We are having problems with a line connection to our office telephone at home so our land line number is out of action
until an engineer can come out to us on Wednesday the 12th May .
The surprising thing is …our internet connection is unaffected,  it is just the phone line connection from your end it seems we are engaged all the time .
BT say this can happen ?
My mobile is ok though but I can only answer that if not hands  on a job which most of the time I am unloading lifting slates in or fitting cloth on tables .  07753 466064
My email is working ok and that is the best way to contact me at the moment .     c.large@btinternet.com
But we are fully booked out now until June 21st , I am having some major work done on the house for the next two weeks so I am taking most of that time off
and also I have a weeks Holiday in Devon end of May for a week too .
I do have back up Recommended fitters from other firms though if work is Urgent , these are third party fitters and nothing to do with GCL Billiards though .
they are there for overflow work I cannot fit in , or if you cannot wait for me to do the work .

We have been selected as a list of firms that use Hainsworth products ,  to be on Hainsworth Recommended Fitters list called THE FIT LIST
Hainsworth are a premier cue sports cloth manufacturer here in the UK of high end products .
along with our other recommendation organisation of the Nottingham billiards & Snooker Association we are proud to be associated with both parties .
Hainsworth for nation wide recommendation and the NBSA for local league snooker recommendation .

Hainsworth Purple Smart napped cloth .

The FIT List

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  GCL BILLIARDS SNOOKER & POOL

  Billiards fitter with 44 years fitting experience. GCL Billiards formed after working for a long established billiards firm, Elston & Hopkin Billiards of Nottingham, for over 33 years (not to be confused with later firm using same name). Approaching 45 years of billiards fitting and 10 years as GCL Billiards.

  “My eyes were opened to Hainsworth cloth as my clients’ preference. It is well documented as a cloth preferred by top end players for instance, and especially the up and coming pool table industry is now dominated by Hainsworth cloth as being the go to for cloth, especially Match and Elite Pro.

  The Hainsworth Smart cloth grade has the most colours available of any cloth manufacturer and is widely the go to cloth for interior designers.

  All Hainsworth cloth is an easy cloth to fit especially the Match as it forms much better around the slate falls and cushion angles than its leading competitor.”

  Areas covered: Mainly central England from Northampton to Sheffield and East Coast to Stoke. Being based close to Junction 25 of M1 I can go north south east or west.

  07753466064
  01159725355
  c.large@btinternet.com
  www.gclbilliards.com

  A few of the tables that have had Hainsworth product cloths fitted to the tables by GCL Billiards .

  Just completed this Re-cloth on Hainsworth smart Royal blue , and letter of Recommendation .

  Re-cloth full size Riley Aristocrat in Hainsworth Match cloth , and impressive Man Cave .

  Cueball Derby two full size Snooker Tables, re-cloth in Hainsworth Match

  Cueball Club Derby , re-cover in Hainsworth Match on table 1 ….an insight to what it takes to fit match cloth to a full size snooker table

  Custom Taupe cloth colour for BCE snooker table fitted .

  Pool table re-cover in Special order Bright golden Yellow smart cloth for King Billy Pub nottingham , also printed designer cloth info .

  
  Blue Hainsworth smart cloth
  
  
  Hainsworth Elite Pro in electric blue .

  So if you require an upgrade of cloth then we can Recommend  Hainsworth cloths in all grades , from durability to speed and trueness of cloth .
  Phone Geoff or email GCL billiards to discuss what cloth is right for your circumstances and use .

Very happy to See Mark has regained his title again , that’s 4 times and he is still young enough to win it a few times more yet .
and regain his No 1 spot to challenge Judd Trump who holds that position at the moment .
I see a few people knock his style of play , but he has success with that style so why change it .
Mark is A Local east Midlands Lad from Leicester , he has done well for himself .

My self and Mark at Stapleford cue club her in Nottinghamshire  a few years ago , on one of his exhibition match evenings .

