Took 3 hours between two people. The instructions tell you that you need a hammer, drill and screw driver. The instructions never tell you when to use the specific tools. I never used my hammer, and the drill I only used to my short pointy screws. Otherwise I had to use a screw driver the whole time which was time consuming. Once I was done I wanted to try the fireplace and realized that I didn’t have AAA batteries for the remote.