Home Bowling Alley Installation Process
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- Fusion Bowling specializes in bowling alley installation for small, private projects (1 to 4 lanes) in homes and multifamily amenities throughout the USA. We use new, state-of-the-art commercial-grade equipment from the best brands, starting with Brunswick - the top manufacturer in the bowling equipment industry.
Check out www.FusionBowling.com for home bowling alley prices, photo galleries, and resources for planning and designing your home bowling alley. Call (904) 705-2695 or email hello@fusionbowling.com.
The home bowling alley shown in the video was installed in a residence in Florida, and included:
Commercial synthetic lane panels in custom wood-grain color.
Internet-connected Brunswick SYNC scoring system.
Touchscreen controls.
Samsung commercial displays.
Brunswick GS-X pinsetter machines.
Lane foundation with TJI joists and LSL underlayment.
Under-lane ball return.
Guest bowling balls, custom made to the homeowner's specs.
Pins, custom made to the homeowner's specs.
Rental-style guest bowling shoes.
Lane maintenance kit.
2:51 that noise your stomach makes when it’s really really quiet
True 😂😂😂
right as i read this my stomach goes crazy
That’s great
Dude I sat next to the hottest chick in school in the class just before lunch, and I never had a good breakfast, and my stomach would just be going insane. She would shoot me the dirtiest looks ever, maybe because she was self conscious people might thing it was her... I wanted to die.
ÆRational lmao i didn’t realize how many likes this comment had gotten until you responded lol! i didn’t think people would think it was that funny 😂 but wow man i feel you on that story about the girl
That music had me expecting a pizza delivery guy to show up at my step-sister's house.
And topped with a big sausage
@@ChadBray Yes. That was the joke.
@@cwg73160 yeah I know. I just added to the joke.
@@ChadBray Yeah I know. I was trying to say stop without saying stop.
@@cwg73160 stop what?
Damn! Those pins looked funky as hell without their stripes.
They said * Pins, custom made to the homeowner's specs. I'd have my name put on them
They dont even look real i would have to get amf pins
They are white because they got the "cheapo" setup. $139,300
@@gblan as a person who doesn’t understand how much lanes are worth, that doesn’t seem very “cheapo” lol.
I would want 4 lanes because I have a family of 6. My family would love to bowl 3v3 and have the 2 extra lanes for like friends and that. I would typically use house pattern because I just want to have fun.
I’ve been working at aiea bowl for the past 2 years. Starting at front desk, going to mechanic and now I’m a manager. I’ve always wanted to see lanes being built. This is very satisfying
Also one very hard job on the body. I've been a heavy metal fabricator for almost a decade and am close friends with local bowling alley owner so I help with all machine and lane issues. We have installed 10 lanes of synthetics from wood I've worked on a ton of machines helped put gutter and bumpers in and ball returns. And I'm here to tell you that's been harder work than any work as a welder I do most days
Cool, I love it there
Tyler Stine yeah a lot of people don’t really understand the amount of pain and labor a bowling alley mechanic has to deal with. Like yeah there’s a lot harder jobs. But the amount of endurance a mechanic has to go through is crazy. But I love it lol
Any chance Aiea will switch to full synthetic lanes? Just kidding, I could go to almost any other alley on O’ahu for that!
TXP9 I can tell you there is talk about going full synthetic. But there’s a lot of behind the scene stuff that needs to happen first before that happens
I rented rented an air-bnb for the weekend it was summer time 2016 in central Michigan. The guy had 2 Brunswick A2 Machines, wood lanes with lacquer surface we are talking old school style bowling. That host also had a framed signed autograph picture of Mark Roth and Marshall Holman on the wall playing doubles in a tournament. This was about 8 years ago near battle creek MI out in the woods. As a huge bowling fan and growing up in the late 70s early 80s, this air-bnb rental puts a very special place in my heart. For 2 nights the price was around 592 dollars, I think this was an excellent deal. A similar rental in Vegas with 2 Lanes would probably cost you 3-5 times more just for 1 night.
