How to move a pool table

This is episode number 180 of The Homeowner Show. Whether you're DIY or looking to hire, we're here to help you find the best information and options for you and your home. My name is Kevin Hackett, and here with me is Craig Williams.

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All right, so real quick, okay, we gotta— we gotta take a moment. Yes, we do, because something big happened.

Okay. What was it?

In your life.

In my life?

Yeah. What happened? Tell everybody.

Oh, I accepted an offer on my house.

Hey! Hey!

And everybody went wild. That's right. The crowd went wild. The crowd went wild.

Kevin sold his house, y'all. Yeah.

So—

He is currently—

Homeless.

Yeah. He's, he's unqualified to host the show. That's actually true.

That's funny. Oh, that's the funniest thing you've said in a long time, Greg.

Took me 180 episodes.

Yeah.

Cheers.

So, um, last week's episode, if you remember, I mentioned that we were gonna put our house up on the market that week.

Yep.

And it was a little bit crazy this weekend. We put it up, our house up on Thursday. And we had, oh, we had a lot of people coming through our house.

Um, didn't you say you were like 30 showings or something?

No, it— well, I think it was like 20 plus.

20.

In 3 days.

Overselling.

I mean, there's a lot. Overselling. Um, so it, it felt like a lot. I was thankful we had, we had shipped our kids off to Grandma's house, and I was really glad that we did that because, I mean, it was like all the time. In fact, it got to the point where my wife was like writing it down on a spreadsheet when we were actually having people at our house because we're like, are we supposed to be here? Are we not supposed to be here? What's going on? So we just left all day. And, uh, we, we literally from Friday evening until Sunday evening did not eat at our house. Every single, every single meal we eat, we ate out.

That's terrible.

Because I'm, I'm not complaining. All I'm saying is that that's not usual for us. Um, and so Anyway, it worked out. We got multiple offers over asking, which is wonderful.

Yeah.

Um, so yeah, we, we were excited, although we're homeless because we're— so we did accept an offer. Uh, of course, not everything's finalized in any way, shape, or form, but it's been accepted. Um, we're moving through the process, and yeah, now we just need to find where we're going to live from there. Permanently, at least.

It's exciting, man.

Congratulations.

Thanks.

No, it is. We're—

trust me. No, it's, it's, it's a big— I mean, like, not knowing where you're gonna go.

Oh yeah.

Like, I, I know that's a big, like, like, that's like not just for you, like the big step for like your wife.

Yeah. Okay, so let's put— let's, let's really put this into perspective because here's, here's the thing. We've been talking about this for over a year about what we were gonna do.

Right.

Because we want to buy a property on some land.

Uh-huh.

And even if that means we need to build a barndominium like we discussed last week—

Which you're pretty much sold on.

Pretty much sold on. If we can find land only, which, you know, we'll see what we find. But the thing is, we live in such a market right now that in order to make an offer on another property, it doesn't matter what it is, You need to not have a contingency.

Right.

You need to not be under a mortgage. You need to be able to pay for something. And so—

Maybe because let's be honest, you missed out on a, on an opportunity because your house wasn't—

We did. Yeah, we did. We had a, we had a great opportunity.

I'm not trying to rub it, I'm not trying to rub it in your face or anything like that, but like, that's, that's what happened.

No, we, we found a great place that we really, really liked. we hadn't sold our house. It wasn't even up on the market yet, and we just didn't— we missed out on it, right? And so this is the, this is the crazy thing. Our realtor, Brandy, Brandy Burke— I'll put a, yeah, plug out for her. She's been on our, on our show before.

She's wonderful.

Uh, we love her. She, she does great. And she told us a year ago, she said, guys, I hear what you're asking. You want to buy another property. Let me explain to you That you're not gonna be able to do that when you still have a mortgage.

Right.

It's just not gonna happen. She said, I'm sorry to tell you, you're going to have to sell your house before you can buy something else.

Yeah.

And I was like, what? Like, I've always heard that you can, you know, be in process.

You can make some moves. You can finagle.

Right.

You can wheel and deal.

Not, not, not in this market. Nope. It's just not gonna happen.

Yeah.

And so, yeah. We sold our house, and we don't have another house to move into. Now—

Yeah.

We, we figured out a, an option. We, we found a place to move into to lease for a time.

Yeah.

Thankfully, it's a month to month, so it's gonna work out for us well. We're not gonna get into a long-term anything so that we can be fluid, so that we can buy something when we're ready. Wait.

