I was able to set the table and chairs up in about 1.5 hours. You can build everything with the tools provided, but if you have your own it'll be easier. The biggest places I had trouble was (1) with some of the threads not being perfect, meaning you needed to put a little torque to get one or two of the nuts through the trouble part and (2) I needed to adjust the chair legs after I tightened the nuts to get them to sit flat. In the end I managed by applying a little force, but it all sits solid now. So there were some flaws in the setup but I was happy in the end for the price. Really feel it was a great value, and I'll try to check back in after a while to review how it holds up!