This chaise is awesome.  I was reading reviews that said it did not lay all the way back.  Not sure how much further back you would want to be unless its standing on your head.  Never gets hot to the touch even siting the sun for hours.  Very sturdy.  Sometimes it is a bit cumbersome to get it folded up into a chair--but once you do its fine as long as you don't handle it to roughly.  Others complained the latch didn't stay--but mine do fine.  BTW I bought 2 of them and both work great.