And, and you guys, you guys are in a little bit different situation than most people. I mean, you guys had backup plans for your backup plans.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's true. Yeah, because we, we have a camper, right? Uh, it's a, it's a nice enough camper that we could live in it if we need to.

Yeah.

And honestly, I still expect that's gonna happen.

Oh yeah?

Well, I mean, if we wind up buying a piece of property, I'm moving on it.

Yeah.

Immediately.

With the camper?

With the camper.

Yeah.

And I, I mean, legitimately, what I think is gonna happen is we're gonna wind up on a camp— in a camper eventually.

Uh-huh.

and buy some sort of metal building, like a storage shed, and it'll be big enough to kinda store all of our stuff.

Mhmm.

And then also maybe build out, like, a small bathroom and a little living area so that we have, like, a little bit more space. But I expect that's probably still gonna happen. So we're, we're set up to be able to, like, if worse came to worst, we could live at a KOA if we needed to. Right?

But I'm kinda half hoping you guys end up in the SAM so that we can go pig hunting every once in a while.

That, that would be kinda fun.

That would be fun.

That would be fun. So anyway, I— it's, it's a weird time. And those of you out there that are looking to buy a house right now, like, it's weird. It's a weird, weird time. I mean, but like I said, we had multiple offers. Most of them were over asking price. And, honestly, it, it's one of those deals where it's like, you don't know what's gonna happen. Or, I mean, we've had, we've had numerous people who were trying to be helpful.

Mhmm.

Who were like, oh, it's a great time to sell your home, but it's a horrible time to buy a home. Was true. But it's like, well, thanks for telling us.

Yeah.

So we're in the process. Thank you for telling us that. Thanks for that heads up, Jelen. Yeah. Alright. But it's like, you know, if you're gonna buy high, I mean, if you're gonna sell high, you're gonna buy high.

Right.

It's just the way it is.

Um, unless you can get into this weird vortex, vortex where it's like the market.

Yes, where you predicted a market and you, you sell high and then it crashes somehow, you know, that—

or you got the wherewithal to hang on until it does crash, right?

Which, I mean, most people just don't have that luxury. I mean, no, I mean, the reality of it is we, we came out really, really well on this home because, um, the— just the market has increased so much that we've, we've made a lot of money on, on the investment of this home. When you lease a home or you rent an apartment or whatever it is, the money just goes away.

Flushing it down the pooper.

That's right. And I'm not saying that that's not a good option for a lot of people because depending on the lifestyle that you're trying to live and what you're trying to do with your life, it may be a great option. Yeah, you're not investing anything. It's just money that you will never see again, right? And the people that you're paying it to are just getting richer off of it, you know?

Absolutely.

That's— it's just the way it goes. So anyway, I, I don't know. I honestly, I'm in this weird, like, super excited place and also like, oh my gosh, we got so much to do. We gotta move. I hate moving.

Yep.

Oh, it's awful.

Speaking of things to do.

Yeah.

You gotta pay the bills.

We gotta pay the bills.

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Yes.

We did a thing.

Oh my goodness. Yeah. Okay. So here, let me set the stage.

Uh-huh.

Okay. Craig, you called me.

Yep.

You're like, hey.

As so many of our adventures begin.

Yes. So all, pretty much all of them. And you say, hey, Uh, what are you doing Thursday? Like, I don't know, hopefully nothing.

And, and you're like, well, nay, I say.

It's like, no, I probably got something for you. Um, you're like, are you up for an adventure? I'm like, oh, well, now you piqued my interest. Does it include lunch? That's really the way that was.

Lunch is included.

Okay, I'm in. What do you want me to do? And he's like, Um, well, someone gave me a pool table. I was like, ah, crap. But here's how that— the rest of that conversation goes.

And heroes before us had failed.

That's, that's true. That's true. Like legitimate heroes.

Legitimate heroes.

Do we want to call them out? No, we don't want to, right?

Not specifically by their department.

Okay. No, but, but the bottom line is a group of muscular firefighters decided we can't move that thing. We don't want that because we can't move it. How are we supposed to move that thing? And Craig calls me, obviously, and is like, Kevin, I think you—

Being of great stature that you are.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. My 5'7 physique and a little bit of a belly here was like, Surely we can both move this thing, right? And, uh, I remember very specifically I said, Craig, here's the thing. I'm pretty sure in about a month, I'm gonna need some help moving stuff.

