We bought this at Christmas time for our 2 grand children and we just put it up. It was very easy to set up. We separated all the lumber parts by part number and all the hardware in number order the day before. The day of the set up there were 4 of us that were very familiar with building that put it together. The one thing you need to pay real close attention to are the uprights on the base, the directions don't show good pictures as to where the holes exactly should be. just make sure they are all facing the same direction (up or don and sides) very well designed and built!