Definitely a two person job, but went up relatively easily. A little flimsier than I thought it would be, but should be fine unless a hurricane hits us. One note, we deviated from the instructions and screwed the small crossbars on before anchoring the three "in-between" beams, and it was a good thing we did. The instructions called for use of the same 1 1/4-inch screws, but the three beams actually used a smaller screw and there wouldn't have been enough of the larger screws to attach the small cross beams.