Turned out less than that.

Turned out less than that. Um, when and where? I'll move whatever you need me to because I'm gonna need the reciprocated help. And so we started off with a good lunch. I'll tell you that.

We did.

We started— do we wanna talk about lunch?

I can, but I butter my help.

You do. It was literally— we literally had butter.

Honey butter. Honey.

Oh my gosh. I— okay. We, we got a skillet cornbread.

Uh-huh.

Cast iron skillet cornbread. This is at the— I'm pretty sure.

Red Brick Tavern.

Red Brick Tavern.

In downtown Conroe.

Yes. And, and I think it, I think it had jalapeños in it.

It did, yeah.

And some other—

It wasn't jalapeños, it was, uh, Hatch chilies. Oh.

And it also had sweetness.

Yes.

I don't know what— oh my goodness, there was, there was all kinds of good stuff going on.

I have never—

I told Craig, I said, I have never had cornbread this good.

Yeah.

And he goes, really? And I go, yeah, really, never.

And you looked at me like cockeyed when I ordered it too.

Oh, I was— well, I was thinking I'm fine with it appetizer. Okay. I mean, I like cornbread.

Yeah.

But I had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. I could have eaten like 4 of those and that's it.

But— It would have been way cheaper. It would have been.

But we didn't stop there. No, no, no. Because then we also got a pizza. Do you want to explain the pizza?

Well, so this is— so if If you guys are from the Conroe area and you haven't been to the Red Brick Tavern, go to the Red Brick Tavern.

Yes.

They have a wood-fired oven pizza oven. Mhmm. And, so they have lots of specialty pizzas, but they have this one in particular. It's a filet mignon gorgonzola pizza.

Oh.

So, but, like, you, you really have to like those kinds of things in order to enjoy this pizza.

Yeah.

I mean, oh, because it's got caramelized onions. It's got gorgonzola cheese.

Got pesto.

It's got pesto on it. It's got filet mignon. And so, but like, it's, it's a pretty good-sized pie.

Oh, oh, I mean, we didn't eat all of it. No, we ate all the cornbread. We ate all the cornbread. We did not. We did. We didn't eat all the pizza, but only one slice. This is a pretty good-sized pizza.

Yeah, but I mean, the two of us shared it and then we were plenty full.

Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And I think we would have been plenty full without the cornbread.

Oh, yeah. So we, we definitely— that was really good. But then we go to the place that has the pool table.

Uh-huh.

And you had done some research.

A little bit.

On this.

Yep.

Which is good because—

And by a little bit, I'm like, I'm underselling. Like, I'd done, I'd done a lot of research.

A lot. Because here's the thing, there's pool tables and then there's actual pool tables.

Right.

This is—

there is a significant difference.

There is. So, um, I, I'll tell you, it's an Olhausen pool table.

Yep.

Which is a name brand, if you don't know. It's— most of you know. It's like buying a Brunswick type of thing, right? It's a name brand. It's a full slate table. Uh-huh. It's not a wooden piece of junk. Nope. And, uh, yeah, in fact, we got there and, um, Someone said, uh, where's everybody else?

Yeah.

And it was like, I think my words were, look at us.

What makes you think that we can't do this? Well, I, and I think that's a reasonable reaction, right? Because one, they'd already had 4 guys show up who are pretty big dudes.

Yep.

And this is, this is exactly what was said to me. It's like, look, I just had 4 guys show up. and they were really big dudes, and they're bigger than you. And what makes you think that you can move this?

Well, first of all, don't tell me what I can't do.

Yeah.

That's first of all. Right? Don't tell either Craig or me, either one of us, you can't do something because bullcrap is probably gonna be said back to you.

Right. So, I mean, like, here's, here's the, the theme for the show.

Okay.

Everything is figureoutable. Oh.

Absolutely it is.

Yeah.

And, and most of the things in life are simply the sum of their parts.

Yeah.

Right? Right? For sure. And so that's really what happened here.

Well—

We, we subtracted the parts. Yeah.

Well, I mean, like, so I love pool.

Yo, yeah, me too.

I love playing pool.

I'm probably better than you.

I've always wanted a pool table. Give it time.

Okay.

I've got a table now.

Yeah, you do.

And so, you know, I've always wanted— and so like, it was—

it—

so you tell me like free pool table, it's a nice pool table. Yeah. You know, I don't know, I think you said it was probably like a $2,000 or $3,000 pool table.

