I did not put the glider together.   A person who is skilled in assembling furniture did this for me and commented that this was the worst example of poor part construction he had encountered in furniture requiring assembly, and he has assembled furniture for many years.  He had to improvise throughout the assembly process to overcome multiple issues with the parts.  One section of the glider base had a joint that  was 1 1/4 inches off and he needed to use about 8 or 10 washers to compensate or the base would not have been level.  The instructions were not well written........or written at all really...........just pictures.  There is no way that I would have been able to assemble this myself.  And it took the skilled person who did 4-5 hours, not including the trip to the hardware store.  I give it a rating of 2 because I do like the appearance of the glider and I think it is comfortable.   But It has just been together for a couple days now so I can't speak to durability.