Work coming in , but some cloth colours and grade hard to get hold of at the moment .

We are having some difficulty in getting hold of some grades of cloth especially when you order some preferential choice of colours .

this is not a fault of GCL Billiards but a back demand from the Covid period of the last two years and pressure on the manufacturers of the cloth to full fill orders already in on a back log ,
this results in cloth they have ins tock being rushed out as back orders , and a shortage of ready made kits cut to size to be dispatched on more recent ordering , lets take purple for instance , today I ordered a 8ft snooker set , and was told 26th of August they will have some ready , so I had to explain this to my client who understands and has accepted a date in September for his work to be done on his table .
Sometimes you may be wishing to have your table done ASAP , but if the cloth is not available from the manufacturers then we have to have an alternative colour or maybe be lucky and we have some on our own racking of stock as I do keep a supply of the most in demand cloth .
or wait for the lead time we are given which is only an estimate and cannot be set in stone that cloth will be dispatched on a given date .
this applies to all makes of cloth and grades .
This week I am expecting an order for grey 7ft pool Hainsworth match cloth that I ordered 6 weeks ago .
just like the building trade coming out of Covid has led to a shortage of goods , and we have also had some price increases too , so some may be shocked on quotes given say two or three months ago to suddenly find up to 15% price increase has been put on cloth and other overheads .