Instructions could be better however there are you tube videos which I highly recommend you watch. If you don't have 4 people to help erect it then you're gonna dent your wallet with a contractor. Took my wife and I two days to build it and hired a contractor to help erect it because all my friends were stuck with mandatory overtime at work. It's all worth it though. Does get hot with the metal roof, I'm thinking about tongue and groove cedar under the roof to help with the heat issue from the metal roof. All in All this is a great gazebo for the price.