Folding Table Instructions

Folding tables provide a fast, temporary and convenient surface for serving food, making crafts or any other project or task that requires a flat, sturdy surface. If you are enlisted to help set up for a banquet, party or just a game of bridge, read on to learn how to unfold and take down a folding table. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

1

Turn the table upside down and lay it flat on the ground.

2

Look at the legs to see what type of table you have. Virtually all folding tables are built either with four extending legs or two posts fitted with two legs each.

3

Open a four-leg table by raising each leg on its hinge from under the table surface and pulling outward until it locks into place.

4

Turn the table right-side up.

5

Close a four-legged folding table for storage by turning the table on its edge and depressing the release button on each leg next to the hinge, then fold the leg back underneath the table surface.

6

Set up a rectangular or large, circular two-post table by setting it upside down on the ground.

7

Raise the posts upright until perpendicular with the underside of the table surface and lock them into place by sliding the metal bracket between the legs of each post until it locks in the center of the legs.

8

Close the large folding table by raising the metal locking bracket from the hinge on each leg assembly and folding the posts back underneath the table surface.