I purchased this backyard set for my two kids, aged 3 and 10. I paid for the company sponsored installation service, and they were awesome. They had it up in less than a few hours, it is sturdy and very good looking. My kids love to play on it either together or with friends. The weight capacity we were advised was $1,500 so it is good for kids with lots and friends and family. Overall a very good product for the money, am glad I purchased it.

This swing set was successfully put together by my husband and three family members. It took a total of 15 hours to assemble...I had all the wood pieces laid out in alphabetical order for easy and faster assembly. I also had all screws/bolts/etc laid out for easy access. Multiple drills also helped the assembly process speed up, as one would charge they would use another. I have two girls and they LOVE the swing set and we can hardly get them in to go to bed at night. The monkey bars are a bit too big for my 3 year old but she will grow into them eventully. We had a birthday party and 10 kiddos had the times of their li es running all around playing on it. The quality for the price is amazing!! I would definitely buy this product again and recommend it to others! The picnic table is perfect for crafts and tea parties! The clubhouse and crows nest are very spatious!!

I purchased this 17 months ago. However, due to bad weather conditions, I was not able to get it assembled and in place until last fall, thus it has now been installed for a period of 8 months - through the winter, a very warm but wet winter/spring. Overall, I was very pleased with the quality, especially since it is somewhat more costly than competitor's models. I loved the fasteners provided. Overall the markings on the boards was good although I did have a couple of problems with the wrong board being shipped. In one case, I trimmed the edge off a couple of boards that were too wide; in another case, the board was too short and I had to have the company ship me another board, which they did promptly. I did pre-coat each board (as recommended by the manufacturer) with a semi-transparent exterior coating, dipping the end of each board into the paint bucket to ensure a good coating on the ends. Of course this was quite time consuming but worth it in the long run as the coating supplied by the manufacturer is merely a stain and not a weather-resistant coating. I have seen the same product nearby that the customer did not coat and within a year it is beginning to look quite weathered while mine looks as pristine as the day I put it together. I did bury an 8 x 12 x 4 concrete block under each significant ground contact point, making sure they were solid and level. I then added my own turnbuckles and eyebolts to ensure the set did not move or "jump." Also, we purposely left off one roof panel (next to the crow's nest) to provide more light to the playhouse. In addition, I placed a kids picnic table in the lower floor area in that the manufacturer's design of the picnic table blocks off the access to the floor area except to climb over the wall or go through the sandbox. The only aggravating issue I had with the entire experience were the drawings in the instruction book used to assemble the swing set. I called the company about this and provided written documentation to them regarding the issue. They said they were glad I called as well as provided pictures and written descriptions - by part number, but I can't say for sure they ever made any corrections to the instruction book. Overall, the instructions were detailed and properly progressive. The biggest problem, in addition to a couple of times where the instructions were in actual error, was that the graphic renderings were confusing. I am sure they looked really good on a CAD screen but when they were printed, hidden lines disappeared making it look like a part that was behind another part look like it is in front of the part, causing me numerous times to assemble a subassembly only to have to take it apart and reassemble it in the opposite location - no easy task given the hardware provided. I found that if I consulted the next step or two in the process, the rendering there actually often provided a truer picture of the prior subassembly than the one supposedly depicting the subassembly. I doubt the company fixed this even though I brought it up to them more than once. So, watch your step and don't get in a hurry or think you understand how a subassembly goes together until you check ahead in the book.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Very nice looking. It did take about 15 hours to sort all of the parts/bolts with each step and about 30 hours to put together. The app was very helpful as it could 3-D the part and show how to attach to the main structure when the paper book could not. The swings are a little close together so we took one down.

We love this play set. The instructions were not very good especially when it came to lining up specific sides. Our climbing wall has broken off several times so we finally took it off and added another slide, which the kids prefer anyway. Once it's assembled it's awesome!

We love the playset. The crows nest and swings are my sons favorite so far. He’s a little too little for the monkey bars and rock wall by himself just yet. The slide is super fast too. Everything is awesome. When building we were short a few washers and some would was splinting otherwise really awesome set! Plus we put our dog up to cool off he loves it.

Bought this set in June it took about 3 days to assemble. We laid out All the pieces and I helped my husband and his friends by passing the ones they needed. Once it was built we had someone with a spray gun and air compressor spray on the water sealer. Kids absolutely love it! We bought some upgrades like tic tac toe and drum set etc.. Makes it look that much better!

Overall we're very happy with our purchase. I love the way it blends with our wooded setting and the kids LOVE it! That's the main thing. Free shipping was an awesome plus; the same item can be found for less on eBay but once shipping is added the price skyrockets! At times the directions weren't easy to follow. We added extra support to the platform for added safety.

Great Quality for the money. I was impressed with how all the lumber was stamped with letter/number codes for easy inventory. We weren't missing any parts, thank goodness. I can see my son and his friend will have years of fun on this play set. Thank you for the careful design and planning. We are very pleased! We do also plan to seal it as soon as possible, so it will last in the Texas sun and harsh winter winds here in El Paso. Great fun! Much better than buying cheap pine wood equipment....cedar in the way to go!

This Skyfort is wonderful and quite solid. This 68-year-old grandma put it together with only a little help. It took me a week though. I finished it on Saturday, and my 3 and 6-year-old grandchildren loved it. Their joy was short lived, though, because a massive storm with high winds swept through Dallas on Sunday and uprooted a huge tree that fell on the entire playhouse and crushed it. It was completed less than 24 hours. All of us are devastated but grateful that the Skyfort kept the tree from landing on the house. My children and grandchildren are safe, albeit without gas and electricity for probably several days. This is hard to explain to two little ones. I’m not sure what we’ll do next. Even if I can figure out how to buy this playhouse again, I don’t live in Dallas and don’t know when I could put another one together. Maybe we’ll figure it out. Two crying grandchildren are rather motivating. But thanks for this interactive BILT software. I loved it.