This is a nice looking bet house but with quite many caveats.
The most critical thing is make sure you do not tighten everything all the way, especially when putting up the roof panel.
So lets go by one one:
1) those 3 boxes are very heavy! Pay the extra $25 to have delivery to your room. I didnt do that, what a mistake!
2) when putting the roof, make sure you have 2-3 people to do the job. Unlike the house panels, the roof scratches very easily! Also, when tightening the roof with the meal screws, do it so gently and gradually on both sides ... we made the mistake of one side at a time, which caused the center spine to get warped, which ended up damaging the roof and made it uneven. We had to jump thru hoops to get them installed correctly again
3) the two top rails are different - the one with more holes are at the door side. The side with deeper threads are facing outside of the house, not inside
4) the center floor support is flimsy - definitely not for heavy kids or jumpy / bouncy kids
It took us about 6 hours to our this together (Ive tea breaks and debate on the confusing manual and fixing our mistakes included)
Nice, with many caveats
This is a nice looking bet house but with quite many caveats. The most critical thing is make sure you do not tighten everything all the way, especially when putting up the roof panel. So lets go by one one: 1) those 3 boxes are very heavy! Pay the extra $25 to have delivery to your room. I didnt do that, what a mistake! 2) when putting the roof, make sure you have 2-3 people to do the job. Unlike the house panels, the roof scratches very easily! Also, when tightening the roof with the meal screws, do it so gently and gradually on both sides ... we made the mistake of one side at a time, which caused the center spine to get warped, which ended up damaging the roof and made it uneven. We had to jump thru hoops to get them installed correctly again 3) the two top rails are different - the one with more holes are at the door side. The side with deeper threads are facing outside of the house, not inside 4) the center floor support is flimsy - definitely not for heavy kids or jumpy / bouncy kids It took us about 6 hours to our this together (Ive tea breaks and debate on the confusing manual and fixing our mistakes included)