The carpetball table is complete and has even been used already! But not without some more hard graft! As I left it last post, we were about to fill the holes along the side and then we were 'about done' yeah right! We decided to use the offcuts from the ends of the table as reinforcing for the troughs, which was quite a pleasing use off the scraps!
And then added a support between each of the legs which, as it happened, were badly bowed inwards and needed a little persuasion from a car jack...
But it submitted in the end and will provide a lot of strength to the table as it is dragged around by campers! After a few touch ups with filler and sand paper, it was time to add a coat of varnish!
And then...the carpet could finally be laid! It was harder than I imagined and despite designing the table around the carpet tiles, there was still a fair amount of trimming and fitting to be done! We went through about 3 litres of contact adhesive and were seeing all sorts of wonderful things by the time we had finished! 
Then I added half rounds along the top edge, covering the edge of the carpet to stop kids picking at it, and with Shaun's routed edge it was all looking pretty nice! Another coat of varnish and it tied together very nicely!
As expected, it took 5 people to carry it to the upstairs hall (at least we don't need to worry about people stealing it in a hurry!) and of course, as soon as it was in place a carpetball tournament ensued....
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