I had the guys at the Billiard Gallery move my table, put on new rails and re-felt the table.
Upon first glance it all seemed fine. I tipped both the installers as I was impressed with how quickly they were able to get everything done.
After playing on the table I noticed a few problems, the spacing on the rails weren't even, there were varying gaps where they would meet up, there were also gaps on some of the rails where they met up with the table. It also felt like there were particles under the felt in a couple of spots. And then of course the table settled and it was no longer true, it would drift to one side.
I had them come back out, and showed them the number of different issues I was noticing with my install. I kid you not, the installer said in his words exactly "how are you noticing all of this stuff?"....
My concern wasn't that I was noticing all of this stuff, but that it went completely unnoticed by you, the "professional". He then continued to go around the table and pointing out different things saying it was basically the "table's fault". Saying that the rails weren't meeting up with the slate perfectly because they had warped... Granted the table is older, but the rails were not warped before they moved it. They said the particles were because it was the cheaper felt, and if you don't want that you have to pay more. The only thing he did say I was correct about was the table no longer being level. They fixed that, and left immediately. The installer's overall tone was that he seemed bothered by being there.
Now as I mentioned the table never had any issues with being warped in any way before... after he left and I decided to crawl under the table and inspect further I found that 2 different rails were missing 1 of the 3 nuts used to clamp them to the table..
I called them and was offered no further assistance, in fact Rick just seemed to quickly try to jump on board with defending his installer before even letting me finish telling him bolts were missing on my table.
This was absolutely terrible work, I am very dissatisfied considering this was not a cheap process. This is something they do every day, it's a precise line of work. If you don't do a good job, your comment shouldn't be "how are you noticing this stuff?".
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