I read the reviews and I am normally very good at putting things together, but the reviews claiming easy assembly were so off... wow the frustration was surreal!!! My husband and I were ready to give up and burn the thing if it werent for the high hopes of our angelic little one having this new bed as a birthday surprise and room makeover. It took 4-5 hours. I dont think most would be as persistent in the horrible encounter with assembly/extreme endeavor, but seriously, the assembly of this bed was the most frustrating thing I have dealt with all year, even over all of the changes as a frontline worker during all of the phases of Covid-19. The directions were poor and only diagrams. I tried to google a YouTube video for assembly and could not find one. Thankfully I did find the instructions online as there was a page missing which we realized after finally thinking we were out of the woods and had it figured out. None of the hardware were labeled in prepackaged baggies. We had to keep flipping through the 20 something pages of instructions to go back and figure out which screw the diagram was referring to be screw or bolt or whatever called 20055 etc. The wooden parts were well-labeled 1, 2,3 and so on. One of our biggest overall complaints is the wooden slats on the ends of the bunk bed. You have to put 7 slats into rail holes and then try to align each wobbly slat with another end piece which was an extreme challenge to line up and slide together. After you align the pieces and finally get them together, there is nothing to secure them from falling back apart until front and bottom bunk ends are assembled, causing many repeat frustrations of realigning the wobbly slat pieces with the other end piece. There are four of these end pieces with the wobbly slats for of total of 28 wobbly slats to align multiple times! My recommendation is that if you do decide to purchase, once you finally get these wobbly-slatted end pieces together, tape them on each end and in the middle with painters tape until you get them fully secured to the side supports. That was the only way I was able to make it work. In addition to my frustrations with the slats, somehow pages 11 and 12 were missing. This left a critical part out causing us to miss putting the top non-ladder side rails in before assembling the metal top bunk rail and top and bottom bunk wooden slats in. It was pretty much impossible to attach the rails even after loosening the rest of the bed up. We are going to now buy brackets to ensure the non-ladder side rails are secure and safe for our daughter. After trying so hard to jam these rails is, we damaged the bed a bit cosmetically. All in all, the bed seems to be well made in terms of provided parts, but expect frustration in assembly!!! It is a cute bed and I like the height with our low ceilings and having our toddler climb up and down from this bunk bed. It arrived on time as promised and was not damaged.
Assembly may cause divorces
I read the reviews and I am normally very good at putting things together, but the reviews claiming easy assembly were so off... wow the frustration was surreal!!! My husband and I were ready to give up and burn the thing if it werent for the high hopes of our angelic little one having this new bed as a birthday surprise and room makeover. It took 4-5 hours. I dont think most would be as persistent in the horrible encounter with assembly/extreme endeavor, but seriously, the assembly of this bed was the most frustrating thing I have dealt with all year, even over all of the changes as a frontline worker during all of the phases of Covid-19. The directions were poor and only diagrams. I tried to google a YouTube video for assembly and could not find one. Thankfully I did find the instructions online as there was a page missing which we realized after finally thinking we were out of the woods and had it figured out. None of the hardware were labeled in prepackaged baggies. We had to keep flipping through the 20 something pages of instructions to go back and figure out which screw the diagram was referring to be screw or bolt or whatever called 20055 etc. The wooden parts were well-labeled 1, 2,3 and so on. One of our biggest overall complaints is the wooden slats on the ends of the bunk bed. You have to put 7 slats into rail holes and then try to align each wobbly slat with another end piece which was an extreme challenge to line up and slide together. After you align the pieces and finally get them together, there is nothing to secure them from falling back apart until front and bottom bunk ends are assembled, causing many repeat frustrations of realigning the wobbly slat pieces with the other end piece. There are four of these end pieces with the wobbly slats for of total of 28 wobbly slats to align multiple times! My recommendation is that if you do decide to purchase, once you finally get these wobbly-slatted end pieces together, tape them on each end and in the middle with painters tape until you get them fully secured to the side supports. That was the only way I was able to make it work. In addition to my frustrations with the slats, somehow pages 11 and 12 were missing. This left a critical part out causing us to miss putting the top non-ladder side rails in before assembling the metal top bunk rail and top and bottom bunk wooden slats in. It was pretty much impossible to attach the rails even after loosening the rest of the bed up. We are going to now buy brackets to ensure the non-ladder side rails are secure and safe for our daughter. After trying so hard to jam these rails is, we damaged the bed a bit cosmetically. All in all, the bed seems to be well made in terms of provided parts, but expect frustration in assembly!!! It is a cute bed and I like the height with our low ceilings and having our toddler climb up and down from this bunk bed. It arrived on time as promised and was not damaged.