I have had the stools for about 5 days. So far so good. They were just a little time consuming to put together put not bad. The directions cleary state NOT to use power tools. My husband found out the hard way why and then made a quick repair.  I've have metal bar stools for a while and decided to replace them with wooden ones. The metal is loud on my wood floors and drives me crazy. You can't even tell you're moving these.