kind of expected people who would install a bowling alley in their house to be better bowlers
@@devinmartyne , sure they did. I wonder how many lessons they've taken from a pro at their local alley? How many beginner leagues? From the looks of it... None. They just have money to burn.
i feel like everyone that has lanes installed in their house are just regular house bowlers, but just so rich that theyd rather build it in their house than go mingle with the plebs. like i've never seen someone have their own gear, or hell even oil the lanes
@@brimmed The bottom line is that for every person super-serious about bowling, there are plenty of recreational just-for-fun bowlers who don't care about all the stuff the serious people care about. Some of them have a lot of money. But there ARE serious guys like Mookie Betts who have the money and have lanes in their house. Shrug.
The only thing I’d expect from someone who has a bowling alley in their house is that they are rich af
The fact that they chose Brunswick, white pins and bumpers tells you everything you need to know.
Hey y’all wanna go bowling?
Sure, where at?
My house.
Imagine having a party and people don’t know and when they ask where to bowl you just tell them to follow you to the other room
@@SuperT Ahahahahahahahahaha
@SuperT That’s exactly what I would do lol.
Thats right...Haha
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I love how were all watching this going, "Yup, just yer' standard installation of a home bowling alley" like that's normal.
If we think home bowling alleys are normal we will all feel like losers and be easier to manipulate.
@@mrsomebody5087 i am more into a backyard trap shooting set up.
As an avid bowler I understand how some of you are upset these people are using house balls/shoes but I just looked at their website and the company gives you free equipment with the purchase of the lanes. So maybe it just got installed and they haven't bowled enough to actually buy a proper ball/shoes. Or they just rich as hell and don't care?
I guess they also just bought bowling lanes so they could bowl without socks.
It's not exactly "free." They have three categories of installs. Plain Jane, Mr. Popular, and Rock Star. Obviously, plain jane has the fewest options.
That is probably the case
People making those comments can't even afford a bowling lane in their house.
It says in the video description they got shoes and balls for guests.
why have an alley built if your just going to use house gear?
Because he can!!!
I agree, major money for the custom built bowling alley however you use house balls, WTF.
I can understand if you have these for friends that come over who don't bowl.....it makes sense.....but, for me, no. But, it's there money.
Just rich fucks, they dont even have a oil machine
brett robbins probably didn’t even know that there was an oil machine lol.
When I saw Festool being used I knew these guys take the quality of fit and finish seriously. Great job!
I worked at a bowling alley for 6 years. Just recently resigned because of better opportunity but didn’t work out. I was the head mechanic for 3 of those years. We had the same GSX machines and I know them like the back of my hand. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a pair installed anywhere. None of us mechanics got a proper training except when I trained people, I trained them how we should have been trained, every detail, pictures of part blow outs, machine blow outs, belts, every little thing just to make sure my employees knew everything I knew. And so they didn’t get hurt or anything, that is the very very very last thing I wanted. I don’t boast about myself or talk about myself in any way usually but I will say I was the best damn employee in that building, and mechanic. Building maintenance, I will say some of those machines problems were such a pain in the ass but I would rather work on these instead of the 8200’s machines.
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali
Those pins totally ruined it for me
why? what's wrong with them?
@@benxvariety8878 If I was going to spend a colossal amount of money on an installation like this i'd want pins with AMF stripes or the Brunswick crown. These pins look too generic like toys. Hard to tell if they are even the standard size and weight
@@lycrags who cares about the design of the pins? You have a home bowling alley. Just pick up a ball and go
@@lycrags actually the best way is to actually pick up a pin, weigh it and test the sound that it would make when it falls. AMF and Brunswick bowling pins are mostly solid wood while twister pins are a solid synthetic and sound like plastic.
@@benxvariety8878 also don't just pick up any ball, use an actual ball drilled for real bowling not a house ball
If i had one at my house i’d get an above ground ball return, just cuz i think it looks cool or a clear top to the return with lights. That would be the coolest thing in my opinion.
