I will start by saying this is solid wood and STURDYwhich is excellent. However, putting it together is awful, and I mean awful. There are label stickers on the boards which wont come off. Two of the stickers are huge. The connecting bolts strip so easily that we ruined 5 of them and had to go to Home Depot to buy alternatives. The holes are not lined up so when trying to use the wrench to put the connecting bolts in, everything was getting stripped. The directions have no words so we ended up getting the two end boards together and then had to take the bolts out which resulted in stripping and lots of angry words.
I read reviews and mulled over this purchase for a few weeks. My daughter loves is but if we ever move it will suck because theres no way my marriage will withstand taking it apart and putting it back together. At least the weight limit is high enough that one of us can sleep it on it tonight because were not currently speaking over the assembly of this product.
Want to test your marriage? Build this together.
I will start by saying this is solid wood and STURDYwhich is excellent. However, putting it together is awful, and I mean awful. There are label stickers on the boards which wont come off. Two of the stickers are huge. The connecting bolts strip so easily that we ruined 5 of them and had to go to Home Depot to buy alternatives. The holes are not lined up so when trying to use the wrench to put the connecting bolts in, everything was getting stripped. The directions have no words so we ended up getting the two end boards together and then had to take the bolts out which resulted in stripping and lots of angry words. I read reviews and mulled over this purchase for a few weeks. My daughter loves is but if we ever move it will suck because theres no way my marriage will withstand taking it apart and putting it back together. At least the weight limit is high enough that one of us can sleep it on it tonight because were not currently speaking over the assembly of this product.