While this seems to be perfectly reasonable construction, the height was a problem. If installed exactly as it was made to be installed, it is very short. I banged my head on one of the supports, and I am 5'-3" tall. We modified the installation by placing another pipe (from a previous clothes line I had) over the bottom piece, drilling a hole through it and using a pin upon which the top section of the clothes pole sits. This seems to have lifted it up high enough to function.