U going old school
Check the gallery pics on their website. they definitely do some refurbished old-school installs.
I will
I wish I had enough money to buy myself bowling lanes for my house lol
(Didn't expect so many comments, please leave me alone lol)
Don't we all
Make more money.
@@hityourchin Thank you for your ever so helpful advice :p
@@IamNess64 You are welcome.
Same BRÜTHER
I installed a ping pong table in my house. Loads of fun. $299 plus tax.
OK moneybags, I installed one of those travel ping pong nets onto my dining room table, $9.99 plus tax.
@@lysergicpillamyd483 "Dining room"? Must be nice to live in a mansion. Around here we just have a used ping pong ball we have to share with the cat.
@@BobWiersema "Ping pong ball"? Must be nice to be filthy rich. Out here we have to use a homemade hacky sack filled with dirt and PRETEND its bouncing
@@colordeaff Hacky sack? You must be doing well for yourself. We just use our cat's dead head. Makes a terrible mess, but we lick up the blood for protein.
You guys have internet?
I visited their website to check my hunch about the pin-setting machine, it requires 3 phase electric power . Which is common for commercial installations like a bowling alley, however very seldom in a residential home. Thus a solid state phase converter is installed, for additional "hot conductor" Some homes do have 3 phase in areas with larger commercial A/C units or farms where a lot of motors are used.
You can have a phase converter installed (they make both solid state and rotary versions) but you may need to hire an electrician that does Industrial work, so he knows exactly what he's doing.
Alternately you could replace the 3 phase motors with single phase.
$141k for 2 lanes really isn't that bad.
Wondering if the wife will be good with my turning the down stairs into a 2 lane bowling center....
She hates the local lanes and we bowl every weekend..... This would be a great investment.
Rt as much money i spent on bowling balls and equipment and different tournaments across the country I might be halfway there
How were you able to find out how much it cost? In my lottery dreams!!
@bettyjanescraftroom call and get a Estimate
@@bettyjanescraftroom Add on another 100K for an AMF install. I service home centers.
🧢
This year we see the installation process. And next year we'll see the uninstallation process.
Ahahahahahahahahaha
Don’t agree
Lol
More like next week
I'd save up to have a small house with a 2 lane alley if i could. Would throw real balls and actually oil the lanes.
Don M The oiling machines can cost $50,000+ alone
BLITZ With only two lanes, I would hand oil it
This company has 2 lane packages that run from $120,000 to $140,000 depending on the options. Yikes!!!!
Glen England
I’m passionate about bowling someday I will do the same it doesn’t matter what the price is me and my family will have a lot of fun and good memories money will come and go but memories will last forever with your family
Glen England Honestly, I looked at the cheaper ones and viewed it as an expensive car, and the more expensive ones as a house. The only time it really gets expensive beyond belief is for four lanes. Two lanes should be enough for most people.
Speaking from the UK, where bowling is a very minor pastime (I have no idea where my nearest bowling alley might be) I love the idea that this is even a thing, let alone that there is enough demand to make a business out of it!
I’d assume most their business consists of maintenance, and I guess they also offer large alleys for public spaces.
I had my birthday party at the bowling alley when I was a kid and they gave a me a free bowling pin. My goal was to have it there 10 years in a row to have a full set and build my own lane at home.
You can buy used sets for 10-20 bucks when they get changed out. That new birthday bowling pin is sold at quite a premium
@@WCGwkfwait fr? You can ask for a full set at your local alley?
You know your life is made when you get a bowling alley installed in your house
I hope my neighbors don't mind that the lane has to go through their living room.
😂
I live in Japan. Building that would require 1/3 of the property that my house sits on, and 1/3 at the property for each of the four adjacent houses.
It would be SOOOO cool to have your own private bowling 🎳 alley
It would be $50000 cool to have your own private bowling 🎳 alley
I was so relieved to see this was actual real bowling and not the silly pins with strings.
Having your own lanes at home would give a new meaning to being called a "house bowler".
