billiard balls too. And the girl who did run it wouldnt be able to give me a answer lol. Or just say well we clean the tables and balls 2 or 3 times a week.
 
cueandcushion said:
Hate to say it but owners do get really burned out dealing with the day to day chores of running a room.
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C&C,
Well said. I've seen Mark Wilson's daily regimen, and it is rigorous. He is basically there 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. Each night he brushes each table (special English snooker table brushes), then vacuums them with a handheld vacuum (WITH a beater bar), then wipes them with lint-free, damp, micro-fiber cloth. Now THAT's dedication. It is difficult to get him to let me help (I think he doesn't trust my cleaning skills).
 
vagabond said:
I myself do the cleaning of the table.I go to the counter and ask for a towel made wet with hot water,wring it. I then wipe the table of all the baby powder ( Looks like a snow storm) left by the lunatic player.I then return the towel to the counter and thank them for letting me clean the table.
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Tap.Tap.Tap

I've done this more than once at the ph in town... also the only one for quite a ways around. I thought it might embarrass them but they just are not that concerned about clean tables.

The owner is a player but I guess dirty tables don't bother him. The balls are dirty and mis-matched. The set of Centennials they tried to give me had 3 replacement balls mixed in.

I know the owner is a good guy. Just different standards I guess. But 8 new Gold Crowns should be cared for like a new Corvette.

Next trip I"ll take my own can of Quick Clean and ask if I can use it.
 
vagabond said:
I myself do the cleaning of the table.I go to the counter and ask for a towel made wet with hot water,wring it. I then wipe the table of all the baby powder ( Looks like a snow storm) left by the lunatic player.I then return the towel to the counter and thank them for letting me clean the table.
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One of my good friends comented once on seeing the table covered in baby powder:

"DAMN! Looks like sombody gang raped the pilsbury dough boy!"

Made beer come out my nose.
 
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