Pool Table Directly on Concrete Floor
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yes it can chip the balls. also, be careful where you put your stick. if it falls over onto a concrete floor...you can kiss it goodbye.
blueridge said:
Yep it will, but the type of customer base your going after may not really care or notice, plus if the concrete has a nice smooth finish that will help minimize the problem. In a real pool room, it won't work. Also you'll lose allot of cue tips, unless you utilize the slip on type and when a cue stick falls on a hard wood floor or cement it will often break the shaft. I ran a pool room with ten tables for 4 years that had hardwood floors and would find one to two cues broken each week, tho we did $165,000 in pool time in two years, and being a brew pub, alcohol was prevelant. I've seen rubber tiles and fiberglass tile work well, rubber being much easier to clean.
Good luck.
Shouldn't be a problem.
I have had my Gold Crown on a concrete floor for about 5 years. The cueball has flown off the table tons of time and it has only a few little scratches/knicks.
Buy a good set of balls and you might end up having to replace the cueball every 5 years. Always lay your cue on the table!
I have had my Gold Crown on a concrete floor for about 5 years. The cueball has flown off the table tons of time and it has only a few little scratches/knicks.
Buy a good set of balls and you might end up having to replace the cueball every 5 years. Always lay your cue on the table!
blueridge said:
I was a mason for about 10 years before I got injured. There are plenty of economical solutions to this problem (I saw a TON of different ideas). The solutions range from a rubber-ish paint to (and this is pretty economical) buying those cheap oversize foam puzzle pieces for kids. Don't forget to cover your walls around the pool table with something resilient to people with a huge backswing and to balls flying off the table. Paneling is fairly resilient, or you can get some half sheets of thin plastic and screw/ nail/ adhere them to the wall.
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Island Drive said:
Thanks a lot for the info. I'm not having a commerical pool room built. Just a little 24 X 16 room for personal use that I'm putting a practice table in.
So if I went with one of the floor tiles you recommend, if I dropped my cue on the tiled floor, would it not do much damage? I guess it wouldn't damage a pool ball either.
blueridge said:
haha...
IIIIII never have, but my GF did. She leaned it against the side of the table, like alot of people do, and I watched it fall over sideways. It basically put a series of pinhole size knicks about every 6-10 inches for the length of the cue. After a little shaft work, very few people would every notice it was dropped.
blueridge said:
I split the shaft on my McD when it dropped to the floor (unfinished concrete). The tip-end really slaps down hard, and the resulting split was perhaps 1.5" long, starting just behind the ferrule. I had just leaned it against the wall, but not too well apparently, and it slid down and went WHACK ... I went WAAAAAAA :crying:
After 10 years or so my low-end Aramiths have little chips and scratches from bouncing on the concrete occasionally, but they are still playable.
Dave
DaveK said:
Awww...I am SO sorry to hear that. I know that leaning things against walls can be very difficult
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blueridge said:
When a cue hits Any hard flat surface, all the force (just like a whip) goes to the tip of the cue, if it was in my home and I had a hard floor, I'd just be extra careful with my cue and minimize the construction cost, better yet purchase an inexpensive piece of carpet an it'll work just fine.
I recommend something like this:
This is what I put on my basement concrete floor surrounding the pool table. Good protection, inexpensive, reasonably good looking, and durable. I got mine from a local PepBoys, but if you Google "interlocking mats" you'll get plenty of online options for this type of product.
This is what I put on my basement concrete floor surrounding the pool table. Good protection, inexpensive, reasonably good looking, and durable. I got mine from a local PepBoys, but if you Google "interlocking mats" you'll get plenty of online options for this type of product.
brechbt said:I recommend something like this:
This is what I put on my basement concrete floor surrounding the pool table. Good protection, inexpensive, reasonably good looking, and durable. I got mine from a local PepBoys, but if you Google "interlocking mats" you'll get plenty of online options for this type of product.
These are what I was referring to.
You could also look at carpet tiles too, used mostly commercially, which would be more expensive than foam but probably last longer.
I've always been amazed how high a solid phenolic ball will bounce when it hits concrete, it looks like it's made of rubber! I have a table in my garage and have had balls hit the concrete a few times and not noticed any particular damage. I've seen far more chips and such caused by nails in the pockets that have not been hammered in far enough, or on the cue ball by phenolic tips.
As for the balls themselves I've used both Aramith Super Pros and Centennials and been pretty disappointed in how easily the surfaces get marred in normal use. The Aramith Pro Cup "Measles" cue ball is just a joke for how badly it's surface gets marked, far worse than their old Red Circle cue balls were.
I've always been amazed how high a solid phenolic ball will bounce when it hits concrete, it looks like it's made of rubber! I have a table in my garage and have had balls hit the concrete a few times and not noticed any particular damage. I've seen far more chips and such caused by nails in the pockets that have not been hammered in far enough, or on the cue ball by phenolic tips.
As for the balls themselves I've used both Aramith Super Pros and Centennials and been pretty disappointed in how easily the surfaces get marred in normal use. The Aramith Pro Cup "Measles" cue ball is just a joke for how badly it's surface gets marked, far worse than their old Red Circle cue balls were.
Besides the balls and cue stick hitting the concrete floor, try standing on it for hours at a time. Any table I work on, if it's sitting on concrete and I have to spend hours on that kind of a floor, my legs get so sore I hurt for days afterwards. At the very least, you could go to Home Depot and buy a 3'ft roll of indoor/outdoor carpet and lay down a 3'ft strip all the way around the tableblueridge said:
xianmacx said:
My table has always sat on a concrete floor. More balls have come off that table than I can count when I practice my break --- its the drywall that gets it :grin-square: If you are worried about it put some carpet down. One of the rooms in Phoenix years ago (all ground level floors there are concrete slabs) just carpeted AROUND the table (big square of concrete under the table) so it could be replaced easier.
realkingcobra said:Besides the balls and cue stick hitting the concrete floor, try standing on it for hours at a time. Any table I work on, if it's sitting on concrete and I have to spend hours on that kind of a floor, my legs get so sore I hurt for days afterwards. At the very least, you could go to Home Depot and buy a 3'ft roll of indoor/outdoor carpet and lay down a 3'ft strip all the way around the table
Yup, I'm not sure if I read your post correctly, from someone's reply it sounded like a commercial room? Or, is it in your house? We have concrete floor in our rec room and bought a piece of carpet big enough to go around the table so that you stand on it to play. About $100, indoor/outdoor.
Forgot to say, it's under the table, too.