U would have a real house shot
I would love to have that installed at home so I could practice any time I want
If I had a bunch of money I would have a big house built. The first floor will be for living, second floor a bowling alley, third floor a basketball court/Gym I would also have an arcade room built. I would never leave that kind of house.
I am an avid bowler; (199 - 200 average). I would utilize those lanes EVERYDAY of my life. I'd have friends and all over there....gotta share the wealth.
Imagine installing bowling lanes in your house and not even know how to bowl😂😂😂
Ikr lol
Maybe that is why they installed them. to practice and get better slappy.
Throw rock and sticks, repeat.
Well that will be fun for 3 days 😩🤣🤣🤣
Yea daughter back on the phone all day cant get the son off the ps4
Exactly, that's why, in reality most people don't have things like this installed because it's nothing more than a novelty.
Thinking the same. The only fun of bowling for most people is getting out of the house and people watching. It doesn't look like any of those people will be joining the tour or need to. Reminds me of that movie "there will be blood" where the oil tycoon beats his son to death with the bowling pin in the basement alley. But it helps the economy, so build a few more lanes.
Good to see fusion on youtube....
Holy shit these guys are having the best quarantine time of their lives
(This was written during the COVID-19 outbreak)
If I become rich when I'm older, you bet I'm building a bowling alley in my basement.
I will will help you so I can come over and bowl with you Lol 😂
I want to see how you get the pin setter down the stairs
@@idahospyder1620 That was my first thought as well. You have to be able to drive a forklift to where the pin setter goes.
@@idahospyder1620 you set up the alley first and then build the house around it.
I love the enormous amount of repeated questions in the comments that are easily answered simply by going to their website.
At least they had real pinsetters installed instead of those awful string machines.
They do a little bait and switch on the website, unfortunately. The prominent displayed price includes string pinsetters, then you read further and if you want the freefall pinsetters (which everyone does), it'll cost more.
Ah, boo. I've never played five-pin, but they really only look feasible for that game. Somehow the Germans (and whoever else plays ninepins) make it work with that, but the rules of the game seem to accommodate those readily.
@@peteg475 costs doesn’t matter, what matters for us experienced bowlers is the authentic experience of seeing pins flying and spinning freely.
@@PinoyBowlerGS92 Correct. I don't consider string pins "real" bowling.
That family needs some serious lessons. Holy crap O_O
This is my literal dream. I think about this everyday.
Rich kids in their natural habitat
Yep
I need to get me a pair of lanes built so I can practice whenever I want
This would be great to have at my house except someone else just keeps drinking up my milkshake
Underappreciated comment
If I had 2 Lanes in my house, No Casuals are stepping on, just Leagues and Pros.
Brunswick has always been my favorite lanes equipment. I always bowled better on Brunswick than on amf.
Love the way a hand reaches for size 15 shoes and then it cuts to the mom putting shoes on. Lol. Seriously though, if that's a real family, and that is how they play, they'll get bored of bowling in a week and then hardly ever use the lanes again. If I had all the money in the world, I wouldn't install lanes at my home - kind of lame, kind of sad. I always like going out to bowl.
I might turn my down stairs into a 2 lane bowling center lol
We bowl with friends every week and my wife and I both both. Plus we hate all of the local lanes because of the noise and half the time the equipment is aged and garbage.
@@spydergs07 I think that's why bowling gets a bad rep. Most of the time is spent waiting for an employee to reset the lane because something stopped working. The old decor and crappy claw machine doesn't help.
Happy to see they don’t install string pinsetters. All white pins look odd.
In all fairness, its cool to see a family install a pair of bowling lanes in the house just for family recreation and entertainment even though they dont appear to be avid serious bowlers, but good grief! Those pins need some ink on them! LOL
Me: I can afford my own bowling ally?!
*Construction crew rolls up to large mansion*
Me: Nevermind.
We finally get to see what a brand new GSX pinsetter looks like
I work for sharpless and son in Pennsylvania. I travel the whole north east doing the same exact work. We also sand and recoat lanes as well
Awesome... it's a shame that I couldn't buy some old bowling alleys around certain Great Lakes/Midwest cities and retool them as training facilities for school and professional bowlers and bowling teams.
