I bought one a couple of months ago. The lid does not close tight, and the storage box has become a little green frog motel. Where they live and go to the bathroom on all my stuff stored in it. Today I took everything out to wash. Will vacuum out the frog mess while wearing a mask and then clean out the storage box with a garden hose somehow. I'm surprised I did not find roaches living in the storage box as well. The little frogs are too small to eat the roaches I find in my yard. I plan to shop for a roll of rubber or foam insulating tape to place around the opening. I may even caulk up all the seams with RTV caulking to help keep small insects out. I would not recommend this storage box unless you are willing to invest time and money to seal up the storage box. The storage is only suited for storing light things.

Actually this review is for 165 gal, but could not Sam's site to accept it. 1. Follow directions to the t. Don't try to short cut or "better way" it. If where there is a lot of water, place on bricks or wood and remember not just on corners! If you top "warps" place a small block of wood in middle of top between to and front with weight on ends... should straighten out (plus, it is not a $1000 box, that is at West Marine. I may have to pick up another one... I think these can be the basis of a number of things...

we bought this item before we moved from Georgia to Maine a few yrs ago and never opened it today we unboxed it and found no instructions and missing a few pieces so i do like the size of the box it seams sturdy enough for the things we need to store but unhappy with the missing corner pieces and latch assembly not sure where they went but not in the box..

This is such a great find!! We had to assemble and when we opened the box I thought “oh no” but it was actually easy to put together. It is very large and holds all of our pool stuff easily. It was less expensive and larger than every other storage container we looked at.

Bought at our local Sams due to purchasing a 165 gallon White Keter Deck Box for the sailboat slip last year and already knew that Keter quality was good. The 230 Gallon Brown Deck Box was as good or better and is great to store our 8 deck chair cushions in a waterproof environment. Was easy to assemble as I am a retired aircraft engineer and had no trouble with the instructions. All hardware and parts came with the box and was glad I waited a few weeks to get $30 off the price!

I was excited when I first put this bin together, knowing the big interior space was just what I needed. However, the next morning after opening the newly assembled bin to organize some of my things, I discovered a 3-inch frog sitting at the bottom! An assessment of how something that size could get into this bin overnight revealed that the sides of the lid interior have channeled gaps that extend at least an inch over the raised lip of the lower unit, thus allowing the frog to climb up the sides into the inner lid, and then over the lip into the bin itself. I can stick my fingers up into these channels from the underside when the lid is closed. Since it would have been difficult to return the fully assembled bin, we are still trying to figure out how to close up these multiple gaps on each side edge without creating an unsightly mess, compromising the lid integrity, and still close properly. It is highly discouraging to pay $150 for something that won't effectively prevent invasion by anything except typical small insects. I would not have purchased this had I known about this potential problem. Other than that, the bin was easy to assemble by myself and seemed well built. Everything else we've purchased made by Keter was satisfactory before this.

I bought this to store pool floaties, etc. The deck box itself is 5 stars but only gave it 3 because: 1. There were no instructions in the box. Luckily there were some good You Tube videos on how to assemble and it wasn’t an oversight no instructions in only my box. Seems to be a problem. Could also view instructions on the Keter website but seems it would be such a simple to include a piece of paper. 2. It appeared UPS had tied the box to the back bumper and dragged it for miles. The box was in shambles but luckily all parts were still there. I’m not a very handy person but got along fine watching the videos, which were honestly better than the instructions.

Perfect size for storing 5 sets of deep seating cushions + throw pillows. I now have 2 of these. The first one is about 8 years old and have had no issues with it. I bought another outdoor furniture set, so I needed another deck box for cushion storage. I'm so glad these are still available

I would have given this product 5 stars, if only it came with assembly instructions! Why were they not included? Yes, we finally figured it out after visiting Keter's website. But, it's completely idiotic for the company to be such a cheap skate and not include the instructions. Once we'd figured it out, the assembly took only 30 minutes (with 2 people.) For the price (was on sale) this box was a lot less expensive than other retailers.

Nearest Sams is an hours drive. I'm glad I decided to inventory the parts before attempting assembly. Missing all four of one part and had four extra of another part. The carton was unopened so this was poor boxing on the manufacturer's end. Now I have to make another trip. I'll inventory all parts at the store; but this shouldn't be necessary!