Sagging Floors

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Baby PacMan

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I'm new to pool, having just purchased my first (starter) pool table within the last six months. I'm also a new homeowner. Living in an older home (about a 100 years) and have noticed the floors sag. I guess I really didn't notice when we first bought the house because it wasn't much of an issue. However since putting in the pool table, I've seen that the leg levelers drop off almost an inch from the highest point of the floor to the lowest.

I plan to use jacks in our basement to raise the floor. Right now I'm using a cheap MDF pool table. I've really enjoyed billiards enough to know I want this in my home permanently (thankfully my girlfriend does also). My table right now only weighs 300 lbs. I know the move to a slate table, at minimum, doubles that.

I guess I'm just wondering if anyone has experience in dealing with this issue. Can jacks support a table? How do you level a table in house such as mine if you have a pool table with ball and claw legs and not leg levelers?

Thank you
 
fix your floor

I would fix the house to stop it from sagging.If it is just the one floor you can have a contractor go underneath and put in more support joist,posts,and or beams.The best way is to use concrete under the suport posts.If it is the whole house moving you will need some serious foundation work.

The wieght of a pool table will not make a floor sag if it is built properly.
 
Spread the weight load over a wider area.

Put some wide planks or tiles or metal sheets, etc. under the feet of the table.

It will spread the load across a wider area of your floor and may prevent the sag.

Get your home reinspected if your floors are really sagging that bad. Something ain't right.

Just a thought.
 
I had the floor reinforced when I put in the Gold Crown.
The horizontal beams are in line with the feet of the table, and the vertical posts are directly under the feet.
Solid as a rock and the floor is less than 1/4" off level end-to-end.
The trick is to get a qualified flooring guy for the job. As my dad used to say, "If it's worth doing, it's worth hiring someone to do it right."

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Baby PacMan said:
I'm new to pool, having just purchased my first (starter) pool table within the last six months. I'm also a new homeowner. Living in an older home (about a 100 years) and have noticed the floors sag. I guess I really didn't notice when we first bought the house because it wasn't much of an issue. However since putting in the pool table, I've seen that the leg levelers drop off almost an inch from the highest point of the floor to the lowest.

I plan to use jacks in our basement to raise the floor. Right now I'm using a cheap MDF pool table. I've really enjoyed billiards enough to know I want this in my home permanently (thankfully my girlfriend does also). My table right now only weighs 300 lbs. I know the move to a slate table, at minimum, doubles that.

I guess I'm just wondering if anyone has experience in dealing with this issue. Can jacks support a table? How do you level a table in house such as mine if you have a pool table with ball and claw legs and not leg levelers?

Thank you
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Seriously I would be more concerned about safety than the pool table, it sounds like you have some very very serious structural issues, a pool table addition should not effect a floor in the manner you are speaking of.:eek:
 
If a pool table is heavy enough to move your floor level, truth is...its the house's fault. We install about 300 tables a year. We have more problems with new construction than old. Older houses are built SO much better in the St. Louis area than new ones. But any house that cannot support a pool table cannot support 10 people. 10 People x 200 lbs each = 2000 pounds. So if you have 10 people over for a bbq your floor will give? That is pretty serious construction issues at that point. Like other posters suggested...fix the house.
 
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