Looks like the room where the Preacher gets murdered in the movie " There will be blood " . Very cool . Cheers
Where is the oil machine?! If I had my own lanes, I'd have a Kegel machine in my house
They're probably gonna use this a Max of 3 times
Vision exactly
If i had lanes in my house i would literally camp at those mfs lol. But it just all depends how into bowling the person is whos getting the lanes in their house which unless you’re really fucking rich, im assuming most casual bowlers wouldnt get lanes in their house lol
I knew this would be expensive, but damn. If I win the lottery, I'd totally get one.
That install is probably worth more than my condo.
Where's Ish and Munson?
Underrated comment. Although i feel maybe only bowlers will recognize and respect this comment.
Goldi thank you.
Kids: can we go bowling?
Mom: we have bowling at home
Kids: _touché_
Ughhhh I need this to practice
If I had two bowling lanes in my basement... I’d live down there!
This is my dream
Must be nice being able to drop 150k+ for a private two lane alley in your home. One of my dreams would be to outfit a long style shed into a miniature bowling alley with 2 to 4 lanes for when we have family events and such.
"Ah, dear? You know the living room ensemble you told me to get? Well, about that..."
Now this is more relevant, since everyone is stuck inside.
So cool!
If I was rich enough to have a home bowling alley I personally would just buy the warehouse and the forklifts instead . much more fun for me to operate a skid loader than go bowling in my own house
i wonder start to finish how long this took
All these comments criticizing how the homeowners are using it are cracking me up. Like this is something everyone has.
Everyone here talking about "winning the lottery". Just work harder. Try that. Boom, bowling alley.
Very awesome!!! Please make more such videos, very interesting stuff!!!
Whats your favorite pinsetter mine is AMF
@@aydengaines3924 well actually i was always fascinated by the brunswick pinsetters, especially the gsx... but now the gs next pinsetter is a new way, mixing amf and brunswick components ;)
I need a bowling alley in my garage! I also have a gym in there. So I should move the gym
now I'm curious about the uninstallation process.
Play it in reverse.
@@danielblaise156 😂😂
Why would u uninstall it
You need administrator/superuser privileges to do so.
@@swiftstar8d923 because it's a bowling alley in your house? I dunno
Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.
I remember when I was little it seemed like having a bowling alley in your house would the peak of luxury, now it just seems weird lol
Plastic bowling balls make me crazy...no alley grip,lack of hook control, funky colors. Crazy as it may sound I will never give up my 40+ year old Brunswick Black Diamond rubber ball,good control, great hook,goes where you want it to.
I am jealous
Me too!
need to grow a big dirty 70's moustache after this video
Need to have that size of a house first though lol
Once I win the lottery and move out of crazy California I'm buying a house out of state and having one of these installed.
Where’s the oil machine. I’d go crazy bowling on dry lanes. And put some Brunswick crown pins in there. Beautiful setup though.
LongtowerNyc I on the same page w u bro😭😭😭😤😤FAX
Money , can buy you every thing!
What bugs me the most is the house balls and rental shoes. I would be like "If youre going to bowl on my lanes, you need your own shoes and ball."
Thats what i said .. If u aint got shoes or own bowling balls u cant bowl at my house
Most companies has packages that give you so many different size bowling shoes and so many different size house balls. Two lanes were over 200k.
@@jasonkoslosky7841. Might as well not include Rental Shoes and House Bowling Balls to reduce costs. Plus I would suggest if you wanna have your own Bowling Alley, just Maintain the pinsetters, don’t order rental shoes and house balls and invite family and friends who are League or Pro Bowlers cause the those who aren’t League or Pro are gonna harm your Lane.
If you can afford two lanes being installed in your house, you should be able to afford some Brunswick pins with your lanes. I'm pretty sure those solid white pins are just the pins that came with the spotters
That is so cool I wish I got it one of them
And I think the house was designed for it. That's a lot of $$$. Worth it if he's a pro.
