Swing-N-Slide 7 ft.Turbo Tube Slide , Green

My granddaughters highly recommend this product. We built a playhouse for our grandchildren about 4 years ago. In October of 2024 our home was hit by a tornado which damaged the playhouse. We were able to rebuild with some minor changes, of coarse with suggestions from our granddaughters. This was the second Swing-N-Slide 7 ft.Turbo Tube Slide. The first one that blew away was Blue and the new one is green. The kids still love it! I will say, the skill level is about a 6 out of 10. Mainly due to the deformity of the plastic and balancing the section while putting together. The tools I used to build this slide: Drill ¼” drill bit ½” drive socket for drill ½” wrench and/or ½” ratchet 2 magnet dishes for hardware two screw drivers, used to align the holes so it does not matter the type Wood or locking C clamps could be helpful I separated everything, the bolts went into one magnet dish, the nuts and washers in another, the panels placed in sets, the base and top mount set aside. The instructions are rather simple. I put each tube section together first which gave me 4 individual sections. That was fairly easy. Connecting the tube sections together was more challenging. This becomes more of a balancing act with each added section. I used a folding table, 4x4 blocks and 2x4 shims to help stabilize the two section I was working on. When attaching two section together, I started with putting in two bolts, one on each side (hand tight). Then put in all the bolts loosely. After all the bolts were in, I tighten with a drill, nut driver and a wrench. I found that some of the holes do not lineup. Partially because the tubes are slightly deformed (oval not round) until everything is put together. If the two holes were close to lining up, I could use a screw driver to align them and then screw the bolt in with the nut driver. This held the sections together until I could put a washer and nut on. If that did not work, I drilled out the hole. The top mounting plate and bottom section went on fairly easy. Installing the slide to the play set. I would imagine this is very different for every installation. The trick was holding everything in-place while making the connection. I cheated, using a skid loader to hold up the slide while making the attachments. Hope I don’t have to, but I would buy again.

Our four year old daughter LOVES this slide! It was kind of agrivating at times while assembling it. We had to drill holes that didn't line up very well. (So I suggest having a drill with drill bits at the ready). Also, the bolts that come with it are a little short. There are a couple of longer ones if you dig through them, and we figured out that the longer ones were to get each section started easier and then we backed out the longer ones and put the shorted ones back in so we could use the longer ones again to start the new sections. (So if you have longer bolts then I suggest you use them when putting the built sections together). We put all of the sections together and then attached the top section to the playhouse we built her. Then we attached the next piece as the instructions said and it went pretty well. But when we got to the point where you attach the last two sections, the holes did not line up at all and we had to drill our own holes and go with it. But it all works well. We dug a hole in the ground at the foot of the slide (before we put on the last piece) and then packed dirt around the end piece we put on and it holds just fine, no wobbling. So we didn't do that last step with attaching it to wood and all that... It's very stable the way we did it. All in all our daughter has a blast!! My husband and I have even been down it too, and it's a little to cramped for us, but we did have fun too:)! It definitely lives up to its name, turbo fast fun!:)

The good the bad. I love the slide and the kids love the slide. I posted a video on me going down the slide and I’m 6 feet 1 and 285 lbs. the slide held up well and was as I expected to put together just took time and I used a pair of vice grips. The bad I had to wait like 5 weeks to get it and I know it was pandemic problems the 2nd bad was it was very hard to hang on my tree house just because it was heavy and akward. We just moved so don’t know anyone to help so I hooked a pull above it and tied rope attached to my driving lawn mower got to right height and swing over and drilled in. I also had to put a support under the final curve and at the bottom where you exit. Summery I like it a lot but hard to hang took for ever to arrive. Have fun

This is your sign to put a slide off the back of your deck for your grandbabies. I used a section at the end of the deck where I could fashion a safety gate where I could lock it to keep the babies from going down it when not supervised. Let me tell ya, they love it, even my 2 y.o. grand daughter goes down it over and over by herself. I built up a base to put under the very end of the slide with cinderblocks, to leave the bottom a bit more elevated off the ground for easy exit. The slide is not so steep that kids come flying out the end, it has a nice flattened area that slows them down at the end. Very easy to put together definitely need 2 people. Its a bit pricey but considering the price of a swing set, its not that bad, and alot more fun! Its super well made and will bring so many happy memories for years to come. I also hung swings under my deck, so the kids have a full "swing set" without the upkeep, appearance of a swing set or having to build one. Its fun for adults too we all go down it with the kids and still super stable.