Oh yeah, easily.

Yes. So like, that's, that's money I don't have to spend. So if you tell me like, look, just figure out how to move it and get it into your house, done.

I'm in.

I'm gonna figure it out.

Yep.

I did my research. You and I just showed up with some simple tools.

Oh, okay. So first of all, by research you mean YouTube?

Yes.

That's all you need in life. But we showed up with— let's name the tools. Okay, we showed up with a, uh, Ryobi drill, a regular Ryobi drill, uh-huh, and with a, with a Ryobi, um, impact drill.

Oh, okay.

And then a pair of pliers.

Yep.

And a, a flathead screwdriver.

And a pocket knife. And yes, pocket knife actually came in.

It was one of the most— that was one of the most important things we had, is a pocket knife.

Yeah.

Because we— here's the thing, uh, the, the pool table felt is stapled about 4 million times to, to the actual wood. And honestly, the pliers were having a hard time getting it started.

Yeah.

The flathead was having a hard time getting it started, but the knife—

The knife did the job.

Buck knife. Is it just a buck knife, right?

That's all it was.

Got it started. I was afraid you were gonna break that.

I think I have it right here in my pocket. Yeah, I can tell you exactly what kind it is.

I literally thought maybe it's an old-timer.

It is. What is it?

It's an old-timer.

I can't read the name. My dad gave me this knife though.

Oh, that's sweet. I can't really— I can't like—

see if you can read it. I can't read the name on the side of the knife.

Yeah.

But it's, it's a—

Oh no, I can't either. It, it, it's like a Buck knife.

Yeah.

Or, or yeah.

I mean, if you guys can— can they see that?

Yeah.

Is that, is that focused properly?

Okay, you're good. Yeah, it's, it's just a—

well, there it goes.

That broke it.

Now the knife's done.

I was literally afraid that, um, you were gonna snap off the, the end of the blade, but, um, but you didn't, which is good. But that's what— that was it.

That ended up being like one of the most important tools that we had on the whole thing.

Yeah, well, because it saved us so much time, and that was the most time-consuming thing of this entire ordeal, was taking all the staples out.

Well, I mean, like, I think we're kind of putting the cart a little bit before the horse. But so here's— we moved a pool table. Yeah.

By 2 people.

It's on the other side of this door, in fact.

Yeah.

And, and, and so, like, the problem was is when we showed up, she had had 4 guys in that house that had said, we can't move this pool table.

Yeah.

And the, the reason they couldn't move the pool table is because they tried to just pick it up and take it out the door.

Oh my gosh.

And there were several problems with that whole process. Right? One, they hadn't done any thinking about it. Two, they hadn't asked any questions.

Right.

All they heard was free pool table, and they showed up with 4 guys and said, we can do this. Well, like, they were gonna have— in order to pick it up and move it out of the room it was in, they were gonna have to turn it sideways, which just wasn't gonna happen.

No.

Like, I mean, I'm sorry, but like, slate is crazy heavy.

Yo, I don't think people fully understand I— we'll get to that in a second. Sure. But it's super heavy.

But most people don't know that pool tables come apart. Yes.

Yes, they do.

You know, and it doesn't take a whole lot of research. And I'm sorry, like, it took me maybe 30 to 45 minutes.

Sorry, I had a, uh, I had a mosquito, uh, hawk.

Mosquito hawk. Mayfly. That's what they're called.

Mayfly.

People call them mosquitoes, but they're mayflies.

Okay, it's whatever. Yeah, um, land on my microphone, that jerk. What? Go ahead.

Sorry, most people just don't understand that pool tables come apart, and they're intended to come apart.

Well, because you can't move them otherwise.

No, you cannot. And, and honestly, you cannot safely move them. Not safely for the people moving them or safe for the table.

No, because I mean, literally, the only way to pick a table up like this is, is to reach underneath it and pick it up just like you'd move anything, right? But it's so heavy. What you're picking up would— if you could, I mean, and, and we're not, um, what, what's her name from Encanto? We're not her.

I don't know her name.

Oh my gosh, you've seen the movie though.

I do know what you're talking about.

Okay, we're not her.

She carries donkeys.

She's pretty hilarious. Well, not her, right? Um, but if you did that, it would just break.

Yep.

I mean, because the, the sheer weight of it, it's just not going to work.

Yeah.

I mean, the physics of it does not work out.

Yeah.