It would be great to have a pair of lanes in my house. I'd probably go more retro than average, though... above-ground ball returns, 3-10 wood, perhaps Brunswick A-2s running at 'A' speed, oil the lanes myself using lane towels or bug sprayer(!), etc.
I would love to have the A-2’s with the pin elevators bonging away, and use Astroline masking units with the white star shield lights. I would probably still go synthetic lanes, for less maintenance, and Cosmic Bowling capability.
I would also go with synthetic lanes for the reason you state- definitely less maintenance. Cosmic bowling would be cool, too... and maybe old-fashioned moonlite bowling with glow-in-the-dark pins. As for masking units- Astroline would be very nice, although I might opt for the Gold Crown dual-lane ones depending on the decor I chose.
Agreed with all. Maybe a Jet Back deck shield, regardless of if it's actually at Jet Back speed; great logo. Synthetics are simply much easier to maintain, and definitely easier on the balls.
brunswick always best❤
The joy of being a multimillionaire
Love when youtube suggests a video to remind me how poor I am. 🙄
Step 1: Have a huge house and shit-ton of money.
Step 2: Watch There Will Be Blood again and again.
Step 3: Pace restlessly in your personal bowling alley, muttering to yourself about how you'll DRINK THEIR MILKSHAKE!
Top marks Glenn. How about shoehorning in a Bastard in a basket.
Glenn you're a little bitch. Shut the fuck up you libtard
With no oil on those lane, they won't last very long. Still pretty cool alley!
A house bowling alley for nubes?
izzy 706 stg🤣
Now let's install a curling rink!😁
Yes but would you slip on your approach??? LOL hhshdhhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahah!!!!!!!
Out of sheer curiosity, what's the ideal dimensions for 2 lanes and how much would that cost? Want something good for a long term goal other than the generic stuff.
Last I heard it was about 100k for a pair of lanes. And would need approximately 100ft. That's with walking space in front of and behind the approach and machine. Then you would also need to get an oiler which is usually around 15k- 30k depending on what you get.
Don't forget maintenance otherwise it won't last long
@@Kmadams_97 Well, time to play the lotto and buy a bigger house
bro you gotta be riiiiiiiiich to have your own BOWLING ALLEY in your HOUSE
all that for these bums to throw a bowling ball 14 times each down the lane before they get bored of it and use the room to play video games on the scoreboard screens and damage the lanes with metal chairs and spilling their juices on the lanes and make bowling impossible
How do you know that, dumb ass? Also, what if the person has a son or daughter that is a part of a bowling team or that the person that owns the house also is a professional bowler?
METO U would never get board if I had a bowling alley in my house. Would love it to death.
Pax Humana they suck just like you do dumbass.
That sounds like something you and ur friends or family would do if ur, not Bowlers.🤨🙄 Ppl that love bowling enough and can afford it like Chris Paul to have a bowling alley put into their home, would take care of it, ok?.🧐
@@conniee. I think that I have underwear older than you
Imagine little Timmy going down for ice cream at three in the morning and can’t resist the temptation 😂 ominous roll, boom
Love how you get a whole ass bowling alley in your house and their ain’t no oil on the lane...
Rt ppl would hate me ... If u dont have shoes and bowling balls u cant bowl... I would be bowlin on every pattern out there
?????????????WHAT R U TALKING ABOUT??
A GSX in a home 😮 that seems like a very high specced Pinsetter for that application
The color scheme is poor. I think they could use some more colors and graphics. Still very awesome!
I personally don’t mind it. In my opinion, sometimes simple is the best, but going for simplicity is hard. Do it too much, and it doesn’t look good.
Money can't buy taste
That would be awesome to have you’re own bowling lanes except for all the visitors stopping by all the time 😂😂
Damn. Take some lessons. Bring in a few Pro’s. Let them break those lanes in! 😂
Do they teach you how to fix the machine too if there is an off spot or a misfeed?