U-MAX 17ft x 12ft All Cedar Wooden Gazebo Pavilion with Hard Top Slant Roof,Wood Heavy Duty Carport Garage Outdoor Gazebo Wood Pergola, Coffee, for Patios, Garden, Backyard

The media could not be loaded. I liked the product when I saw the pictures online. There were these wonderful pictures of patio furniture under the gazebo and it looked stunning. That’s about where the good review ends. I hired contractors to assemble the gazebo only to have them discover that the parts that hold the gazebo together were missing. I contacted the seller and let them know that the contractors that I paid to have assemble the product discovered the parts were missing however I still have to pay them for showing up. They gave me a $30 credit which was laughable since the cost of have anyone show up for any kind of labor is over $100. Instead of going back and forth I decided I wanted to have this assembled as quickly as possible. When the parts arrived a few days later the gazebo was put together and that’s when I discovered more issues.1) The roof is dark brown plastic. It will leak as you see from the video no matter how it’s done because these is not enough of the roofing material to properly overlap and it’s plastic so the heat makes it bow a bit so it holds water and it leaks between the seams. There were no dry areas under this structure to justify it being used as a gazebo.2) The dark brown plastic roof attracts heat and it radiates to the space below so its 100 degrees under this when the sun hits it. We could not be under it for more than 10 mins without sweating profusely.3) It is also UNDER 6 ft in height at the shorter end. Which means that if you are 5ft 11 and over you will hit your head every time you enter and exit this structure. The pictures are VERY deceiving.4) It say’s cedar in the initial description of the gazebo. Turns out the whole thing is made of pine with a cedar color. That was very misleading.5) If you wish to change the roof for better quality roofing and better over lap so it won’t leak it’s upwards of $300.00 in materials and $200.00 in labor to address that issue.I wrote the seller several times to only receive $130.00 credit. I will say at least they do respond.You will be disappointed with what you get with this unless you are using it only as a carport and as a leaky and hot one at that. It’s not really all that sturdy and it is not versatile unless you raise the height of the entire structure and address the roof issues before you assemble it. I went with white PVC 12foot galvanize roofing to reflect the heat and I raised the structure with 3 pavers to improve the height. You will get much more value for you money if you find another structure with metal roofing and much higher roof to begin with rather than having to fix problems after installation.

Overall, I like it and it looks very nice. Pretty quick delivery. The boxes were packed well and the kit is pretty well built.I use this structure as a car port and while it was somewhat straightforward to put together with the enclosed manual (7-8 hours) and the material is decent quality, I didn’t realize the roof would be plastic. Would be way more sturdy with metal roof. I will add OSB on the roof to make it a bit more sturdy and waterproof. The way it is set up, water leaks all sorts of places and the roof is actually a bit short - doesn’t fully cover the width of the structure. One of the thing is that it is not tall enough for SUVs or trucks. I did, however, add an 8 inch extension on one end to lift it a bit higher, and my SUV now fits fine.If the roof was metal, I would give it five stars for the price.