This thing was a bear to get into the house. Heavy! It took us an evening and a morning to put it together. There was one piece with an unfinished edge that ended up backward, piece 13 in the media shelf, but we fixed it by affixing several of the circular wood veneer stickers meant to cover some of the screws on the back. Since ours is up against a wall, we don’t care that some screws in the back are showing. This is a really nice and sturdy unit. We got it under 300 and it was well worth every cent! So far we have not used the heat, just the artificial flame.