We are rushed off our feet at the moment
working up to 6 days a week including some Saturdays , BUT NEVER ON A SUNDAY
THAT IS THE DAY I DO NOTHING .
I am going to cut back down to a normal 5 days a week only and no answering of phones out of work hours , and not on at all on a  Sunday please .
we are now booked out until June .
We get a lot of scam callers and most have withheld their number , now I know some people have a blocker on their number which I understand maybe  due to a security reason ,
but due to the high volume of scam callers
I am now not going to answer Withheld number calls .

if you wish to make a phone call to us please unblock your withheld number so I know it is not a scam .
We get every type of scammer from Web site improvers to electric and Gas and BT scammers .
In fact I get around 12 BT scam callers and emails a week .
To avoid the headache of all this I have to draw the line somewhere and now is the time to do this .
so unfortunately if I cannot see a number on my phone I will not answer .

my opening hours are 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday
PLEASE TAKE NOTE I may be working hands on a table , unloading re-clothing re-rubber gluing pool cloth , and may not be able to answer the phone .
the best way top contact me is through my email

c.large@btinternet.com

Remember the good fitters in our billiards and snooker  industry are always busy
More than often I am hands on working in someone’s house and it would be rude of me to break off and start answering calls , when I should be cracking on and getting the work completed .
it is not surprising to find  a lot of missed calls on my phone when I get back into my van , some I can answer as they have left a contact message or text .
Not many good fitters are about these days , and this means we may not be able to answer all calls in a day  .
I tend to phone back if you have left a text or message , if I have not phoned back it may be because your message ended or your voice is unrecognizable and muffled ,  or did not register on my phone .

I have had to cancel and looking to re-arrange a few job’s if my bad back and sciatica does not ease up .
it is a long suffering recurring injury and gets worse the more lifting of tables and slate I do .
which at the moment is a lot .
It is the Piriformis muscle expanding and crushing or trapping the nerves , I do not have a herniated or bulging disc .
this causes acute lower back pain and  in the groin area , plus spreading down the leg to lower calf and ankle pain

This illustration above shows the acute pain area I have at the moment
last night I did not get any sleep at all , and today I have spent 2 hours in the hot tub with the warm jets relieving the pain
I bought this hot tub 2 years ago to treat my aches and pains of fitting snooker and pool  tables as I get older .
and it is the only thing that works for me at the moment , these creams you put on are useless and so are some of the pain killers .
not only is the pain in the main Sciatic nerve but there are smaller nerves spreading out like an hand to the front of my groin , these are being irritated too
The causes extreme incruciating pain

All these smaller branches of nerves are also affected not just the main thick nerve that runs into the leg
any one who suffers with this will know just what I having to put up with these last few days .
I have had epidural injection three , two weeks apart to try and fix this some time ago , it was a quick fix and did not really do much in actually curing Sciatica .
I have tried to carry on working fitting tables but even sat driving I am in pain .
and I had a 6 hours of driving yesterday 3 hours there and 3 hours back with 4 hours fitting ,  when I went to fit a 9ft table near Cromer in Purple .
it was after this long day that my back got really  bad pain last night .
they say that sitting is not good for Sciatica , but 6 hours driving standing up is impossible .

so please stick with me if you have a table booked in for work . if you are affected I will make contact to give the reason I cannot do the work .
I do not like letting anyone down , and will get to you to do the work , all I am asking is a bit of leeway to fit you back in to reschedule the work at  a later date
I am sure some of you with just re-cloth work could wait a bit longer as you can still play on the old cloth for a week or two until I reschedule you back in  , it is the actual fitting and moving of tables I will have to really try and reschedule with you or maybe have to pass on work to a  couple of fitters that I know .if you cannot wait a little longer .
If you do not hear from me your work is not affected , but it may be a day before that I phone you .
as Sciatica is one of those injury’s that you just do not know how long it will last .
Easter is here and this gives me at least 4 days to rest it up , plus do a  few stretching exercise that is suppose to alleviate the Piriformis muscle trapping the nerves .
so hopefully I will be OK for Tuesday 6th April and that job is a  full size table and a small pool table fit too   in the same House , lifting 5 heavy slates onto frame from a Garage store  and also 2 hours drive there and 2 hours drive back .
I will keep all those affected in the loop ,
and thanks to all that understand what I am going through at the moment , I would not wish Sciatic pain onto anyone  .