The StandDesk was created by millennials, is marketed straight at millennials, and has been demolished by millennials in impressive quantities. While it lugs a ten-year guarantee (the lengthiest of any Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not always a trustworthy indicator of the anticipated beneficial life of the training columns. But for the cost, the StandDesk is a wonderful lower-cost alternative to the UpLift, Jarvis and various other Chinese-made workdesks. In spite of its stability concerns this is a far much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant can ever wish to be, as well as a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad group of Chinese-made workdesks that is winning over consumers from both its less expensive as well as costlier peers.

StandDesk Building, Setup, as well as Devices

Building the desk is pretty straight forward if you comply with the comprehensive instructions. Every one of the screws, bolts, washing machines, as well as springtime washing machines been available in separate bags that are marked with their location: tabletop, framework, as well as spares. There’s a consisted of hex device for fastening all of the screws right into the framework, or, pop in a hex bit into your power tool– simply be careful not to over-tighten.

Every one of the components have a premium quality coating to them with rounded corners to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the screws that are attached to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly likewise consists of height-adjustable rotation gears to stabilize the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was extremely practical for the carpeted office flooring. I’m additionally using a flooring mat to shield the rug from chair wheel damage at resting elevation, as well as push the chair when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller was worth the investment. The buttons are all variable stress set, indicating the up and down arrows will adjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continuously readjust the elevation by around 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the button for 2 secs. The memory buttons are similar in layout: push to remember the height setting, or hold the button down for 5 seconds to save a new height value. I’m making use of switch 1 for my resting placement and also button 4 for my standing placement, which offers me 2 as well as 3 for anything I might require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I’ve been making use of the new workdesk for a few weeks as well as have actually written down my initial impacts:

The electric motors are quiet however can be listened to in the following space over. It takes maybe 25 secs for the desk to totally transition from resting to standing based on my presets.
I use an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (especially this LX design), causing the desk to obtain a little rough when I move my weight against the keyboard. In hindsight, I need to have acquired the bar upgrade for my workdesk after determining the weight of my monitors. If you intend to do a dual display configuration, obtain the crossbar.

Because gravity presses the discs in a human spine, I need to elevate the desk higher in the morning and lower it in the evening.

An anti-fatigue floor covering is definitely vital for long period of time standing. I bought an Octagonal floor covering from SmartCells, making use of rubber “cells” that are visualized listed below.

Efficiency

Regardless of any type of troubles I may have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter design, virtually every one of those issues removed once I in fact came down to utilizing this point.

I didn’t think it was also possible, the StandDesk in some way manages to be also much more steady than the Jarvis, both at resting as well as standing heights. Most days I like to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pushed against my wall; not necessarily since it’s that wobbly, however just because I desire as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even further, proving to be equally as stable by itself at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s bar enhancement, which they claim includes a lot more security when bought as a part of the bundle deal.When it concerns weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for as much as 350 pounds of weight capability.

I’ve been utilizing the desk for about 3 weeks now for daily job (and adhering to standing desk best techniques), whether it’s keying out reviews such as this one from our desktop or a laptop computer from time to time. The desk holds up well against non-coastered drinks, and also the surface on top of the desk still really feels just as smooth as well as slick as the day I opened it despite days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and also multiple clean downs with a cloth.

I never ever intentionally attempt to dent any type of workdesks also hard, throughout some lighter tests (tossing a set of tricks onto it from a range, for example), it still held up without as well several visible indicators of damage.

Last but not least, when I determined the sound output of the desk while it increased from a resting position to standing and also back once again, it was without a doubt the quietest we’ve tested yet. I could hardly get it to make greater than about 9.5 dB of sound, so if your largest concern is the whirr of your motor, this is most definitely the one for you.

Customer care

Currently, normally I don’t consist of much regarding the customer support assistance of any given company, just since I really feel that in general if a product works the means its supposed to, I shouldn’t ever before have a factor to call them to begin with. And while I wish I can state that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I just can not complete this testimonial without discussing the many, relatively limitless issues I came across trying to obtain my desk assembled.

For starters, the desk I was sent really did not have any memory handset consisted of originally, which implied I had no way of in fact managing the up/down function on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk concerning this issue, who returned to me around a day later with an apology and also a pledge that a new one would certainly be shipped out shortly.

Standdesk testimonial handset

The resource of all our troubles …
About four days later a handset arrived in the mail. The phone originally turned on, but it had not been long before I discovered that none of the programmable buttons functioned, neither did the down switch, but for some factor the “memory” switch took care of the down function just fine. I contacted the company once more, as well as they excused the mixup as well as stated they would certainly have a new panel and control box out to me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later on my new panel and also control box showed up. When I mounted them both the desk ultimately began working the way it was intended to, but not after practically a month of waiting and backward and forward with a company that couldn’t remember to deliver a core part of their item inside the same box from the beginning.

Points to Think about

Regardless of its bankable functions, this stand up workdesk additionally has its very own disadvantages. Given that no single stand desk can record all of the features that you might need, you may take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Absence of a Bar as requirement

Not having a stabilizing bar is certainly not a deal-breaker, especially considering some of our various other favored desks such as the Totally Jarvis additionally don’t have one. In fact, this desk does have one if you want, however it is a paid add-on (extra on this later on as well).

