I'll start by saying that this Gazebo is just what we wanted and looks great. Good quality, great smelling Cedar and relatively straight forward instructions. The downsides are few and minimal, but the process of taking the protective film off the roof parts was a huge pain and took forever. The roof peak was all bent up and damaged, but installed after hammering out the dents, and 1 roof rail was damaged as well. We slid that one in the back where is wont be noticed. Total assembly time, which included pouring footings that may not be required on your application was about 15 hours with 2 guys. If I wasn't pouring footings and was doing this for a second time, it would take about 10 to 12 hours. There was another review, where someone with super human powers did it in 6 . If you have some basic skills and live on planet earth, expect 12 plus hours.