Now that the beds are installed they look great. However in creating the 2.5 x 8 I did feel they were a little more flimsy than expected. Additionally once loaded with soil they started to bow and we had to drill through them with all thread and nuts and bolts to pull them together. I think an improvement could be a pair of rods at every bolt down the center. Also tearing off the plastic protective sheeting on 12 of these kits took hours! I had to get a soccer team involved just to speed up the process.