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How to Clean and Wax a Shuffleboard Table

Shuffleboard tables make great additions to homes. They’re fun to play and easy to maintain, demanding only a few minutes a month for waxing and polishing. Putting this time aside can improve performance and increase the table’s lifespan, so make it a priority. How often you clean, however, depends on usage. At

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What Types of Billiard Balls Can You Buy?

You can play an assortment of games on your billiards table with different balls and rules. The colour and diameter change most often, though some games call for different weights. The hardness (density) and polish (friction) affect playability, too. These properties can alter accuracy, reflectivity,

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Are You Brushing Your Pool Table Often Enough?

To prolong the life of the felt on your pool table, you should brush after every session. Doing so keeps chalk from settling and damaging the fabric. In fact, if untreated, it can change the table’s roughness and alter the cue ball’s path.

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How Big a Room Do You Need For a Billiards Table?

Billiard tables make beautiful additions to homes. Adjacent to bars and rec areas, they can enliven basements and living rooms. Unfortunately, they also take up considerable space: regulation tables start at 9ft by 4.5ft. Thankfully, you can now buy tables at various widths and heights.

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Building a Patio or Deck?

Tips before you design your patio or deck Look at the options for outdoor furniture. Wicker, wood, metal, cast aluminum or other. Dining or deep seating. The style you decide will determine how big or small you make your patio area. Don’t forget fireplaces, outdoor

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What’s Ceramic Barbecuing?

This latest craze in barbecuing has been sweeping the US and has now taken Canada by storm. What is it? A ceramic cooker is ideal for all types of cooking. A charcoal fire is made in a large enclosed ceramic oven where the heat is

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Trends in Patio Furniture

Thirty years ago most Canadians had a wooden picnic table with attached benches in their backyards and nothing else (except the Sears metal shed of course!). Today people are spending thousands to buy dining sets for outside meals and wicker and other deep seating sets

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