Jora JK400 Composter - 14.2 Cubic Feet

This transaction was difficult, but not because of Earth Easy. FedEx screwed this up. Thanks to awesome company customer service (thank you Gillian Williams) for putting up with my incessant emails, calls and plethora of pictures, and promptly responding. I never felt like I had to hunt down help from Earth Easy customer service). After what seemed like more than a month of trying to get a replacement box of damaged and missing parts to me….it finally made it! We love it. Thank you Gillian for all your help, you were awesome. The compost bin is sturdy, and well made. I expect many years of happy composting as a result of the quality.

Was a little difficult to line up the different panels during installation. With some readjusting it finally went together. Took about 3 hours total. Now that’s it’s together it looks great and working excellent.

Fairly easy to assemble, good looking, (makes the neighbor jealous) and works well. Easy to load. Well made. Very pleased with this.

We looked for a very long time before selecting the Jora JK400 to meet our composter needs. We are very impressed with the size of the two composting areas, how well constructed it is, and the ease of operation. We chose to replace the Phillips head screws that are used to hold the long panels to the ends with Hex head screws because it made it easier for one person to assemble. If we could give it six stars we would and highly recommend it to anyone who wants a non-plastic/greener solution that will last decades.

Just finished putting it together, and setting in place, yesterday. Written instructions were very difficult to follow, but the online video was excellent. Srewing in the outer 6 panels wasn’t easy to do alone. Glad I had some long clamps to clamp it down and line up screw holes.

You have to think about front and back (relative to the cross-bracing) and which side you want the handle on. Written instructions should stress that. I had to partially disassemble and reverse things to get the handle on the correct( for me) side.

Thanks to the video, it all went together very nicely. All the screws were there.

I’m curious to see how well the insulation panels hold up. I was surprised that there wasn’t a thin shield to protect it. The insulation material must be very tough.

And so now —-, I just have to deal with the raccoon!

I was super pumped to order my Jora JK400 finally after dreaming about it for a few years. Unfortunately, mine arrived damaged during shipping. It was just a few dings and I'm pretty handy so I did a little tinsmithing to make it work. Based on the packaging, I had a feeling that if I went through an exchange, the replacement would probably come back damaged as well. It is a great selling point when you see free shipping on a large item like this, but in my opinion, it should be palletized. I would love to know what percentage of these things arrive damaged and get shipped back and arrive damaged again.

Aside from that, the unit works great! I really like its sturdy construction and it does a great job holding the heat in to facilitate decomposition. I was a little disappointed with the foam on the inside of it. I thought it would be plastic over the top of the foam similar to the center divider, but that is not the case. Also, there is a different type of foam used on the doors than the rest of the interior. The foam on the doors is far superior in my opinion. Not sure why they didn't use that stuff throughout the whole interior.

Ultimately, I think I probably got the best composter out there, but it could stand to have a few improvements.

I was asked to review the compost but unfortunately cannot as I have parts missing. The order was placed May 18. Two pieces were missing. One of the parts arrived within a couple of weeks. It is now June 30 and I am still missing the second part.