Pool and Snooker Table Delivery Across the UK

A snooker table arrives as a frame, three slabs of slate and a collection of legs and cushions, and it does not become a table until a fitter has spent hours levelling it. Anyone offering to deliver one assembled has not moved one.

T&C Logistics delivers for pool and snooker table suppliers, leisure trade distributors and venues. Companies House records over 310 active UK companies in pool, snooker and billiards. We have run heavy two-person transport since 2020 with more than 3,000 vetted driver-partners nationwide. Quotes from £50 (ex VAT), quoted in full upfront before you book.

How heavy is a table?

Heavier than almost anything else that goes into a domestic room, and the weight is concentrated in the slate.

Slate is also brittle. A section dropped on a corner cracks, and a cracked slate is scrap rather than a repair — which is why they travel individually crated or padded rather than stacked.

Do you assemble and level the table?

No. Assembling and levelling a slate-bed table is skilled work, and a table that is not level is a table that plays wrong in a way every user notices immediately.

The fitter beds the slate, levels it across multiple axes, seams the joints, fits and stretches the cloth and sets the cushions. That is hours of work by someone who does it regularly.

What we contribute is getting the sections to the room in one piece and in the right order, which is genuinely the hard part of the transport and about half of what goes wrong.

Where is the room?

That is the question that decides the job, and it needs answering before a vehicle is booked. Tables go into cellars, first-floor games rooms, pub upstairs bars and outbuildings.

Stairs are the constraint rather than distance. A 90 kilogram slate section down a cellar stair with a turn in it is a genuine planning exercise, and some routes simply do not work.

Doorway width and the diagonal are the second question. A table frame is wider than most internal doors, and whether it goes through depends on the diagonal and whether the door can come off its hinges.

Does floor loading matter?

For upper floors, yes, and it is a real consideration rather than a caution. A full size snooker table concentrates most of a tonne over a small footprint.

Domestic upper floors are not designed for that, and a table installed on one without the loading being considered is a structural question somebody should have asked.

That is the customer's and the supplier's assessment rather than ours, but it is worth raising before delivery rather than after. We will carry it upstairs where the route works and the loading has been considered.

How is the cloth protected?

By keeping it away from everything. Table cloth is a napped woollen fabric that snags, marks and takes impressions, and it usually travels separately from the table it belongs to.

On a recovering job the cloth is the whole point, and a roll that has been creased or dirtied in transit shows on a finished table under playing lights.

Cushion rails are the other finished surface. They are long, veneered or upholstered, and they mark against slate or metal — so they travel padded and separated rather than in the same stack.

Do you collect old tables?

Yes, and it is a common part of a replacement. A pub or a home taking a new table needs the old one out first, frequently on the same visit.

Dismantling is again the fitter's work rather than ours. A table that has been taken apart properly moves as sections; one that somebody attacked with a crowbar is a different proposition entirely.

Old slate is inert waste and the frame is timber, both with their own destinations. We hold Environment Agency upper tier registration CBDU654368 as a waste carrier, broker and dealer.

Who are the customers?

Table suppliers and manufacturers, leisure trade distributors, pubs and clubs, holiday parks and private homes — with the venue trade producing the repeat volume.

Pub and club work runs to refurbishment cycles and has its own access reality: a cellar bar, a fire exit route, and a delivery window outside trading.

Domestic delivery is the more careful job. A table going into a family home is a high-value item in a finished room, and everything it passes on the way in is somebody's decorating.

What should be checked before booking?

Four things, and they take five minutes: the room location, the narrowest point on the route, the doorway diagonal and whether the floor is ground level.

Slate section weight is fixed and known, so the only real variables are the route and the crew. A route that works turns a hard job into a straightforward one.

Photographs of the access are worth more than a description. A customer who sends a picture of the stairwell gets an accurate quote; one who says "there are a few steps" does not.

Do you deliver American pool and bar tables?

Yes, and they are the volume end of the trade. Coin-operated bar tables and American pool tables move constantly between venues, operators and sites.

Operator work is repeat business with its own rhythm: tables swapped between pubs, recovered, and moved when a venue changes hands or refurbishes.

These are still slate-bed tables in most cases, so the weight and handling are unchanged even though the setting is commercial rather than domestic.

What about table tennis, air hockey and games tables?

Lighter but bulkier, and frequently more awkward to get through a door than a pool table. A folded table tennis table is a large flat object with wheels that are useless on stairs.

Air hockey and arcade-style tables contain electronics and blowers, which makes them equipment as well as furniture and means they should not be laid on their playing surface.

Games rooms are the destination and they are usually not on the ground floor, which brings the same access questions with a lighter but more unwieldy item. See our arcade machine transport service.

Can you deliver on a refurbishment programme?

Yes, and venue refurbishments are where the timing matters. A pub reopening on a stated date has a table delivery and a fitter booked into a sequence with everything else.

Delivering before flooring is finished is as unhelpful as delivering after opening. A table cannot be sited on a floor that is still being laid, and it cannot be levelled twice economically.

That makes the delivery date part of a programme rather than a convenience, and a slipped programme frequently means a rebooked fitter as well as a rebooked vehicle. See our shopfitting delivery service.

How is slate protected in transit?

Individually, on edge or flat and fully supported, with the faces protected and nothing bearing on a corner. Slate is strong in compression and unforgiving of point loads.

The bed face matters as much as the edges. A slate bed is machined flat and any damage to that surface transfers into the cloth and the roll of the ball once it is fitted.

Sections also have to stay together as a set. Three slates cut for one table are matched to each other, and a replacement section from another table will not seam correctly.

Do you deliver dartboards, cues and accessories?

Yes, and they are the light trade alongside the tables. Cues, cases, balls, chalk, scoreboards and dartboards go to the same venues and shops on a far more frequent cycle.

Cues are the item worth care: a two-piece cue is straight, balanced and easily warped, and a bent cue is worthless to a player who notices immediately.

Accessory rounds are what make a supplier's relationship with venues continuous rather than occasional. See our gym equipment transport service.

Scoreboards, lighting and cue racks complete a games room and they are wall-mounted items rather than freestanding ones, which makes them a fitter's job once delivered. Pub lighting over a table in particular is specified for playing conditions rather than for decoration. See our AV equipment transport service.

What does pool table delivery cost?

One fixed price per job, quoted upfront with fuel and goods-in-transit insurance included.

From £50 (ex VAT). Final price depends on distance, vehicle, urgency and time — quoted in full upfront. Related: gym equipment transport and furniture transport. Call 0121 720 3841 or use our contact page.