I mean, eventually the hardware is going to fail. Just is, right? Even if you were strong enough to be able to do it.

So, and, and like Slate Like, as heavy as it is, it's very brittle.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh yeah, it can, it, it can, um, crumble.

Yeah, it crumbles really easily.

Yeah, it does. Oh, it's heavy.

It's just so heavy.

Yeah, exactly.

So, so, so anyway, so what do we do? So really what we did, we took it apart, and what you have to start with are the bumpers.

Yes.

And, you know, you, you, you have to take those off. And it's, you know, when you, when you go into a, a project like this, at least for me, it always goes a lot quicker in my brain than it does in the actual doing of the project.

Every time.

Every time.

Yep.

And so you, you start taking the bumpers off, and, and really this is the easiest part of taking the table apart. At least, at least it was for me. I don't know if that's how you remember it.

Oh, that was easy because there were just basically 3, 2 or 3 bolts at the underside.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 bolts total. Okay, so in between, in between the pockets, and that, that's, to be fair, that's just specific to this table. Sure, every table is different. There's different manufacturers and they do different things different. This table had 12 bolts holding the bumpers in.

Yeah, and you just— I mean, they weren't in— I mean, they're not in very far.

No.

I mean, just a simple ratchet, you know, and, and this, this goes out.

This is where the, um, not the drill, but the impact wrench came in real handy.

It was super easy, you know, we just backed those out, and as soon as you back those out It's disconnected from the table.

Yeah.

Those bumpers, you just really have to take the, take the, the bumpers, separate them from the pockets.

What they are is they're bolts that actually go through the, the wood and the wood bottom and the slate top.

Right.

In order to secure the bumpers down.

Yeah.

Um, and I think, I think probably a good tip if you're going to be moving the table on this is, and this is something that we didn't do even though I knew to do it, is to have some baggies prepared in order to hold all your hardware.

Oh yeah, that would have been helpful. We found some, but we didn't bring them with us.

Yeah, we should have, but we just— and I knew that I needed them, I just, you know, forgot, forgot. And thankfully they had some at the house that we could use, right? So, so anyway, so we pulled the hardware out of the bumpers, and then the, the bumpers themselves, you really want to break those down into individual pieces. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 separate pieces.

Yeah.

And, and so there's some bolts typically. They're usually those, those bumper— the pockets are actually holding the bumpers together with some iron rods that are screwed in that once you remove those bumpers, you can actually go up in there and remove those bolts in order to separate the bumpers into smaller pieces.

It really was pretty easy.

Yeah, it would— that, that part was super easy, but you want to do that in order to make the transport a bit easier.

Yeah, yeah. And from after that, this was the hardest part.

Well, and some— so, and this is something that I learned by putting it back together, is you really want to label those.

Oh.

Because those line up with the bolt holes later on.

Okay.

And so if you don't have the right one in the right place, those holes don't line up, so your bolts don't line up. And you kinda have to, like—

So you're telling me that when I took a picture of the slate, probably wasn't smart.

It wasn't smart. We should have just taken many other pictures or, or marked really, really—

It's just a, it's just like a chalk mark or something.

Something to say, like, hey, bottom left.

Hey, top right.

You know, this is where this one goes.

Yeah. Because, I mean, like, they, in theory, should be interchangeable, you would think, but they're not.

I mean, they are, but those bolt holes that we just talked about that you took to secure the bumpers don't line up.

Okay.

If you don't get the right one in there. Okay, depending on the manufacturer.

Sure.

You know, I'm sure there's some manufacturer out there that gets it perfectly right every single time.

Probably not.

This one's not one of them.

Yeah.

Um, I figured it out, but like, it just— it was an annoying extra step later on. Yeah.

So once we got the bumpers off, um, though, then you, you have to take the felt off.

You got to take the felt off.

Because the— because underneath the felt is the slate.

Yes.

And so you have to take the felt off. Well, it is stapled.

This is by far the step that took the longest.

Without any doubt. I mean, I legitimately, Greg, I bet there were 200 staples.

I don't doubt it.

In all the— I mean, there wasn't a space all the way around the entire table where there wasn't a staple.

That's actually probably something important to back up and, and tell people about is we actually had to remove some staples before we take the bumpers out too.

We did, yeah.

Because those pockets actually have strips of leather that hold the pockets up against the table.

Yeah, right.

We had to take those staples out too.

And those are actually difficult. Those are probably—

Those are probably more difficult than the rest of them.

