You're right, I was obviously being very lazy at the time and didn't read the whole description 
You can get the right size here for less http://tinyurl.com/mhhfhzo I see they also do a range of snooker/dining tables, although I imagine you'd have to decide which you were going to do at any one time.
Right, here we go...a
full size (ie a proper size) snooker table measures in at 11 ft 8 and a half inches long by 5 ft 10 inches wide (which is 3.569 m x 1.778 m in kilometres, litres and kilobulbs).
Thanks for your new link, Heels, it gave some pretty impressive snooker tables...but me, being a dyed in the balk cushion purist, I prefer yer good old traditional English Classic snooker tables over your chromed up Miami Beach Tarty look .
But, that apart, the top price on your link is still a pretty hefty one...£8,995.00 (but as that's
'inc' VAT, that's OK).
However, while my eyelids were glued to the riveting snooker action from the Crucible earlier I
did manage to get a fleeting glimpse of a brand name on the side of the illustrious snooker table...I
think it said
Star Struck but it was a very swift camera swerve and I can't be sure.
Anyway I always thought that competition level snooker tables were exclusively made by a company called
Riley? Maybe
Star Struck is a sub-brand of Riley? Who knows?
Do
Riley still exclusively make and supply the Crucible's snooker tables still today?
The nearest to any cost ref that I can get is reading about someone who is selling a Riley table on the Net for three and a half grand...they are quoting the
'when new' price as having been a healthy
£12,500 .
Doesn't say how old the table is so that could easily've been £12,500 in the year dot.
Whether that £12,500 price was ex or inc VAT it doesn't say either...but I don't really care because I am only trying to find out a vaguely decent-ish ball-park figure for the cost of buying a respectable full-sized snooker table of quality so Mrs P-K and I can practice our back spins during the long summer evenings.
Any further ideas'd be most gratefully welcomed.