Palram Canopia Rion Sun Room 6 Ft. x 6 Ft. Solarium, Lean-to Greenhouse DIY Kit, Attach to House, Large Twin Wall Polycarbonate, 100% UV Protection for Porch, Patio Outdoors with Window Vent (White)

This added a whole new room to our house. It is now my favorite place to be. I’m growing strawberries, lettuce and herbs and they are thriving. I also have plants and flowers, added a tv, settee and chair and lastly a fountain. Installation takes patience and perseverance and I did hire my friend to put this together, but it was a bit of a puzzle. I Love it!!!!

I spent a lot of time reading reviews before purchasing this. For that reason I had a special concrete pad poured for this project. One thing that was difficult to discern in the product write-ups was the overall dimensions. This was important for ensuring the product fit our pad and under the wall to which it is now attached. For your information, the dimensions are interior dimensions. The materials are 3.5” add that appropriately. The elevation dimension is 97.5”, just over 8’—leaving me about 3/4” in my workspace for this to fit. Eeek. Putting it together was not difficult, but some steps require patience in order to get all of the joints to fit together at once. Plan two good work days for this. We put it together in late fall (2019) in WIsconsin and weather and cold made it take longer than that. But, again, I say be patient. Take it step by step and you will be very pleased with the result. I did not rate durability, as I haven’t had it long enough to make that determination, but all appears solid.

This “kit” is not for the faint of heart, but doable. Instruction manual is picture-based and needs to be followed closely. The end result is charming, and even with heavy rain stayed dry.I love it

I bought the Rion Sun Room in October, and realized that this really does need to be installed professionally.First of all, the Sun room arrived late. Which I don't mind too much: while I had to pay an installation person for an hour to his time waiting when the delivery people had confirmed multiple times they were going to show up, amazon did refund $75 to me, so that covered what it had cost.There are three real issues:1. The sun room size isn't what they say. The dimensions reported aren't even accurately internal dimensions, although that's the closest. Add ATLEAST 6" to your space plan before ordering this, or go and buy from a place where you can see and measure. In my case, this ended up costing me $1500 to fix my deck, so I could accommodate the size.2. The installation is hard! Don't fall for "easy to put together on your own in a few hours". I hired a really good handyman to do this, who we use for complicated projects, and it took his two full working days to assemble. It cost me almost $1000 to get this assembled. Do account for that cost when you order this sun room.3. The lock is stuck. The quality, ultimately, is really poor. The lock isn't broken. It's just stuck. The feel of the sun room is cheap. Overall, when I look back on the tradeoff I was trying to make between cost and easy/OK quality, this was not a winner.I would have been better off adding a little bit more money to what I spend and getting a sun room which would be exactly where I wanted it (vs the lean against wall variety), and would be a lot better quality and sturdier in the long run.This is a good idea, but isn't the quality and Do-it-yourself ease to hit prime time.Will update this review as my experience with the sun room progresses. For now, am planning to take off the lock entirely and put duct tape on there.UPDATE: It rarely snows in Seattle, but it does occasionally. Well, clearly this sun room should not be used in any place snow is a possibility. When it snowed, the snow weighed the panels down and they collapsed. This isn't an accumulation over time. Just ONE snow! It hadn't even finished snowing for me to get out and clean up the accumulation on top of the sun room. Basically, the materials are too cheap to really withstand any weather. Save your money. Get a real shed or sun room. Regretting having spent such a sizeable sum on a complete disaster.

So we are a whole month going into (trying to) assemble this horrible kit. The pieces are finniky, and I promise you, you will reassemble and assemble 75% of this project at least two times. My husband is an engineer so it is not the instructions that are bad. In fact the instructions are amazing, but the parts don't exactly fit like legos. We need HOT soap and water to make things slide, and even then...there are bolts that are clearly in the way and unable to facilitate the parts to move together as intended in the assembly guide. The heavy sheet metal pieces seemingly have no room for where they are supposed to go.... This kit is a NIGHTMARE, but I tell you, the parts we have up seem amazing. the pieces are well made, they just DONT FIT! I will not give up, and if it ever gets completed I do believe it will be VERY good....but nothing goes together right..... NOTHING.

Very pleased with this greenhouse. The engineering of the frame is impressive. I would've liked the plexiglass to have been a little thicker but that's a minimal beef.Give yourself a solid 2 days to put it up. I consider myself pretty handy and it was still a bit difficult in some areas. You will definitely need help at least a few times during installation, so keep that in mind. The weather stripping for each pane is a nice touch.All in all, great product. We'll see how the plexiglass holds up to hail, but it's very sturdy system and should hold up to some pretty good winds.

it was difficult to piece together, nuts and bolts were missing but once it was up it looks great. I'm using it to enclose my hot tub.

Read the manual. Not just during assembly but read ahead before you do the work. Every part down the last screw was included. All the parts fit as advertised. The structure is as expected. It flexes because it’s plastic. The finished product looks good and works well. I found myself setting in the shed reading the manual. I assembled and re assembled a section or two before I began to take the instructions seriously. The whole structure is held together with small plastic T shaped pins. All the holes do not get pins. Again, read the manual. The base and the wall MUST be square. I spent a couple of hours measuring and re measuring the base to make sure it was square. In the end I was off just a tad, not enough to notice. In the end it all worked out as expected.