Talk to me about backyard swingsets

Where did you buy? How much to spend? Any feedback? We have 3 kids oldest is 5 [so no Step 2].

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I shopped at both Wood Kingdom and Creative Playthings. I found the quality of both to be similar, but CPT had a lot of little things that I felt made it a better set. The tarp on top was a strong cloth vs. the plasticy vinal (like a tarp) at WK. They also have covers or plugs to cover the bolts, so it looks neater. We spent about $1800 for ours (bought in January, installed in April) They deliver and install as part of the price.

My friend bought a set from Costco and to be honest, it's very flimsy compared to the one I have. The wood is thinner, it peels, and it just isn't as well made. Yes, it looks nicer as far as features, but not worth it, IMO.

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Also does anyone know if they offer removal of old set as well as delivery and install? We have a hand me down creative play things set that doesn't seem to be holding up that we'd be replacing.

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We just got one for our almost 2 year old son from walmart...spent about 450 for it but had to put it together ourselves...took my DH, father and FIL about 7 hours to put it together

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we have a creative play things and LOVE it! My girls are on it all the time. We have the Cambridge. we looked around for a long time before settling on this one. we're very happy with it. the installers were great and fast!

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we looked A LOT this past spring and i liked everything i saw at both Wood Kingdom and Creative Playthings. my kids are 2 and 4 so i didn't want anything too small but nothing crazy. my requirements were: a slide, something to climb, swings and a gondola/teeter totter thingy my DH was vehemently opposed to buying a swingset as he said "i could build them myself" it caused a fight here....but in the end this is what DH did (took about 3 weekend) who knew he could do this?



my kids LOVE it-was totally worth it. i'd say that in the end it probably cost about 900 dollars in the end. not cheap but he used good wood etc.

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We also have a creative playthings set. I agree that it is really the best quality of the ones we saw. Can't remember exactly how much it was - more than $1000 but, less than $2000. We have a smaller set though - 3 swings, slide, the fort and climbing wall. They deliver it and put it together as well (which some places the home depot and costco don't - putting it together is intense and costs $$$ from what I have heard from friends).

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We got ours at BJ's; it was a set similar to Creative Playthings had for 1/3 the cost. Took DH 3 days to set it up; but it's cedar; good quality & the kids love it.



This is almost finished...can't find a finished pic right now

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We got our set from Creative playthings. It was the Lincoln set. We have a very small yard so we didn't have a lot of choice in which sets we could get b.c it was the largest one we could fit in our yard.