This thing takes easily 8-10 hours to build. All the wood is labeled, which makes it easy to identify what needs to go where. Plenty of extra hardware. The wood is perfect for the kiddos who get to play one it. It even supported my 210lbs to get the higher up pieces together. Good looking wood grain color. I got this for my daughter as an early birthday present, and she absolutely loves it. She's all over it and constantly jumping from one thing to the next. She's had so much fun playing on it. The hours of labor really made it worth while to see her big smile. I assembled it by myself, but it would go faster with more people, not to mention power tools. Can't wait for the family friends and their kids to come play on it. The instructions were a little confusing at times, so take your time when you're building it and have a table set out with everything on it. Everything is labeled. Well worth the money. Just time consuming to build.

I bought this swing set for my almost 3 year old grandson. I had priced locally sourced sets, which were about twice the price I paid for this and some weren't even cedar, as this is. Good quality materials and although it was very time consuming, it wasn't too difficult to put together (if you're a bit handy). As was recommended on another review that I read, it is very helpful to lay out all the pieces by their letter identifyers before starting to construct as there are a lot of pieces. Also helps to have an electric or cordless screw driver.

I plan to update this review after some time of use but this is my initial impression review. This playset is great overall! It took my husband and I 8 hours to put together. My husband is very handy and he had all the suggested tools prior to installation. It was a crazy hot day so we took breaks as well. I got the next step pieces and hardware ready while my husband assembled for a smooth assembly process. We took inventory before assembling and we had every piece plus lots of extra hardware. Nothing came damaged or warped, except for two pieces that were slightly split at predrilled holes, that split a little more during assembly. I plan to contact the company to have those pieces on hand in case they continue to split. The pieces are very sturdy, good quality. I don't forsee this playset deteriorating any time soon. We had no issues with install, very smooth process, easy to understand instructions. My kids are delighted!! I have 6 year old twins. This set is a great size, they should be able to enjoy this for a few years. I'm impressed with the slide as well. While the side rails, the green part, get too hot to touch, the slide itself, the yellow part, is just fine to slide down on hot days, which surprised me. If I had a negative it would be that I wish the price was a bit less. But this is a good quality, sturdy playset so I'm hoping it's worth the investment in the long haul.

I bought this as a birthday gift for my son. Definately well worth the price. The paper directions while great don't show all steps. If you want in depth directions I would recommend the 3d walk through directions. As a side note box said 2 people required for building but im a strong independent individual and said fudge that. I had regrets. Lol. Build with a friend. You've been warned. Sturdy. Practical. Well manufactured. The slide is the most annoying bit.

This is a great kit. There was one image backwards on the instructions and one board was mislabeled on the instructions for placement. The hardest part about this kit was separating all the parts and arranging them in a useable order. The construction seems odd at times as you will “jump” around building pieces unlike most construction from the ground up. Just be patient and look at the instructions and ensure images are correct. Took about 8 hours to put together just because it’s such a large puzzle and sometimes you switch bolt and screw packets. Make sure your ground is level and square as possible before putting together. We laid a tarp out to get an idea of where we wanted ours in our yard and how we wanted it oriented. They also have where you can use an image of the swing set and place it where you want in the camera/photo of the area. We also used some landscape timbers and rubber mulch for the inside areas of the set and it took over 50bags! A few tools are needed and another person is needed when ready to start to put it all together but only briefly. No missing parts or hardware and minimal tools required. They even provided most of the tools and bits for screws as well as a gauge for board separation. We added the toddler and baby swing as the kit only comes with normal swings.

It took a while to ship, that was really the biggest downside. But once it arrived in our state, CEVA logistics scheduled the appointment quickly. It had all the parts! We hired someone from Thumbtack to assemble it and it was totally worth the money. He got it done in about 5 hours. The playset is a perfect size - not too huge, but also big enough that our toddler will be able to use it for years. And so much to do, too! The only thing we really don’t use is the rope ladder, because it is kind of tricky to climb and really wobbly. But this is probably more fun for older kids that need a bit of a challenge. We plan to turn the covered area under the main platform into a sandbox. I was also surprised at how well our 2 1/2 year old could climb the rock wall! As far as sturdiness, we’ve only had it a couple of weeks. I wondered how well the tarp on top would hold up. But we’ve had snow since this was assembled, and it’s all looking perfect still. Overall, really pleased with it and so are all the kids that come to play on it!

Build quality is good. We did have one piece of wood that split a little bit. My husband put it together over a day. There were a few pieces that were missing the drill holes, but that’s no big deal we handled that. We did get Thompson water sealer and covered all the wood. The set is solid, the platform easily holds adults and most importantly, my kids love it