Sportspower Sunnyslope Wooden Swing Set with Play Fort, Trapeze, 6ft Double Wall Slide with Lifetime Warranty, & Bonus Anchor Kit

We received this swing set and it came in 2 huge boxes weighing for sure more than 100 lbs. (I feel bad for the poor UPS man!) I also feel bad for myself who had to lug everything in multiple trips to the backyard from the front for assembly. :) It took us very long to assemble and you need to have a buddy or two (or three) help you. This may take shorter for someone who is more handy than me as I am not so handy. Once assembled, it measures about 13 x 10 feet but obviously you'd want more space around it for the kids to swing. It seems very sturdy and made of good quality materials. I especially like the vinyl over the swing chains so the kids don't get blisters. And the well thought out little table and bench at the end (which is in the shade of its own canopy! - so smart). It seems that this was really designed with today's kids and parents in mind. Overall, I am very pleased with this swing set and I foresee my children playing on it for many years to come.

This park play set -- including a sheltered picnic table, picnic bench, swing set, rock-climbing wall, playhouse, sandbox, and slide -- is really fantastic. All the materials seem top-notch with the wood, hardware, and layout designed for maximum safety during years and years of playtime. The variety of activities is fun and varied -- our kids are having a lot of fun playing on it. Some considerations we had to take into account for purchasing this particular set included the size, which is about 13 feet wide and 11 feet deep (it looks about 10 feet tall when assembled). The instructions recommend six feet of space around it, for safety, which would be a good, generous amount, I think. Together, the two boxes it is delivered in weigh over 200 pounds, so depending on where your delivery is dropped off, you may have to team up to move the boxes or open them and move the pre-cut and drilled wood pieces, hardware, and swings and such, in several loads to wherever you're assembling the play set. The instructions recommend having four adults assemble the play set. That's what we did and it worked out well -- without rushing, we finished in five or six hours -- which I think is a small amount of time to invest for years of happy children. The instructions call for a power drill to use as a screwdriver, and we had two, one of which was an impact wrench, which helped speed things along since we could have two groups working simultaneously at times, with everyone pitching in together on more complicated steps. The instructions call for a ladder, which would have been helpful while assembling the canopy, but we did fine without, with one of us standing inside the tower. We actually assembled the tower on our deck, which is the first (and main) thing you build, and then we carried it into place in the yard, where we finished the swings' crossbar. What I would highly recommend is ordering the wood pieces, numerically, by the numbers stamped on each piece. That process made finding wood for the next steps quick and easy -- a big help. The instructions are very clear and straightforward, which make them easy to follow. We didn't run into any real problems during assembly. There are 22 steps laid out in the almost 50-page booklet, from the first -- pounding in square head rivets into the TOP of the crossbar (see the labels to tell which is the top) with a hammer or mallet -- to the final step, pounding in the anchoring stakes. The basic assembly components you do, over and over, are that a bolt, and a locking washer, are inserted through a pre-drilled hole all the way through into a matching board's pre-drilled holes, where a long, threaded, nut-of-sorts is inserted. You tighten by using a drill with a Phillips screwdriver head on the bolt while holding the "nut" steady with a heavy-duty hex-wrench (included). Pretty easy and straightforward. You could use a heavy-duty Phillips screwdriver though it would take longer to complete. There are large- and small-sized screws, mostly for the decorative slats, but again, there are pre-drilled holes for each, so everything is very easy to assemble. I really like how the completed structure gives the sense of being overbuilt -- which I think will last for years and years. Assembling it was actually a fun project for us all, and playing on it is so much fun for the kids. All those different play areas offer our children hours and hours of fun, fitness, and lots of ways to play outdoors and use their imaginations. What a great addition to our home!