My family purchased the skyfort elite in early spring. It has been a place of excitement, of learning, of experience in imagination, and physical exercise since putting it together. The kids love it, and we use it often. Great quality and durable. It was worth every penny spent. It went up in about 20 hours, yes that took work but the instructions (when I read them right) were very helpful. This thing is big and ever inch is useful in play

We're really happy with the product, and it's great that the it's a little more design-oriented than others. The kids love it, our only complaint would be the quality of the material itself. The wood is thinner than I would have expected, so we'll see how it holds up long-term. A few pieces came broken, but customer service was great in getting us what we needed.

The play set is fun and beautiful and functional for my 4yo. The 9yo neighborhood kid gets on it and it's making creaking sounds. I can't even imagine getting on it without breaking something. Part of me wonders if I would have settled for lesser features for more stability and peace of mind. I paid the price of the item for installation and mulch and I wish the quality was a little better. Stronger wood basically.

We bought the Skyfort Elite at the very beginning of CoViD 19 and it has been a blessing! Our 3 young kids, who were all going a bit stir crazy, we're immediately drawn outside every hour of the day to play on their new play set. Not only did it get them outside, but helped them work and play together as a team, sharing with and helping each other learn and grow.

I bought this and put it together by myself. The app was really helpful. However, the wood should have been treated, and more sturdy. A few of the holes did not match up particularly on the pieces for the overlook, which is dangerous. Many pieces of the wood started to crack after only a week or two and I find this disturbing, considering the cost.

Yes, make sure you have time set aside, and a helper, but the easy step by step instructions and better than average safety hardware make self assembly doable. Holes and hardware line up 95 percent of time, leaving 5% for you to figure out and drill. Special safety bolts leave little scratch hazard, and that's important on a play set. Overall, I'm impressed and the kids love it!

The end result is beautiful, so many neighbors have complimented the playset, and my kids love it! It was a huge project, though... The instructions say it will take an average of 20 hours for two people, but for two first-time playset builders, it took us about seven days of work over more than a month. The hardest parts were the curved sections of wood that needed to fit in the front, back, and the floor of the crow's nest were slightly warped enough that they just would not fit in the tight area. We had to shave an edge of a couple of the planks down slightly to make it work. I wish there was some additional space allotted in those parts since the boards only fit one way. We were also missing one piece. I had dutifully checked the inventory sheets that came in each box and confirmed that I had every board, screw, and bolt, but about halfway through the project we came to a piece of wood that was not on any inventory sheet (and not in any box). When I called to ask for a replacement piece and ask why it wasn't on any inventory sheet, the person told me that those inventory sheets are notoriously unreliable and that I should have checked the pieces using the instruction book. That would have been impossible (there is instruction book no index that says I need a total of four M23s, for example), and was very frustrating. When the customer service person did look up the piece, she told me that it isn't listed as part of my set and had to get a manager's approval to send it to me. It did eventually arrive a few days later, but they really need to make an inventory sheet that can be relied upon. Overall, the set seems sturdy, looks great, and is a lot of fun for my boys. I don't regret it, but it was a huge labor of love and more than a couple of bad words were uttered in the process. I think that's the case for any playset, though, so if you're mentally and physically ready for this task, this is a great playset to choose.

We bought this set a couple months ago and our kids love it. But it was a lot of work to set it up. Two days to set up with two people. The most helpful thing we did was to put all the hardware in ziplock bags labeled with their number and arrange them in order So you could find the hardware you needed easily. Also lay out all the Wood pieces in the garage. The app was very helpful with the 3D images.

This is a very well made swing set, that has a ton of features and quality lumber. Other playsets we have assembled came in similarly numbered boxes (1 of 4, 2 of 4, etc). The weird thing on this one is that you have to open all of the boxes first before beginning assembly due to the parts being in random boxes. Assembly in phases is much easier if the parts for the first 10 steps or so are in Box 1, next set of steps in Box 2, etc. We ended up paying for professional assemblers to save time, and they ran into issues despite being super careful and taking time to go through all of the parts. There were a few places where pre-drilled holes did not line up correctly, and required small modifications to get them to go together. There were also a few bolts missing, but were common sizes that I had on hand luckily. Overall this is a great swingset, but could be much better during assembly with a few tweaks to the production and packaging process.

Got this at the start of the Pandemic since our kids weren't able to go to playgrounds, and they LOVE it. Very sturdy! Definitely takes time to put together, and you have to lay it all out and figure out any missing / broken pieces up front but the team replaces those super fast. I'm not exactly handy and was able to put together with a little help from my wife in just over 2 days.