How to find an installer to set up your shuffleboard table?

We offer the service of contracting out the delivery and installation of your shuffleboard table. Why does this service cost more than many e-commerce websites that advertise less expensive white glove services? Often, they are using the same per-weight calculations they may use with other furniture or other items that they sell. They also could have some profit margin built into the retail markup and can absorb some of that cost.

Because McClure Tables is a manufacturer, not a retailer, and we sell wholesale to the public. Two factors contribute to our higher cost of ordering the setup and installation service. One is because we sell wholesale, and often, the company we are contracting out to do the installation is a retailer that sells other brands of shuffleboard tables. We do not sell to retail dealers, and our prices with discounted shipping are what local retail stores cost for a Brunswick, Olhausen, or Championship shuffleboard table. He is losing the retail sale and markup to us and wants to charge a premium price to compensate for the loss of the retail markup or lost sale. Sometimes, it is because we use contractors who don’t have retail stores but may have to travel a great distance. We stay pretty busy with production and sales management. The time to make phone calls and search for an installation company is a service we must charge a fee to provide.

One solution, however, is to do the leg work yourself. You can go to Google Maps and search in your area for a billard service company, home delivery services, or moving and storage companies.

Setting up a shuffleboard table is not technical and not that difficult. Don’t let the local internet retailer fool you with his sales pitch that his team is an expert at setting up game tables. Their delivery people are highly skilled with pool tables but not shuffleboards. Shuffleboard Tables are a very specialized game, and they are not so critical on the level of the table and are not supposed to be set up perfectly level. The cabinet is supposed to be high on both ends with a sway in the Shuffleboard table, so pucks are going slightly uphill on each end of the game board. See our post here on how to set up a shuffleboard table for some tips and advice. If you look at the videos at the bottom of that page, I don’t think you will find setting up a shuffleboard table is that difficult. Primarily, you need the human resources to do the heavy lifting.