Because going through that leather, it was real leather.

Yeah.

So, and thick leather too.

And so like there weren't as many of them, but those staples were harder.

Yeah, they were. So, so we had to take every staple out. We did that with the knife.

Um, well, we started with a flathead and a pair of needle nose pliers. And we—

it was not working.

We really thought that it was going to go a lot quicker than it did. Um, but flathead screw— and like a pretty, pretty small flathead screwdriver and a pair of needle nose pliers that convert.

Oh, these are weird.

I think I've talked about these pliers before on the show. They're actually my favorite pair of pliers.

They're awesome.

They flip, they invert in between a flathead pair of pliers and a needle nose pair of pliers. So they have a lot of functionality to them.

Yeah.

Um, but we weren't able to get a grip on these staples really well either with a flathead or the pair of pliers. So we moved over to the, the pocket knife.

Right.

And really what we were doing is we were just popping them out with the pocket knife and then grabbing them with the pliers.

It was so much easier. Yeah.

So it really helped to have 2 people.

It did. Yeah, no, it absolutely— and you, you have to have 2 people.

You have to have 2 people to move this, to move this thing.

So once we got the felt off, which honestly that, that did take a very long time. I mean, probably, I mean, that, that process itself was 45 minutes.

I would say at least took 40% of the time.

100%. Yeah, absolutely.

Taking the table apart.

Absolutely did. Yeah. And so then we just roll the felt up, take it out with us, and now we're down to the slate.

Yes.

So at this point there's just some giant screws like, like big, like 3-inch screws, and they're, they're nice and thick.

Um, and they're grooved there into the slate.

Yeah, and that— yeah, they're kind of even at an angle.

Yes. And they're—

I mean, they're very well secured in there, but the impact wrench took them out really, really easily.

Um, and I don't recommend putting them back with the impact.

Oh, okay, that makes sense, because then it could— again, with the brittleness of the slate—

Could crack the slate.

Could crack it.

Yeah.

So, um, we just removed those. There's 2 on each side of, of each piece of slate. So there's 3 pieces of slate underneath the pool table, uh, or on the pool table is made up of 3 pieces.

So it's like 9 screws in total?

Yeah. Uh, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12.

12?

Yeah, there's 12. Um, and so we took all those out, and from there it was literally just picking those pieces of slate up and moving them individually. But, um, those things are heavy.

Yeah, even, even as individual— I mean, because the slate gets broken up into 3 pieces.

They're 3 pieces, yeah. But I'm guessing— you, you tell me what you think— I bet that each of those pieces of slate are 80 to 100 pounds each. Easy, easy, if not more. If— yeah, I mean, we, we obviously can move them fairly easily because we're muscular, incredibly. Oh yeah, look at me, you know. you know, type of people.

If you can see my pecs bouncing back and forth right now.

Well, you've got on that puffy jacket, who's gonna know? Anyway, um, but really it was not that big of a deal. No, I mean, 3 pieces, 2 people, we were able to pick them up, move them, and then from there we literally— the rest of it was just the base. We moved that in one piece. We could have taken the, the legs off But we didn't have to.

We didn't have to.

Yeah, I mean, that— the bottom was— the bottom piece was half the weight of one piece of slate.

Yeah.

And so that was super easy to move, put all on the back of his truck, which you— okay, you've got a, uh, a regular— you've got a quad cab pickup that's got a regular bed on it, which is 5.5 feet.

Yes.

At this stage, like a 6-foot bed.

Yeah.

Um, and you've got a toolbox on it. Yeah. So I mean, we, we fit everything back there easy, no issue. I mean, that we, we actually had the— we should have taken a picture— we had the, the actual base of the pool table hanging on the outside of the, right, of the, uh, tailgate, but we had it all strapped down. Everything was good.

Well, and the way— like, I, I watched a professional pool moving company, and I watched how they strapped it and moved it, and I was like, man, this looks exactly like how these guys did it. Yeah, it's easy. And so when we put the slate in the bed, we actually stacked it on top of one of— and they said part of the reason you do that is the weight of it actually helps stabilize it so that it doesn't crack and get damaged in transport. Yeah, they said, obviously don't go over major potholes or anything like that.

Although there's a major pothole on the way to your house right now. I know.

Yeah, there's a huge bottle, which we had to duck away from.

Yeah.

Um, but, you know, like, other than that, like, you know, he said, like, the weight of it should help stabilize it.

