Monthly Archives: May 2026

Health risk of breathing in mould spores

Due to me breathing in mould spores from a re-cloth on a pool table last week , I am now laid up with a very bad chest infection and sore throat , also my kidneys ache .
I do not know how long this is going to affect me , but for now I have a cancelled a few jobs this week and rearranged the work for later on ., this gives me a few more days to fight this infection off .
I will not now be doing any table work on such bad spore growth mould on tables .
and I think it is on the owners of such tables to clean them up before arrival and spray anti mould spray on them , removing all cloth that is affected .

We have a very nice oak finish Optima Monaco pool table for sale from a private house in Edinburgh Scotland
the buyer would have to arrange to collect and dismantle themselves , and the table has to come downstairs but the good news is , it all comes apart .
lid up slate out , thin line body , and 4 bolt off legs .
I will put any buyer int ouch with our private seller , who is moving house , and is now selling the table .
I have looked at how much these Optima Monaco tables are now and they are a top range table with a price range of £1915 to £2034 at liberty Games .
I have advised our buyer that some may decide to have the table re-clothed others will make do with it as it is for a year or so .
the pool table comes with a good range of accessories .
The table if on the ground floor would be worth close to £1000 , so our guide price of £650 just for a stairs problem is very good value , some may be able to fit a slide U channel to the slate , a few blankets or a strip of old carpet and you would be able to slide the slate down bit by bit in a controlled fashion with ease .
This is how a professional fitting firm may do it and I will show photos of that with a full size table slate section which is much heavier .

Any way priced to sell quick at just £650 which is a Bargain for one of these tables .
I only sold one of these the other month with a re-cloth at £1350 , if it was closer I would have had it myself .

This last photo shows a two inch thick piece of slate with a U section slide strapped to it and behind you can see the strip of carpet we put on the stairs to slide this down bit by bit .
The same method could be used if you made a U channel to strap tot he pool slate which is 1/2 the weight of this snooker slab section .
a pool slate is 5/8th thick , the snooker slate is 2 inch thick .

Please contact Geoff at GCL Billiards , and I will put you in touch with the owner in Scotland .
This is ideal for someone up that end of the Country , most for sale are right down south .
There area few table fitting firms in Scotland who may quote you to bring this table downstairs and deliver it to a ground floor .
I do have a couple of contacts up there including Scott Mcintosh and Tayside Snooker .

Ball sets include a snooker set / pool set / cue rack / scoreboard / Brush / triangle / and 4 cues .

I have a custom made set of highly polished wood table tops in 4 sections , all bubble wrapped as taken off a table from a very nice furnished house where the table tops where very carefully handled on and off the table , the table has been sold , and we now have this set of very expensive table tops that where hand made by a joinery shop and polished , fitted with under bracing to stop dipping or warping .
My client paid around £1395 to have this hand joinery made set of hard wood trim and veneer table tops made up , when he bought the full size snooker table as an extra cost to the table .
Asking a very reasonable £495 and if local to Nottingham or Derby I will deliver .
Ask any joinery shop to make a set like this and you will find they are not low cost .
I have two sets of hard wood tops , I have only ever had one set up for sale before these , they are rare to find , and when you do some are nothing more than rough bits of 8×4 from the wood yard bare wood just slung over the table .
I did get someone inquire for a set a few months back but never took their number as I said they rarely come up for sale , then this past month two sets come up .
This set is £495 cash sale . the other set is a bit lower at £250 , take your choice , if you are not fussed about polished wood then go for the silver ones they are also a very well made set , but if you like to see a bit of craftmanship and polished wood grain these are the ones for you .
and as can be seen from the photos they are as mint condition as you will find a set .
and to keep them like that I bubble wrapped them on site , they are now at my own home in storage in Long Eaton Nottingham wrapped ready for collection or delivery if close by .

I have a client who has sold his table and now has a rare to find 4 section table cover in silver finish
Cloth underlined to protect cushion capping’s frieze and cushion cloth .
Simple sale £250 buyer collects .
You cannot make them for this kind of money , buyer to arrange collection from Walsall
Table is going tomorrow Saturday the 16th , table 4 section top are available from after this date .

PRIVATE SALE DIRECT FROM THE SELLER . collection to be arranged from High Wycombe , please read more >>>>>

We do not get many 10fts come up for sale and when they do , they normally sell very fast , especially if priced sensibly taking into account what it would cost to have one dismantled and delivered and set back up , so this one has been very Fairley priced and comes with all accessories as shown .
My client thought this was a 3/4 size but it is a bit larger than that , 9ft is 3/4 size , this one is a rear size to find at 10ft .

*** The table also comes with a hard top cover as used by the selling client as a dining table
Light is also included .

Size: 323 cm (L) x 174 cm (W) x 82 cm (H)

Slate bed

3-piece wooden dining top cover

Overhead green snooker light

Full set of cues and rests

Multiple sets of balls

Cue rack

Traditional scoreboard

Triangle and accessories

Not sure on rubber rebound value in cushions , but it definitely could do with a re-cloth and maybe new nets and leathers if required at same time .

The table is based in High Wycombe , and we could quote for the dismantle , traveling and setting back up if on ground floor at both ends . we could also recommend a firm if you collect and needed a fitter closer to you .
Contact Geoff at GCL Billiards for more information .