I made this purchase on faith as there were no actual reviews. You need at least 2 people to put this together. A tip for novices, dont tighten all the screws till its completely together. The bed is a lot sturdier than I though. I am going to add some foam padding to the short end that is next to the wall, but thats just do to my placement of the bed. The rungs on the ladder are very small and hurt the feet when climbing up and down. I got this for my teen, so little feet would probably be fine. I just got some foam pipe padding from Home Depot and will cut to fit each rung then glue it on. I will add that I was pretty sure I would have to do this before I purchased the bed. Another tip, get an Allen Key ratchet with a tip you can angle, and multiple sized attachments. Shipping comes in 2 separate boxes/shipments for whatever reason, so it took 3 days between the 2 shipments to get both boxes. The bed was actually packed very well, I did not see any damages when I opened the box. Assembly took about 2-3 hours, that included clean up, bed placement, and putting the mattress/bedding on. Over all I am very happy with this product. Oh! Side note, some of the instruction pages where out of order, but the steps are numbered so I just took the pages apart and put them in the right order.
2 man job
I made this purchase on faith as there were no actual reviews. You need at least 2 people to put this together. A tip for novices, dont tighten all the screws till its completely together. The bed is a lot sturdier than I though. I am going to add some foam padding to the short end that is next to the wall, but thats just do to my placement of the bed. The rungs on the ladder are very small and hurt the feet when climbing up and down. I got this for my teen, so little feet would probably be fine. I just got some foam pipe padding from Home Depot and will cut to fit each rung then glue it on. I will add that I was pretty sure I would have to do this before I purchased the bed. Another tip, get an Allen Key ratchet with a tip you can angle, and multiple sized attachments. Shipping comes in 2 separate boxes/shipments for whatever reason, so it took 3 days between the 2 shipments to get both boxes. The bed was actually packed very well, I did not see any damages when I opened the box. Assembly took about 2-3 hours, that included clean up, bed placement, and putting the mattress/bedding on. Over all I am very happy with this product. Oh! Side note, some of the instruction pages where out of order, but the steps are numbered so I just took the pages apart and put them in the right order.