Sure.

And prevent any damage from happening. So, like, you— we didn't really have to put, like, any blankets down.

No, we didn't do any of that.

Anything in between the pieces of slate? Because a lot of people don't know that they're like— there's huge chunks of wood underneath a slate. And, and so what you're doing is you're putting wood on the bottom with slate on the top, and then you're coming back through and you're putting wood on top of that slate with another piece of slate, and then wood on top of that slate. And so the, the slate never actually touches anything other than the wood that it's been designed to sit up against, right? Which wood has a lot more give to it than, than that slate does.

Yeah, it does.

So it provides— that even provides an extra layer of cushion for that really expensive piece of rock.

Yeah, yeah. Um, and it really was— honestly, I didn't know what I was getting myself into.

Uh-huh. Well, neither one of us did.

No, we didn't. And the thing is, when I said, are you ready for an adventure? I— and I didn't know. Um, I knew it involved pizza and I was in. But, um, but I honestly, guys, I, I will tell you this right now. I, I would— if someone asked me to move a pool table, I would go, sure, let's do this. I would rather move a pool table than a piano any day.

Any day.

Any day.

Any day. I've moved a piano.

I don't want to do that again. I've got a piano, Craig. Sorry, I've got a piano. But, um, yeah, it was no big deal.

Yeah, well, and like with, with pianos, I mean, like just furniture dollies.

Oh yeah, yeah, furni— one, one furniture dolly and you can move a piano. You can move it.

Well, this— and yours is an upright, right?

Mine's an upright.

Yeah, I mean, like, those, they're not terribly hard to move. You just need a couple of guys in a—

they're heavy.

They're heavy. So I mean, that's really it.

Yeah.

So, and like, we— I've, I've shot a few hands on the, uh, the pool table in the— okay, in the shop now. Yeah, it was way easier to put together than it was to take apart.

I believe that.

I mean, but it only took us like 2 and a half hours.

It— did it take that long? I'm guessing it probably did, but I'm— again, over at least an hour of that was taking out staples.

Taking out staples.

But we didn't— if we would have started with that knife rather than starting the way we did, it would have taken less time. I, I think you're probably right.

Live and learn.

Live and learn. Yeah.

So, and like I had a, I had a pneumatic-powered staple gun in order to, to put it back together.

Yeah, but it was easy.

Took hardly any time at all.

Yeah.

So now I will say this, uh, you know, you, you can only restretch felt so many times, right? I get the sense this was the first time this felt was moved. Okay. So I, I think I lucked out on that one because otherwise I think I might have had to replace the felt.

Yeah.

Um, And, and that, that might not be super cheap.

That means— Honestly, I, I've replaced felt on a pool table. It was about $400. That was including labor.

That's not—

so honestly, now that we know how to, how to take apart the bumpers and everything, I, I, I need to watch some videos on how to replace the felt on the bumpers. It would— I mean, it would—

I can't imagine it's terribly difficult.

It's like, no, it's not that not that big of a deal.

Um, I just want to look into it because I, I don't know how time-consuming it is.

Yeah.

But I, I think it would be super cool if we could get a, uh, a pool table that had the, uh, the Homeowner Show logo in the middle.

Oh, or— oh, that and the light above. The light above? The light above. Yeah, the big bar light, right?

Yeah.

That's what we need.

That's what— yeah, yeah, why not?

Why not? Hey, if you know someone who can make that kind of thing Let us know.

Yeah, we would love to, like, promote the ever-living hell out of your business.

That's right. Don't think we wouldn't.

We will.

Uh, we will. So, yep.

Anyway, we moved a pool table.

We did. We did a thing. It was weird, but it was easier than we thought it would be.

Yeah.

And, and again, now that we know how to do it, it would be so much easier to do it a second time.

But don't call me to move your pool table.

No, no, not unless there's pizza involved.

Even then, it's got to be like, it's good. Pretty good pizza.

Good pizza. That was good pizza.

That was good pizza. I'm cool with learning something, but like, now I know something.

Yeah.

So it's got to be pretty good pizza.

Yeah. Because I mean, now it's, it's like an expertise thing, right? Right. Like, you're not just paying for my, my muscles now. You're paying for my brains.

Oh, yeah.

That, that's worth more. Yeah, it just is. I'm sorry. It just is. So maybe not your brain. It depends on whose brain. Yeah, brainless. But yeah, what else, man? Anything else?

I think that's it.

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