The stools came rather squeaky, it was pretty distracting. The squeaks seem to come from the screw nuts that hold the spinner mechanism to the leg base. I took off the wood seat so I could get to the screws holding the spinner, and tightened them. That helped, but there was still some squeaking. I sprayed some white lithium grease into the holes in the brackets where the screw nuts for the spinner's screws are. Those are accessible with the chair completely adsembled. So far, I no longer hear the squeaks.