Kahuna 6ft Trampoline

Junk product – The quality of the trampoline is very poor. The tension rods constantly come out of the T-connectors and when we received it not all the T-connectors were in the box. We purchased a cheaper trampoline 3 years ago and in hindsight we should have just bought another one of those. We feel totally cheated and the boys openly refer to it as a piece of junk. Show details

3yo loves it – Very safe/contained, the netting is great and the springs are on the outside so no risk of getting stuck. It's big enough to fit two young (2-5yo) children. Bit slow to put together but no worse than any other trampoline. I added the cover which is great on a sunny day and to keep it clean. Good price for the quality. Show details

No Trampoline Should Be This Difficult To Assemble – So without a doubt, this trampoline has been the most difficult item that I have had to assemble in my lifetime and I've assembled enough items to say I am not too shabby at it. So let's go through this and I will be attempt to keep it as objective as possible: 1. I should start off by saying that Kahuna do clearly state that you need two able… Read more

bodied adults to build this trampoline. They're 100% accurate on this and probably the reason I struggled so much as I mostly did it on my own. There were certain sections where you absolutely needed two adults. On my own and with the help from my wife on two sections, this took me 8hrs solid so perhaps budget half the time if there are two of you.

2. The design. Sorry guys, but the engineers who designed this need a backhand. Why oh why has this been designed to be such a pain to assemble. Even with two adults, pieces don't just "snap" or "connect" in easily together. Every piece seemed to be a constant struggle to get connected. Other brands like "Plum" are an absolute breeze to assemble.

3. The base FYI is incredibly strong and secure and sure, I get it. This was engineered with safety in mind but this can also be achieved by not making it so ridiculously difficult to connect pieces together. The base itself took me about 5hrs just to do that. By comparison, our "Plum" one took me around 3hrs to be completely finished. Their design, in my opinion is a far more sensible and practical design whilst still maintaining safety and rigidity.

4. Two things which totally threw me and I will caveat this by saying it could just be my lack of knowledge but here goes: a. When connecting the frame pieces to make the circle, you need to connect them with the supplied T-Pieces. The one side would simply not connect into the T-Piece unless you physically pried the T-Piece apart. That was not obvious to me and I spent a good 30mins trying to work it out whilst my 8yr old daughter berated me for been a total failure and telling me that my wife would have built it by now. She was probably right in fairness. b. The lateral support bars between the legs. They will appear as if they are too short to connect the legs together and they are until you turn the frame up on its side and use your Superman strength to bend it in whilst Adult number 2 shoves the bolts through the holes. Again, why make this so damn difficult to do??

5. The instructions. Sorry Kahuna but your instructions are ridiculously unclear and every step was a real challenge to work out which piece went where? The graphics depicting the pieces in some of the steps could not have been more off so please fix that.

6. An impact driver. You need an impact driver for this assembly unless you have wrist strength the equivalent of hulk hogan. The frame assembly itself and especially the steps I described in Point 4 above need an impact driver to tighten and secure those bolts quickly and "pull" the frame together.

7. Once the frame was assembled, the rest went fairly well and smoothly though I was so knackered by this point every step felt like an eternity. Something to do with fatigue I guess.

8. Once built, the kids loved it and so was worth the pain and effort. The trampoline is a sturdy good looking trampoline but I have given three stars because I can't help feeling the engineering could be better in terms of assembly.

9. Would I buy or recommend this product to someone. In terms of been a solid trampoline, yes but in terms of time needed to assemble and what a challenge it was, No and it is for this reason I have give this a 3 star rating.

So in summary: Pros: * Solidly built trampoline * Very safe with internal netting. * Looks great * Kids love it

Cons: * Difficult to assemble * Engineering could be better in terms of ease of assembly (this is subjective of course) * Instructions could be clearer and make reference to sections definitely requiring two adults or sections where using an impact driver is recommended. I guess on this topic alone, they may not recommend it as if you set your impact driver too high a torque you risk stripping bolts but if you know how to use your impact driver, then it is an absolute lifesaver.