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Backyard Discovery Skyfort III Cedar Swing Set with Tube Slide
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Apr 22, 2021
Anonymous
5 out of 5 stars review

Hours Of Fun!

Got this for our daughter’s second birthday and she loves it so much. It did take a few hours every night for my husband and I to put up. Note that the boxes are not in order of what you need, one project could be in 4 separate boxes. However, the hard work paid off and she plays on it for hours! The tube slide is her favorite!!

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Mar 28, 2022
Natasha
5 out of 5 stars review

Hours of play. A lot of value for the money.

I don’t really know how the assembly went—we hired a local company to do it for us. They did use the BILT app, so you may find that useful if you plan to DIY. The final product is phenomenal. My four-year-old loves it. Some of the reviews show this product with a balustrade and picnic table on the bottom but those aren’t included. That is a feature on the “Skyfort with a Tube Slide” and not a feature of the “Skyfort III.” The reviews for the two products are combined and it makes it confusing. Otherwise, I recommend this play set 100%.

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May 9, 2022
Jessica
3 out of 5 stars review

A PAIN!

Beautiful playground set a complete pain to build. Took my husband and I 4 days working from sun up to sun down. The wood splits and some parts don’t go in evenly. The tube slide was a complete nightmare. You have to manually put in all the bolts and there’s SO MANY which makes it that much worse! The instructions for the tube slide were terrible as far as lining the parts up because we had to rebuild it 4 times just to get it right. We regret not paying someone to build it for us. If we have to do it again we are definitely paying someone. Not an easy project.

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Dec 30, 2024
Chris and Laura
5 out of 5 stars review

SkyFort III

Kids absolutely love it. When putting together, I would reccomend separating all the wood like they say but I would seperate each steps hardware in a plastic cup. We spent a lot of time going through to find each part needed. Second day I went through every step on the bilt app and separated each batch of hardware and it was a lot easier that way.

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May 25, 2022
Playset21
5 out of 5 stars review

The kids love it

We've had this set for a year. To be perfectly honest, putting everything together was a long process. All the pieces were scattered throughout 4 boxes, so we had to sort everything; and then we decided to seal each piece before putting it all together. However, it was totally worth the effort! The play set looks great. The kids love playing on it and are out there every day that they can. They even ask to eat lunch out there. Definitely worth the time, effort and cost!

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Jan 24, 2025
Medx2b
5 out of 5 stars review

Kids love it

This did take 2 competent people a week after work to assemble. I recommend one person preps the next step of hardware using the spanish instructions that helped keep the pace steady. The girls love their swingset and being in an HOA it was no issue getting it approved.

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Nov 17, 2023
CCRLC
5 out of 5 stars review

Great price

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] My kids love it. The price for what you get is hard to beat. I would have liked an option for a better hardware pack i.e. ceramic coated screws, stainless steel bolts, etc. There were also a few steps where the step order could've been improved for to save on build time. The directions could have also been optimized to cluster the two person steps at the beginning. The only thing I didn't like was the use of 1" thick lumber used for structural support - I would've much preferred 2" thick. To save on time, I labeled all the parts (lumber and hardware) with painters tape (so the part numbers were easy to read) and sorted alphabetically. This saved a ton of time.

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Jun 3, 2022
yh
3 out of 5 stars review

Low quality wood, not all pieces line up

Built 90% alone, needed help on other parts. One of the main wood came cracked, other smaller ones also cracked. Needed to order the parts which I didn’t end up using since it takes 2 weeks for it to arrive. Drilled new holes to make parts fit (not my mistake, holes just do not line up). I needed to anchor some parts like the walls from the bottom, but after I drilled, the T-nut wouldn’t fit because of the frame that was installed prior (happened on 2 areas). Was installing the swing and the wooden panel that it screws on to was in an awkward position and cracked one of the panels. Overall OK, but not worth $2000 after shipping. I wouldn’t pay over $1000 for this. Kids love it tho.

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Jul 1, 2020
Grammyclaudia
4 out of 5 stars review

Perfect COVID distraction

I got this for my twin grandsons. The price was right and it had tons of features to keep the boys out of moms hair fir a bit and burn some of that energy! My husband and a friend put it together in about three days. The only problem was in replacing the slide that arrived damaged. It did arrive Eventually so I cant complain really.

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Jan 17, 2025
EmEMT
4 out of 5 stars review

Skyfort iii

We bought this for our kids for Christmas. We received it and it sat for a couple weeks. Some of the bolt packages came open in the box so there was a lot of having to guess what bolt went where. Overall great product. It did take me and a friend 57 man hours to assemble. But we were able to keep it hidden until Christmas morning after finishing it Christmas Eve.

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