Hi-Tech Building Systems Insulated Cedar Duplex Dog House Review

I expected better product for my $$$

"I ordered the doghouse with porch. The good thing is that it does provide protection for the dogs. My dogs don't particularly like being in doghouse (it's just them, they used to have two doghouses and they preferred to stay under the shed), so the porch is great for keeping them out of the rain. And it's good that the "doghouse proper" is there for them when winter comes to NJ. BUT, the doghouse was way too difficult to set up! I just moved so I had to put together quite a few furniture items together. The doghouse is by far the most difficult to set up. Granted it's for outdoor use so not quite comparable w/ indoor furniture, but still... I put together all the indoor furniture by myself. I had to have the help from a handyman to put the doghouse together. We worked a couple hours to set up the doghouse proper, then a couple hours another day to set up the porch. The worst part is, the porch didn't fit quite right with the doghouse. We had to unscrew and move a small part to make it fit at the bottom. The top part of the porch was by design to just sit on the pillars and edge of the doghouse. There is no way that the porch would stay together like that. My dogs would have bumped it off right away. So the handyman shot lots of extra screws into the thing to make sure it would stay together. When we were done the pillars weren't quite upright, but that's the way the holes were where they joined the top and bottom of the porch. Good thing the handyman had the screw gun. Very useful!



So, I'm happy to have this thing for my dogs, but I had expected better product for the amount of money paid!"