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4.5
Please do not believe that this is stainless steel if you are buying it. Please.Understand that this is a very thin, cheap, almost flexible (and for a frame that should be STURDY- no one in their right mind wants to hear *flexible*) aluminum. I spent hours attempting to set this up, and having it repeatedly fall apart all around me as well as fall on me during the process. While trying to fit one of the 'poles' into one of the cheap plastic joiners, the plastic began to split and Crack, therefore compromising whatever integrity the joiner would have had. And no, I was not rough when trying to put any of this together.Unless I turned into the hulk overnight (last I checked, I'm pretty sure that's a negative), then the already weak frame poles pretty much "gave" and either began bending or getting dents in them just from me trying toAttach everything together and having it all come collapsing down around me about a dozen times. Please see the photos of the dents and bends that are now on these (not) "stainless steel" poles which are actually aluminum.After hours of frustration and still having a 'frame that would not stay up, I had to go to extremes. Yes, folks, it was Gorilla Glue time.Do you know how strong Gorilla Glue is? I glued each end pole into each plastic corner joiner and left them on the floor overnight to cure. 24 hours later, after beginning to try and set this crap up again, I find a couple of the poles didn't even cure to the joiners- they popped right out. What kind of aluminum and plastic repells glue??Welp, then it was time to lower my standards even more. I never knew it was possible for me to sink this low, but now I can finally say with confidence that KingKara has helped me to find this new low. Bear with me, folks, it's a bumpy ride ride from here, because now comes the clear packing tape. Yep, I had to tape each corner joiner and each place on the entire frame where the poles fit into eachother and could possibly pop apart and end up all over the bedroom floor - or me- again. Thank goodness the sheers I plan to use just drape entirely right over the top of this thing and I won't have to face the terror of having to take any of it apart to get any curtains on the poles.Another issue, though, if you happen to have a bed that doesn't have four very thick, heavy legs in *exactly* the right places, then you're not getting those frame "legs" secured to the corners of your bed. You're just not. I'm sorry bro.Granted, I have a vintage bed frame and the bottom legs actually have wheels, but even so, the legs of this frame don't sit anywhere close to where my beds legs are. The frame legs have what I can only describe as a hair-thin flat "foot" that is meant to be slid under the legs of your bed. As such, that is assuming that your beds legs are in the right spot. Otherwise you're going to be scrambling to figure out how you're going to get this frame to stand without bed legs to rest on each 'foot.' What the heck do you do? The frame is *not*, I repeat, not, going to just stand up on its own, fully assembled. Lets not bother going into the rigamarole I had to go though just to make it work with my bed. I'm still recovering from that experience. It was a whole thing. I'm not proud.And those feet things, by the way, could be bent and broken off by a 1 year old. Just saying.One half a bottle of Gorilla Glue, a quarter roll of packing tape, and all of my dignity later, this flimsy thing is standing. Somehow. Let's just say I wouldn't allow my young kid to get up and start jumping all over the bed, that's for sure. I also wouldn't want to "assemble" this thing in my kids room for their bed. That would be a disaster waiting to happen. But I'm keeping it because I doubt there are really any decent quality canopy frames unless you're buying an actual quality wood frame, or a quality four poster canopy bed. I'm not going there.If you're considering this, don't expect very much. And expect a lot of work getting it together, unless you have a 2nd set of hands to help, and a lot of unnecessary work getting it to (possibly) *stay* together.I spent $64.00 on this thing. The actual worth is probably $5.00 - $10.00 and that's being generous. The fact that I spent $64.00 on this is something I'll just have to take up with a therapist one day.Lastly, though not related to the frame itself, upon opening the China factory box it came in, there tucked in with all of the poles and parts was a lone, used cotton work glove just smooshed in with the pieces. Just my opinion- but *Gross*.
