KidKraft Boulder Bluff Playground Assembly and Surprising Granddaughters! 

I have built one of these play sets. Do yourself a favor. Follow what the instructions say and inventory all the parts to make sure everything is present. The instructions have a complete listing of all parts with dimensions and line drawings. Then lay out all wooden parts in part number order. If one follows the building instructions, one will find the play set is assembled almost exactly in part number order. Not completely, but very close. A couple hours invested in inventory and organization will pay dividends in lack of frustration later. Having two drill drivers will save time during assembly when drilling a pilot hole and then driving a screw. That saves a lot of bit changing. Using wood clamps made assembly of some components easier and more precise. I commend DoItMyselfGarage for pointing out the part number discrepancy on the bridge angle brackets. That saved me a lot of head scratching. The tube slide is one of the most time consuming assembly tasks.

i'm at the tail end of putting this together. it definitely is a lot of work. i also had to prep my backyard to work on it as well and unfortunately i'm finishing it off during the middle of summer. but it's almost done so i'm really happy to see it come along. i would recommend making sure it's level before beginning but it looks pretty good where he has it.

Great video! I’m tackling this myself and really appreciate you taking the time to share! Seeing the joy of your grandkids at the end is all the motivation I need!

Putting one together this weekend, thanks for the tips!

Thanks for the video. I’ll be starting on this, tonight, and I will be thinking about your tips.

I was frustrated looking for the 1530 part you mentioned at 9 minutes to the point where I came to RU-vid to See if anyone mentioned it! You saved me a lot of frustration that hopefully I would’ve figured out. Anyway thanks for the video!

Thank you for your help. I just finished installing this playset, and it took me 15 hours to complete. A tip I would give to anyone installing this is to keep all the parts (wood) in numeric ascending order. Also, take out all the boxes with screws and group them by their respective letters (S, PB, LW, WB, G, etc.). It will be much quicker to find them that way instead of having them in the box.

Bro took a half a day just to take the boxes out the garage! 😂😂

This video motivated me to build our play set, we bought the same one from Costco last week and was also on sale. We managed to finish roughly half the project in one day with 1 adult male and 3 female assistants, though it took a whole day to prepare by relabeling the parts and laying it all in order. One tip from my experience is to wd40 the bolts, it’ll make it easier to drive it in. Also if your bolts strip from your impact driver, use a vise grip and unscrew it out. Worked out pretty well for us so far. Hopefully will complete the rest of the project tomorrow.

Does anyone know what tools I need what size of dice and everything else I really appreciate it

My mom got our son the swing n slide ws8354 last year and we are finally getting around to building it and man what a task.. it has 2 slides. Monkey bars. 2 platforms and swings ohh and also a roof. The hardware kit boasts 125 screws at 2 1/2" screws for example aside from the 3" and other multiple sized screws and nuts and bolts.. We did day one on it and it's literally build board by board, I was foolish to think they parts came in assembled panels. It's easentially like building a small cabin board by board but you know what I have my power tools etc and i had gotten my gf a 12v drill so we are both giving them a good workout. Day 1 in and we found we were missing a bolt so I had to go to my work (Lowes) to grab more hardware. I hate the fact that with the multiple boxes of wood we have for example the 2 boxes labled tower that we had to go into the "monkey bars" box to find the next piece we needed.. I am into rough woodworking etc and do smaller projects so my mentality is finishing a project in a day or perhaps 2 to finish. This build is gona be a marathon and i have accepted it, I am definitely feeling your pain but you know I need to stop looking at it as a chore i have to finish ASAP but yah. I have been telling my gf that I wanted to build a new woodworking project and while this isn't what i had in mind she is right. I need to get into my zen mode and enjoy the process, its Fall, the weather isn't too hot or cold and it's outdoors. So the caveat with my build comes in the fact that my backyard has a drastic slope downhill and also the other way so once it's built I have to find out how to level the whole thing out. At least your foundation looks pretty level (vs mine) At the end of the day the best payment is watching the kids see it for the 1st time. My son is 6 and on the jobsite with us so I am letting him drive screws and hammer some of the things that need hammered. He is chomping at the bit like he isn't going to get to use a drill or hammer and mom and I assured him there is still plenty of work ahead. Take care. Cheers

Thank you for this. Do you recall what items where in box 1?

The walls of the bridge-how did you figure out the spacing? I don’t have a ruler with fractions of a millimeter

So, i am building this but not 100% set on the location. How hard is it to move once in place? I figured i could put some rollers under it.

Did you have any issue with the tube slide lining up with the wood support? It's just not lining up with uneven ground and I don't know what else to do.

How much was it on sale?

Currently building this. Where I want to place it isn’t exactly level. Do you think that will be a major issue? Thanks.

What do you recommend to help with page 92? Attaching the board to the tube slide? I can't seem to get the board and bracket lined up properly to attach it.

I’ve read bad reviews about kidktaft wood quality, I’m also worried about 110lb weight limit per swing. I’m a big Dad and I’d like to at least be able sit on the swing. But Costco has this on sale! Haha! What to do??

When assembling the tube slide did you find one of the holes didn't align on every piece?

By any chance you got the harwareost required

What was the sale price? It’s currently listed in my area for $1399.99

can one guy do this? did you have help?

The KidKraft swing set broke under a year. I contacted customer service and sent all required paperwork and photos and haven't heard back from "Sarah". It started falling apart 6 months after I bought it then completely at 10 months. My daughter was swinging on it and it cracked and off she flew. Terrible customer service. I will not be letting this go simply because the children don't need to be hurt. If they cared they would have contacted me back!