To start off, I like the look of this product and it seems to be very sturdy once assembled but I have only had it for a short time (at the time of this review)
Now here comes the bad part and why this even made me write a review in the first place
The assembly of this product is an absolute nightmare.
I thought to myself after opening the boxes and beginning to assemble the table and end tables:
/ Maybe I am doing something wrong, perhaps I have the legs I am putting together backwards
/ Maybe it is just not intuitive to me, I must be missing something
But then it clicked
After meticulous review of the instructions for the 20th or so time I was in fact putting the legs on correctly, and for some reason they were colliding with each other and out of place.
That sad reason was the very poor craftsmanship of the welds that were holding the brackets to the rest of the leg.
What I mean by that is the angle in which the bracket was mounted to the leg of the table meant that they were in all sorts of the wrong positions, which of course causes a large problem, putting the base of the table together with the legs
And now for the capstone of the problems with assembly:
When it came time to put the base of the table there was a big issue (the supporting box you can see in the main picture for this product). I now was faced with stretching, bending, and re/aligning the legs and brackets by pulling HARD on them to straighten them to the point in which I could actually maneuver the support to where it should be and finish assembly. When I say I had to pull hard, I mean that I, a 200 lb person, who goes to the gym often enough, had to literally stand on the underside of the table and pull HARD on the leg to straighten it to where it would fit. If you happen to be someone like me or has someone assemble this for you, go nuts, this product is the one potentially for you, but that hassle was completely unexpected and is in no way shape or form should have been that hard.
To wrap up my complains in a sentence about this product: it doesnt look half bad and seems to be durable enough, but the assembly is absolute trash and the quality of the welds on the mounting brackets was done by a toddler.
Assembly is insanely difficult
To start off, I like the look of this product and it seems to be very sturdy once assembled but I have only had it for a short time (at the time of this review) Now here comes the bad part and why this even made me write a review in the first place The assembly of this product is an absolute nightmare. I thought to myself after opening the boxes and beginning to assemble the table and end tables: / Maybe I am doing something wrong, perhaps I have the legs I am putting together backwards / Maybe it is just not intuitive to me, I must be missing something But then it clicked After meticulous review of the instructions for the 20th or so time I was in fact putting the legs on correctly, and for some reason they were colliding with each other and out of place. That sad reason was the very poor craftsmanship of the welds that were holding the brackets to the rest of the leg. What I mean by that is the angle in which the bracket was mounted to the leg of the table meant that they were in all sorts of the wrong positions, which of course causes a large problem, putting the base of the table together with the legs And now for the capstone of the problems with assembly: When it came time to put the base of the table there was a big issue (the supporting box you can see in the main picture for this product). I now was faced with stretching, bending, and re/aligning the legs and brackets by pulling HARD on them to straighten them to the point in which I could actually maneuver the support to where it should be and finish assembly. When I say I had to pull hard, I mean that I, a 200 lb person, who goes to the gym often enough, had to literally stand on the underside of the table and pull HARD on the leg to straighten it to where it would fit. If you happen to be someone like me or has someone assemble this for you, go nuts, this product is the one potentially for you, but that hassle was completely unexpected and is in no way shape or form should have been that hard. To wrap up my complains in a sentence about this product: it doesnt look half bad and seems to be durable enough, but the assembly is absolute trash and the quality of the welds on the mounting brackets was done by a toddler.