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Vacation Rental Homeowner's Tips

Welcome to our Vacation Rental Homeowner's Tips Page

  • 1) Always keep the pool table covered. This will give your table protection from when your guests place their luggage, car seats, toys, etc. on top of it. This will also protect it from dust when not in use. Pool table covers can be bought inexpensively on Amazon.

  • 2) I always suggest putting in your rental contract as well as up in the game room, “Do not eat, drink, sit on, or move the pool table; any damage done to the pool table will be the responsibility of the guest”.
  • • To give you an example of why I suggest this……. We recently set up and re-felted a pool table for a vacation rental owner in Daytona Beach, three days later he was calling us back to fix his table. The story was, as soon as we left, guests checked in, and the guests placed all their luggage on top of his newly refelted pool table, damaging the cloth. The table was also covered in beach sand and it was apparent a child spilled their juice all over it. Remember the cloth was only three days old! The only remedy was to replace the cloth at a cost of another $500!!! Even though the cloth we use is Teflon coated and resists most spills; if the spill isn’t immediately “dabbed” up, it will set into the cloth.

  • • The reason I suggest including “Do not move the pool table” is that we had a vacation rental homeowner call us because his guests decided to move his newly assembled table, a couple of feet over, and he thinks it might be damaged. The reason the guests moved the pool table? They didn’t want the pool table in their “family picture”. By moving the pool table, these guests caused over $450 in damage! We had to completely disassemble the pool table and replaced all the sheared-off bolts from the legs, the legs were literally hanging on by a hair. The table was deemed unsafe and the homeowner could not risk renting the home out. So not only did he lose money from the repair, he lost money from the potential rental. Also, by moving the pool table, it shifts the table off the shims, which we use to make the pool table level.

  • 3) After your guests check out have the property manager or housekeeping do a walk around the table; have them look for any damage or evidence of use. If there is evidence that the table was used, go over it with a lint roller.

  • 4) Do not use hand chalk, talc, or baby powder; the chalk will accumulate over time under the cloth and subsequently ruin it. Within a matter of time, your cloth will turn "milky white" and lose the vibrant color it had when it was new.

  • 5) Once a month, vacuum the cloth using a round 3” bristle brush attachment. Do not place the vacuum directly on the table. Do not use Dirt Devils or portable hand-held vacuums; only a round 3” bristle brush attachment.
  • 6) Only use the chalk that comes with your new cloth. Never use different color chalk than what your pool table is refelted in. When you run out, you can contact Mueller's Billiards and Darts and order new chalk that matches your cloth. Search term "chalk" www.muellers.com
  • 7) Make sure all your cue sticks have tips on them. A cue stick without a tip will rip/tear your cloth; rips and tears are irreparable.

  • 8) Once a month, go over the table with furniture polish. We suggest either Old English or Orange Glo in order to give it a beautiful luster. Do not spray or apply the polish directly to the table, use it indirectly by putting it on a cloth first. At this time I would also suggest using a touch-up mark to touch up any scratches, dings, or dents. (Rejuvenate Exact Match stain markers are what I recommend)

  • 9) If your table has leather pockets, once a month use leather conditioner to keep them soft and to prevent them from hardening up. Remove dust and debris from all pockets.

  • 10) Once a month, check the balls for any damage. Balls can chip easily if dropped onto the floor. A chipped ball can damage your cloth. After checking the balls for damage, wipe the balls down with a damp cloth. If possible, use only high-quality phenolic pool balls. High-quality pool balls such as Aramith will prevent your cloth from having "ball burns" or white spots. Those white marks are called "ball burns". From the first games, you will notice that some small, usually white dots appear on the billiard cloth. Do not worry, it’s normal, they are called micro-burns or ball burns. These ball burns are actually marks that remain on the fabric as a result of the degradation of the surface of the ball. Hitting a cue ball actually accelerates it from 0 to over 30 km/h (20 MPH) in just a fraction of a second. The resulting friction temperature between the ball and the cloth can easily reach 250°c (482°F).