My husband was able to put this together by himself. Everything went together great and the parts were clearly identified. He did get to the end and had to replace the nuts with another kind provided in the package (this could have been operator error). My 4 year old and her friends play and swing all over this and they love it. Great value and would definitely recommend it!

The Lifetime Climbing Dome is a quality made product that will last for many years, and the kids LOVE IT! We accidentally threw away the climbing handles. Customer Service was very quick in shipping out replacements to us. I will definitely purchase a Lifetime product again and recommend to my friends.

A friend gave us a Lifetime climbing dome when they moved out of town. Great product. One of the hand holds broke upon re-assembly. Lifetime replaced the hand hold free of charge. Their response was very quick and professional. The quality of service one expects, but seldom sees these days.

reading the directions and following them was a joke.. as they read you started with 6 pipes 4 brown and 2 shorter green,, not right for making a circle.. after about 2 hrs of following the supplied directions and going on line and finding the same poor directions,, my son and I desided to follow the picture on the box and started from the bottom and work up... and would you belive it only took us an hour to put the dome together... my advice if you purcess this climber throw the directions out and put it together using the pictures on the box,, it will save you a lot of time... J.R.

Our kids have been climbing on the dome for over five years. It's super sturdy and lends itself to lots of imaginative play, or just a place to hang out on, or in. A storm recently brought a gigantic tree limb on it, and only two bars were bent. Replacing them were easy thanks to excellent customer service.

I haven't had it up too long, but my kids (6 & 10) love it. They like hanging and pretending they are doing tricks or acrobatic things. We even hung some sheets around it and clipped them on with large clips. It made a fun fort. So many possibilities with a little imagination. It took us between 2 to 3 hours to set up which is what it had said it would take with 2 people. There was 2 of us, could probably do the first half alone, but then it gets a little trickier and definitely needed two sets of hands. No complaints here, it even showed up 2 days earlier than it said it would.

It didn’t take that long to put together. I got it for my grand kids for Christmas and my son put it together outside in 30 degree weather two days before Christmas!It came earlier than expected and everything was right there in the box! It’s bigger than I thought it would be and my 3 year old and 5 year old grandkids love being outside summer, fall, winter,and spring and it will get a lot of use! It’s quite high in the middle and they have had to work up their skills to go to the top! We love it!

It took a while to assemble and the directions were not great. You definitely want two people to assemble. The finished product is sturdy and the grandkids love it! Actually took up more room than we envisioned so if you have a small space be cautious.

We moved to a new location, and I had to disassemble our dome prior to moving so we could pack it and bring it with us. It's only a couple years old so I didn't want to leave it with the old house. In the process, I stripped a couple of the bolts and many of the nuts were pretty rusty. I contacted Lifetime to ask after what size bolts and nuts I should get as replacements or if they offered replacements. I was shipped a full set of nuts, bolts, and washers at no charge. In these days of supply shortages and relative high cost of doing business, that's just dang impressive. The kids love the dome. It's back up and in service at our new house and primed to go what seems like a few decades.

My age rate would be More like 4-10. The three year old would have to be an older LARGE sized one. I bought this for daycare and there are a couple of things I would change. first is the height of the first level going around. It's high for 3's and smaller 4 years olds. They so badly want to get on the first level and its frustrating to them. Second it would have been nice to have one or two open or square areas. I have some kids that are trying to flip on the first level bar and they find it difficult because the interfernece of the triangle hits their shoulders. Since all my kids are under 6, I really don't want them climbing on the top. We've put a tarp on top for a little shade. Works really well. This was NOT an easy thing to put together. One person would be miserable, with to it was manageable, but still a long time. The directions could have been written a little more clearly.