After watching the informational video we went outside to set it up. Very easy, just unroll and inflate. Blew up in less than a minute. Next you need to attach the tubing for the water to go down the slide and spray out the cannons. It filled up to maximum capacity after about 2-3 hours of play. The bounce house comes with stakes and we did stake down the four corners although it comes with many more. When you deflate the water will rush out the front by the cannons. There was about one gallon of water left in the corners when we reinflated it to dry out. We scooped it out and then dried the rest off with a beach towel. It was not easy to compactly roll up but it doesn't matter because it will be out almost every nice day this summer. We are going to rotate the placement in our yard but you will have the most damage where the impact of the children's bottom hits the bottom of the slide and right at that edge outside the pool where they jump out to run around to get back up the slide. Now fun stuff, i have three kids and we had three friends over and the six of them played for 3 hours. I think they will sleep very soundly tonight. ??