Customer reviews for Backyard Discovery Skyfort II Cedar Swing Set/PlaySet forMember photos









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Simply Amazing!!!
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Wooowww!!! I thought my kids would love this but forget them...I love this!!!! I'm always in the treehouse loool This a dream come true for my kids in such hard times like these. They don't understand much why things are the way they are but they love the fact that the closest thing to normal is their playtime.
Great Quality with a Tremendous Cool Factor
A few things I would like to point out: 1. This thing comes with heavy duty hardware (probably heavier than it needs to be). I would rather we go bigger than risk not having enough so I was happy to see that. 2. The instructions are pretty darn solid. There are a few parts where the picture looks like it is mounted on the other side of something just because of the way the 3d image is laid out so you have to be careful with that. There was only a few steps where I had this problem and figured it out later when I noticed something was missing and just looked back at the step and moved it. There was also a few places where I put something on backwards meaning the other holes on the board did not line up so you have to make sure you are looking at the picture good to see where the other holes should face. I did that a few times too and simply flipped the board back around or drilled new holes. Overall, I was very impressed with the instructions and the few issues I had were my own fault for not paying close enough attention. 3. This thing does not come weather treated so you will need to do that up front.. The good thing about this is you can pick the color you want. 4. I stained and built this thing in 32 hours by myself. I am not a carpenter but I consider myself a pretty handy guy and have put a lot of things together using instructions. If you know how to use tools and you can follow instructions, you should be good to go. I called a few places and they wanted around $600 to install it. At 32 hours, that would be $18.75 an hour. So I guess it depends on how much you make, how much your time is worth, and how much you enjoy doing these types of projects. I have a tent setup with tables and all of my tools and parts were setup....with a radio and some beer...it was good times. 5. This thing is bigger than it looks. The house part of it, I can literally stand straight up in it and it feels roomy. I am 6' tall so the peak of the house is probably 7' and the bay windows actually add room too and provide a little ledge that you can sit stuff on. Overall i am very happy with this purchase. We are going to be the envy of the neighborhood and I have two girls so we are going to "girly it up" with some flowers and curtains and stuff :-)
Great fun!
My boys (and their cousins and our friends kids) love this play set. We have had it completed about a week and they boys get mad when I tell them they have to eat breakfast before going out to play. We were missing part of the glider and when I called I was told it would take 8-10 business days, which felt excessive to me. Also, it takes a LOT to put this together. I had two friends volunteer to put this together and it took much longer than any of us anticipated, but it does look great and is well constructed.
Great Purchase
After researching for a few weeks, I decided to purchase the Skyfort Cedar Play Set for my grand daughter. She's only 20 months and my kids just smile and say, "WOW". My grand daughter loves to swing, slide, climb the rock wall, and look at the deer from the crow's nest. I had a carpenter friend and his crew of 3 erect the set. They worked from 7:30 am until 9:00 pm the first day. My wife and I spent about 4 hours completing the set the next day. I enclosed a 32' X 24' area with 6 x 6 timbers and filled it with 3'' to 4" of rubber mulch. I am very pleased with the appearance and functionality of this set.
My husband put it together. He said it was fairly easy to put it together. He recommends going through to make sure you have all the parts and keeping boxes separated. He said it took roughly 24 hours to assemble. The kids love it. It's very attractive looking in the yard too. We purchased it through Sams because it was $500 less than it was with a competitor.
Thank you for the 5-star review, we are happy to hear that you are enjoying your set
Fun Play
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!
Everything we'll ever need!
We bought and had this assembled this for our 3 year old daughter a week before everything shutdown due to COVID-19. This was probably the best investment we have ever made. It's taught our daughter so much and challenges her with new obstacles daily. She loves the swing and the lookout the most. It is sturdy and has everything we will need from monkey bars, to a sandbox (which we filled with smooth pebbles), and even a bench for some fine dining.
Amazing layout!
I purchased the Skyfort II with the expectation that my kids would enjoy it, but I didn’t anticipate just how much! Best purchase I’ve made to date for them. The layout is perfect at keeping them busy for long periods of time, definitely keep the imagination games flowing. The best feature is the crows nest, as they enjoy playing pirates and exploring the environment using their mounted telescope as a guide. The attached picnic table has them constantly asking to go outside for a snack, and a quick dive in the sandbox keeps them digging for that pirate treasure! Not only is it fun, it’s aesthetically pleasing! Beautiful addition to our new back yard. I highly recommend!
Great playset!
This is a beautiful playset once assembled, We did initially go through and check off all the wooden pieces and sorted them into piles according to their letter, we had it laid out all on the garage floor, so we couldn't park in their for quite some time, as our yard was to flooded for the longest time to be able to actually begin building. my husband worked on this for 5 days, totalling about 32 hrs, with at least 20 of those hours being with one other guy, and he still has the finishing touches of all the handles to put on. He said it was alot of work, and was thinking at times that $500 seemed pretty appealing to have someone else do it, the only reason I docked this one star, was because I do agree that the swing arm could be 6 inches longer or so to give a little more room in between swings, but really not a big deal, For the amount of stuff you get on this swingset its a great deal, and the crowns nest lookout tower, is really cool. We were not missing any parts, however, my husband came up short on washers, and 2 1/2 in hex screws, he said they came with enough, but the problem is, is they can strip out easily, so he did have to go to the hardware and buy more of those, but that was no big deal, and if it weren't for that he would have actually been able to cut off the last day of 2 hrs. But ran out after hardware stores closed on a sunday, so had to wait.
Anxiously awaiting setup
The playset was delivered a week or so. My husband plans to start on it this week. I am excited and the boys keep asking about it. When the set was delivered, there was a box that was damaged. The delivery guy was super nice and noted it and told us to keep our eye out for damaged pieces. We found one piece that had been splintered. We called customer service and they said they would send us a new piece. Also, the playset did not come with instructions. We were told to download it from the website. For the money, you would think they could add a complimentary set of instructions. Hopefully the set-up goes well! So far service has been great.






