A snooker or pool room is a recreation room, such as in a house or recreation center, with a billiards, pool or snooker table. A one-table billiard room requires enough space around the table to accommodate the range of a stroke of the cue from all angles, while also accounting for chairs, the storage rack and any other furniture that is or will be present. Optimally, there should be at least 6 ft (1.8 m) of clearance between the table and any walls, furniture or other objects, on all sides and at all corners of the table.
Lighting is important to the design of a billiards room. Billiard rooms need overhead lighting, and a multi-bulb light fixture specifically designed for illuminating a billiard table is most often used. Such fixtures are available in both incandescent and fluorescent models, and range from crude to highly ornate and you can place one just about anywhere with one of the top-rated cordless drills. Billiard rooms with windows usually employ curtains or blinds during daytime use, to prevent excessive glare.
When designing a billiard room you have endless options. Everything depends on your desire and your home decor. Every color looks great if you use it right.
Opening a New Snooker Club
Finding Premises
When considering opening a new snooker club, firstly, you really need to find a premise that ticks as many boxes as possible with the least amount of effort, why not consider some of the following:
- Location
- When opening a new snooker club, it must be somewhere that is easily accessible
- Snooker clubs close to town centre’s will attract people later at night
- Existing Building’s
- Function room to provide some addition income
- Is there potential expansion into other areas of the building if possible
- A lounge area so people can watch tv and have a chat away from the snooker room
- Hopefully you will have a waiting list for tables so the customers can wait here
- Either an old snooker club or a cinema would be a popular choice and a lot easier to convert
- Choose a building that already has parking for your visitors or this will be a problem
Advertising Your New Snooker Club
- Create a Snooker Club Facebook page to keep everyone up to date
- Ensure you start a Facebook page well in advance of the opening date so you can build traffic and update potential customers on progress
- Create a ‘Google my business’ page and a Google plus page as these are free
- Only start a website if you can do this with reasonable costs to start with
- Create a poster and place it in every hall, club and community centre in the immediate area
- When opening a new snooker club, you must get it in the local newspaper
- Take out an advert on the local leagues home page for a period of time
- Buy those plastic 4×2 posters with your club details on and tie it to the railings of the busiest roundabout (they are cheap). Always put them on with those electrical tie tags as they are very difficult get off by any idiots!
- Approach all local companies with bulk membership discount rates
- Approach larger local companies to have an events evening using all the facilities
- Ensure that when someone types in your town and snooker club that you are all over the top results!
- Register your snooker club in as many directories as you can. Directories mostly have a free listing so don’t pay anyone as you don’t need to. Here’s an example of 30 free listings – click here – They may ring you to confirm details and upgrade you but don’t sign up for upgrades as you don’t need to.
