Assembling an Item From Lifetime Products

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:37:42 +0000

Help with Lifetime Products Assembly

Some customers, among others, have reported back on their Lifetime Products item they purchased. They frequently advise us on the difficulty they experience when assembling their items. To be clear, most customers do not have any troubles with their items – a small minority do. Of that minority, the majority of those take issue with the assembly. We recently had one of our employees purchase one of the 22127 Lifetime round picnic tables and wanted to report back on the assembly experience. Please note that while you may not be purchasing a Lifetime picnic table, the point of this is instructive and should be applicable to any of Lifetime Products models.

Assembling the 22127 Lifetime Picnic Table

“I must say, to start out, that not any one step of the assembly was difficult or hard to understand. However, it did take my wife and me 3 hours to put the table together. Hopefully, our experience will help you slash your assembly time in half, or better. One thing that you should be aware of to start your assembly is that Lifetime frequently groups hardware parts (screws, nuts, bolts, etc.) by section of the assembly. This is to help you keep track of what you are doing and what you need next. So, on our 22127, for instance, the hardware was grouped by table frame assembly and bench assembly. Figuring this out before you start making the product should help cut time off your assembly. From there, like I mentioned previously, no one step was difficult to understand. However, when reading the instructions, you really need to do just that – READ THEM! As soon as you start assuming, based on the picture or parts needed for that step – what you need to do for that step, you are going to run into trouble. For instance, at the end of several steps in the 22127 assembly, Lifetime will have little boxes that say stuff like, ‘Warning: Do not do such-and-such thing until such-and-such step’ or ‘Important: Do such-and-such thing before proceeding with such-and-such thing’. In particular, one part of the table frame assembly had us attach a horizontal bar to the main framework of the table using a couple of screws. Sounds easy enough, right? So, I started attaching the bars like a I would anything with multiple screws, screw in each screw part way at a time until they are snug. However, as I approached it this way I found that one could start just fine, but the other was impossible to move to the point the other one had done. After nearly stripping the second screw to a point it could not be used, I noticed one of those little boxes on the instructions that said that I needed to put in one screw at a time. Upon completing the first screw, I was to unscrew it one full rotation and then put in the other screw. So, I did just that and almost like magic, the other screw went right in. Reading the entire step on the instructions before proceeding with assembly will save you tons of time. The instructions are parts are just fine, in my opinion. The only thing the person assembling the product needs to do is read them.”

Product Installation and Assembly Help

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:27:16 +0000

Having a difficult time assembling your Lifetime shed, basketball hoop, or any other product?

Assembly can be difficult for some products purchased online. Sometimes you get a bunch of parts and set of instructions and you just cannot seem to match up the part with the step in the instructions. Fortunately, most all of our products do have suppliers that run customer service lines that can assist in assembly help. For instance, Lifetime Products, while having excellent product lines, are notorious for having lots of little parts that can be difficult to work with. Don’t stress. Instead, contact Lifetime Products at 1-800-225-3865.

Contact us for help getting help

If you bought your product from us, chances are our supplier has a customer service line that can assist with assembly. Call or email us with your order number, or ordering information, and we will help you get in touch with the right people for assembly help if available.

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Assembling an Item From Lifetime Products

Help with Lifetime Products Assembly

Assembling the 22127 Lifetime Picnic Table

Product Installation and Assembly Help

Having a difficult time assembling your Lifetime shed, basketball hoop, or any other product?

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