GUTINNEEN Large Outdoor Insulated Dog House Weatherproof Dog Kennel Dog Shelter with Chew-Proof Full Metal Frame, 360° Rotatable Spill-Proof Bowl, Openable Roof for Large Dog Breeds, 39.7″ L

Excellent! Easy assembly and well made
I love these so much! My dogs love them too! I use them for my outside farm dogs. When layered with hay, I have clocked the internal temperature to be well above freezing in 10° weather. Having said that however, I should note that I bought one size down than what I would normally buy for the size dogs I have. The smaller space is much warmer and they seem to really enjoy it. When first bedded down with hay they have a tighter space but once the hay has been matted down the way they want it, they have enough space to tuen around, lay down and snuggle in. Often when I call them in, they’d rather stay in their houses!They are very sturdy, easy to put together and appear to be very durable. I like that the lids open making hay replacing or cleaning so much easier. I do say that it’s easier to assemble with two people. Especially attaching the lid. But I’m a 60 year old female with some physical limitations and I managed it without too much struggle. It just took a little longer and some patience.I recommend these highly if you have dogs that enjoy being outdoors more than in.

Very Nice dog house, instructions needs improvement in some areas.
I will answer my views in reference to an earlier review someone wrote:Other review: Hinge and latch screws are tiny and pull out easily:My answer: Yes, they are small, but I don’t think they will ever pull out as the lid has additional locking side hinges on both sides of the roof inside. I don’t think they meant they “pulled out easily” but instead they had concern they would.Other review: Very soft wood, and won’t last long in the elements if not protected:My answer: Yes, the wood is soft to make twisting the wood screws in easy enough without splitting the wood, but not too soft. They might be correct about the wood not being weatherproofed enough, I just don’t know, it might be alright and surely has some kind of sealant on it as it is yellow, far more yellow than bare wood.Other review: Insulated portion is nice but have not plugged in heater yet do to temp being between 60 and 80:My answer: I plugged in the heater but can only guess the wattage as the manufacture refuses to provide this information anywhere on any web site, my guess is 60 watts. My thought regarding the lack of information about the heater pad wattage or power is very poor of them not to include this.Other review: Simple to assemble:My answer: Easy enough, did so alone, took about an hour and twenty minutes, maybe more.Other review: You will need a small and medium sized Phillips screwdriver. Wood is so soft almost no pressure needed. Feels like they melt into wood:My answer: This is a good thing, it appears to be pine wood, but not so soft as to be a problem and plenty durable enough in my view. I’m very happy they used real wood instead of something else. I had to tap on the end of the screw driver inserted into screw heads to get them started, so not that soft.Other review: The PVC strips for door will likely pull off just from dog entering and exiting due to soft wood and tiny screws, that is if you can convince your dog to enter with it on, which i have only been able to do by placing treats in back corner. He crawls in shaking and darts out for each treat:My answer: I doubt very much the plastic sheeting over the door will ever pull off due to a dog darting in and out as it is thick enough and well compressed to the side of the wood, very well compressed, won’t pull out. My dog was hesitant to enter at first, but when putting some bacon on a plate inside she changed her mind.Other review: The pvc was all twisted and out of shape too so use a heat hug…carefully to get it back in shape to hang right. It looks nice when assembled but not sure that will last long:My answer, they must have meant heat rug, not heat hug, although in a way it is a heat hug. I put a dog bed inside on top of it, I wouldn’t use the heat cushion with the heat rug below it supplied alone just because it doesn’t seem as comfortable for my dog as I would like it to be. The heat rugs durability itself appears good though. The “PVC”, as the last reviewer called it, was packed nicely and not all twisted up. It is folded up inside the box, perhaps that is what they meant.Other review: Roof is thick and heavy but the shingle gravel falls off and/or sticks to whatever touches it. The box was full of it and like a dummy I opened in the house……it was everywhere:My answer: Yes, when I opened the box and saw a lot of fine black specs, (what they call gravel in that other review) and my wife wasn’t happy to have them spread on the floor when pulling the pieces out of the box where I was assembling inside the house, calling them sticky and difficult to clean up. When I first opened the box and saw those black specs inside I thought they were tiny bugs when it was just these fine grain sand-like granules from the roof top.Other review: When it arrives, it is in a large box weighing about 75lbs:My answer: Yes it is a heavy box, not too easy to pull over the doorway jam and slide into the living room by myself but I am pushing towards 70 years of age, not as strong as I used to be.My summary: Overall, I give this four stars, the reason for not giving five is although the small screws for the doghouse roof appear strong enough, they are rather small, I imagine that is why four screws per hinge were used instead of two or three per hinge. Although small, they appear to do the job well enough, I just don’t like them that small.Also, the instructions were clear for most of it, but not all of it. I had quite the time figuring out where to put the heating mat, they made a statement about inserting it between some insulation, I thought they meant to unzip the floor panel, which I misidentified as a side panel which did have a zipper, and it couldn’t fit, of course. Also, they could improve showing where to put the wooden blocks acting as feet on the underside of the the floor, I had to do that over as I didn’t center one of them properly for the second screw on one side to join the two floor pieces and barely missed the edge of the block, there is nothing in the assembly manual indicating exactly where exactly to put that foot in the middle, just a drawing which is difficult to really understand.Warning: If you use a knife to open the box from the face, be careful, they pack the soft padding which goes inside the dog house right on the surface of one side, too easy to cut and there is no printed warning on the box.