Pool Table Movers in Los Angeles — Disassembly, Slate Care, Re-Leveling

Why pool tables are never a "just carry it" job

A slate pool table weighs 700–1,000 lbs, and the slates — the part that makes it play true — crack if flexed and chip if bumped. The only correct method: rails and felt off, slates out (usually three pieces at 150–250 lbs each), legs and frame separated, everything padded and transported flat. At the destination it reassembles in reverse, finishing with machine-level re-leveling and, if needed, new felt.

Pool table moving prices (2026)

Moved with your household or alone

As part of a full household move, the pool table adds a reduced flat fee to your hourly move — the crew and truck are already there. Stand-alone table moves (bought one on Marketplace, garage-to-garage) run as their own flat-price job, usually completed in 3–4 hours door to door.

Why a slate table has to come apart

A slate pool table is not one object. It is a frame, a set of legs, three separate slabs of slate bolted to that frame, and a cloth stretched over them. Published weights run roughly 500–700 lb for a 7-foot table, 600–800 lb for an 8-foot, and 800–1,200 lb for a 9-foot, and the great majority of that is the slate.

People ask every week whether the table can be moved in one piece to save money. On a genuine slate table the answer is no, and not because of the weight. Slate is strong in compression and brittle in flex: tilt a bolted-together table to get it through a doorway and the frame twists, the slate takes the load at its seams, and a hairline crack you cannot see becomes a roll that drifts left for the rest of the table's life. Moving it whole is how tables die.

So the job is: cloth off, pockets and rails off, slate unbolted and carried out as individual slabs, frame and legs broken down, everything padded and loaded — then the reverse at the other end, finishing with the slate shimmed level and the seams waxed. Best Movers LA quotes the disassembly and the reassembly as one flat price, because half a pool table move is not a service.

The part nobody mentions: the cloth and the level

Two things change on every pool table move, and a quote that ignores them is not a real quote.

The cloth is stapled or glued under tension. It can often be lifted and reused if it is in good condition and was fitted recently, but older cloth that has been stretched for years frequently will not go back without ripples, and a torn edge at the pocket is common on removal. Decide before move day whether you want it re-covered while the table is apart — it is the cheapest time to do it, because the table is already in pieces.

The level matters more. A pool table is levelled to its room, not to the factory, and no two floors in Los Angeles are the same — the older housing stock in Highland Park, Pasadena and the Valley almost guarantees a floor that is out by a few millimetres across the length of the table. Reassembly finishes with shims under the frame and a machinist's level across the slate seams until a ball rolled slowly across the bed holds its line. That is the step that decides whether the table plays, and it is why the last hour of a pool table move looks like nothing is happening.

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