Hands down one of the most difficult deck boxes to build. We purchase a lot of furniture for our home to build and we have never had such a hard time building something. The entire box is metal and the screws are not pointed at the ends. In addition, the holes that the screws need to go into are too small. Basically you need to drill into each hole to make them larger before screwing the screw in. It took us 1 hour to complete step 1. If I can offer any advise, I would advise to look for and purchase a deck box other than this one.