I started to put the desk together and the instruction manual was fine. I followed it exactly and quadruple checked everything but the steel bar that runs underneath the user-side of the desktop didn't fit into the cutouts in the legs. Whether the bar was in the wrong place or the cutouts were I'm not sure. Anyway, the separate pieces themselves are very sturdy and the desk is lovely when put together, but I had to modify it. Adding my own cutouts for the steel bar and also some of the fixings didn't line up with the pre drilled holes from the factory, so I had to leave out 4 fixings from the desktop and ended up driving my own screws to hold the rack-side and the user-side of the desk down, luckily I managed to do that without any screws showing and I had the tools and knowhow. Be wary of the desk, if the few holes weren't misaligned I'd be giving it full stars. I decided not to try return it as it would have been a pain and I am happy with how it functions and looks, just a shame I had to fix what they had done wrong!