This is really a great tube slide, both my boys love it, (8&10) I really like the tube slide since it makes it impossible for the boys to fall off the slide, and with a deck height of 7 feet, that was a concern. I found the slide easy to assemble and the directions were clear and had pictures. The directions state that it takes two persons to assemble the slide, and they way they have you do it, it would take at least two persons and they had better be strong and very patent. I was able to assemble the slide easily by myself, by not following the directions. The easy way is to assemble it on the ground by sections. First assemble the two halves of each section, then bolt the sections together until you have the whole tube bolted together laying on the ground. The tube is light enough that one person can roll it to reach all the bolts that need to be installed. The trick, is in the directions they tell you to align the bolt holes by forcing a screw driver through the holes to align them, great piece of advice, but of course as soon as you remove screw driver, the holes will move out of alignment before you could insert a bolt. The trick is to insert the screw driver or drift pin, (the tip of a needle nose pliers works best) and then use a vise grip pliers (a sheet metal vise grip pliers works best and doesn't leave a mark) to lock the pieces in place while you remove the drift pin and insert the bolt. That one trick makes putting the tube slide together a lot easier. Put the bolts in loose, and then tighten them once a joint has all the bolts are in place, that way, any out of alignment holes will be "forced" or enlarged in the right direction. Once the tube is together, roll it over to where it is going to go and tip it up into place. If you are working alone, you can nail a temporary block for the bottom edge to rest on, and use a brace on the tube to hold it against the tower while you climb up and screw in the screws. The slide comes with two brackets that bolt onto the last section joint, one attaches to the tower leg, the other supports the joint from below using a wooden support you have to build out of treated lumber, there is a diagram in the instructions. I made up a wooden cradle to support the last joint, so it supported the entire joint instead of just supporting two bolts on the joint. The weight limit for the slide is 350 lbs, there is a super turbo slide, that costs a lot more and has 50% thicker plastic but only has a weight limit of 375 lbs, but doesn't need the extra support brackets at the last joint. The slide is intended for use with the manufactures' wooden playsets and includes green metal brackets and screws for building the tower platform for the slide, but doesn't include the directions for building the tower. The directions apparently were included with the playset instructions. The price here at Amazon, ($425) was the best price on the web and was cheaper than what I could find in all the local stores. Update, nine years later the slide is still in great shape and my boys are now older and have mostly out grown tree forts. If the tree holds up, maybe someday another generation will rediscover it.

Very disappointed with the product and customer service. The slide arrived missing 2 large pieces that make up an entire section. I contacted Swing-N-Slide customer service and was met with an unwillingness to actually help or make the situation right. The customer service representative told me they were “in their down season” and could process my claim quickly. The claim, however, required me to fill out a form listing every single part, part number, and quantity received in the box. Why is that the customer’s responsibility? I paid $650 for a complete product. I shouldn’t have to inventory every individual piece to determine what the company failed to include. That should be accurately checked before the product leaves the warehouse. On top of that, I never received so much as an apology for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, the quality of the slide itself was also disappointing. The plastic is thin and flimsy, and many of the cuts/edges looked extremely rough and unfinished — honestly, like someone had taken a saw to them without much care. For the price, I expected much better quality and much better customer service. This product has not been worth the money or the hassle, and I’m extremely disappointed with the entire experience. I’ll be taking my business to a local Amish business instead, where I’ve been told I can purchase a slide for our kids. I wish I had gone that route to begin with.

First and foremost, I read a ton of the reviews and most of which said this thing was very difficult and annoying to put together. I took the advice of some other reviewers and did a few things to ensure I got it built in the shortest amount of time. From unboxing to kids sliding down it took my wife and I about 3.5 hours to build. We first put all the parts aside to ensure we had everything. We then assembled each individual piece of the slide; in other words we attached the top part to the bottom part for the sections of the slide. In order to make this go very quickly and easily I used a deep socket to hold the nut in place and then attached a nut driver to my impact drill and drilled the bolts tight. This saved a ton of time because if you had to do this by hand without a drill it would literally take forever. Here is where we changed the script; instead of building the slide in entirety and then lifting it up and attaching it to the swing set we attached the top piece of the slide to the swing set and then added the next piece to the first piece installed and so on and so forth. I was initially worried that this would be too much weight pulling on the pieces that were assembled but it ended up being fine and this was way easier then holding up this 80 pound slide and trying to get the pieces to line up to the circular cutout that was attached to the swing set. The slide is great and the kids love it. As far as sturdiness is concerned, I'm 6'2 and 240 pounds and I go down the slide no problem at all. I would recomend and certainly buy again. Also, one other thing to note, I bought the slide for $485 and like a week later it was $399. The price fluctuates greatly so keep your eyes peeled for good deals.

Our daughter LOVES this slide. She has a great time on it, which makes the fact that it was a nightmare to assemble at least worth it. The instructions that go with the slide aren't thorough at all. For some parts of the instructions we just relied on common sense and guessing to get it right. For instance, we shouldn't have to look at a picture of the finished product to figure out which way the slide turns, it should be stated in the instructions if it makes a difference. And it does make a difference. Only half of the holes lined up if put on the wrong way (slide turning counterclockwise instead of clockwise) whereas all but 2 holes lined up going the other way. Which leads me to the next complaint: not all the holes lined up . . .ever. The instructions state that some holes may need to be enlarged and that using screwdrivers on adjacent holes will help keep things lined up. This doesn't always work. We had to drill new holes in more than one place -- at least once per section. It also states that mounting the slide takes a minimum of 3 people. These shouldn't be just any 3 people but 3 good-sized people. The slide is fairly heavy and awkward when assembled making it very difficult to hold up and keep straight at the appropriate height for mounting while actually doing the mounting and referring to the instructions to be sure to mount it properly. There is also a support bracket for the base of the slide. Without this piece, the slide moves a lot while in use and doesn't seem very stable. Unfortunately, there is only a picture (and not a very detailed one) to illustrate how to make this support. We've done our best and it doesn't move nearly as much, but I'm still not sure if it's what the manufacturer actually intended. The same goes for the mounting bracket, with perhaps one sentence and one unclear picture for instruction -- it's not even clear if the mounting bracket is needed in every case or only in certain cases. It took several hours to finish and there was a lot of frustration and cussing involved, but at least it's getting used daily. The smile on my daughter's face made it worth while.

really good looking and also sturdy. please with the purchase. it was easy to set up the only thing was the bottom part to attach but overall easy

Very satisfied and quick delivery