The bar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it harder to position your legs easily below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they offer added security, typically crucial when desks are completely extended.

We have not check out any type of problems of the stability of this workdesk, so we do not think its something to really be worried about, although if you really wanted a workdesk with a crossbar then we suggest you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

StandDesk does offer a separate add-on crossbar that you can include to the workdesk on your own, simply for an additional $49.95.

Stability

The security of a standing workdesk is one of one of the most essential elements of these workdesks. Without a steady desk you’ll find it tough to focus, which can cause you becoming less thinking about utilizing the desk at standing height. To get the very best return on your financial investment, you’ll wish to be happy when utilizing the desk.

Due To The Fact That the StandDesk Simple is the very first desk that I have actually examined with an optional cross support, I will break down my security tests into two areas. Both examinations will certainly consist of the regular front to back rocking test as well as a left to best wobble. The first will certainly be without the cross assistance as well as the secondly will be with it. Just to note, StandDesk.co says that the enhancement of the cross assistance can increase security by as much as 15%. I have no suggestion how they developed that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a various scenario. StandDesk Simple was the second desk that I checked that wobbled near the bottom with weight on the desktop. The very first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the rocking movement misbehaved. Yet point it would certainly affect your work.

With Cross Support

Front to Back: Including the cross support does not affect the shaking activity. The StandDesk Simple started to experienced a shaking activity at 36″. By 41″ the rocking motion misbehaved.

Delegated Right: Adding the cross support to the StandDesk improved the wobble motion for reduced heights. With the cross assistance the wobble motion really did not start until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement ended up being poor.

Note: It’s very crucial with adjustable standing workdesks to fully tighten up all hardware. If there is hardware that is not totally limited, the activity experienced when encompassed standing height will be overemphasized. This is particularly real with a workdesk structure that consists of 32 screws, there are far a lot of factors at which the desk has an opportunity to relocate.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually checked in our laboratories, we need to narrow our suggestion on the StandDesk Pro to shorter individuals with narrower desktop computers, as the stability just isn’t there for a large mass boosted high off the ground. American-made desks will be better suited to these applications, and also for a rather obvious factor. Essentially all American-made bases are made in US factories that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German firms that invented this market, as well as their average people are a lot taller than the ordinary Oriental customer, so they began making longer-stroke lifting legs a very long time back. And also they have far more robot automation, laser-cutting devices, and also large experience making standing desk bases, obviously.

But if you’re not too high, don’t have an excessive quantity of heavy equipment on your desktop computer, and don’t require as well wide of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly offer you good value.

All that could change with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he anticipates to launch sometime in the future. Originally we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later on it has yet to appear, as well as Yu states he’s had problem obtaining the item top quality he needs out of numerous Chinese factories he’s tried working with. The brand-new design is supposedly mosting likely to be much easier to assemble and also have a heftier crossbar design, among other refinements. He claims the brand-new base will certainly be used in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” configuration, reducing our issue concerning side-load stressing on the training columns.

If this new base ever before comes to market we’ll upgrade you here. We’re not holding our breath any kind of longer as the most current news on the company is that Yu closed the little Los Angeles workplace and also has actually transferred it to join with all its other workers in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a new $399 standing desk with excellent efficiency has actually been present with the new joint venture between US-based iMovR and also China-based Eureka, the i1 electrical standing workdesk. While limited in dimension as well as color options, it has actually taken the mantle away from StandDesk’s long-ago status as the most effective standing workdesk under $400.

The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, as well as has actually been gobbled up by millennials in excellent volumes. While it carries a ten-year guarantee (the longest of any Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not necessarily a reliable indicator of the anticipated valuable life of the lifting columns. For the rate, the StandDesk is a fantastic lower-cost option to the UpLift, Jarvis as well as various other Chinese-made workdesks. In spite of its security problems this is a far better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before hope to be, and a good value generally. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide group of Chinese-made desks that is gaining clients from both its less expensive and also more expensive peers.

StandDesk Building, Configuration, as well as Gadgets

Building the desk is pretty simple if you comply with the detailed instructions. All of the screws, bolts, washing machines, as well as spring washing machines come in different bags that are marked with their location: tabletop, framework, and spares. There’s an included hex tool for attaching every one of the bolts right into the framework, or, pop in a hex little bit into your power tool– just beware not to over-tighten.

Every one of the parts have an excellent quality finish to them with rounded edges to stay clear of cut hands. Below is a shot of all the bolts that are fastened to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot setting up additionally includes height-adjustable rotation gears to support the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was extremely practical for the carpeted home office floor. I’m also making use of a flooring mat to shield the carpeting from chair wheel damages at sitting height, and also press the chair when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller was worth the financial investment. The buttons are all variable stress programmed, implying the backwards and forwards arrowheads will certainly change the height by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or continually adjust the height by about 0.7 inches per second if you hold the button for two seconds. The memory buttons are comparable in design: press to recall the elevation setup, or hold the button down for 5 seconds to keep a new height worth. I’m making use of button 1 for my sitting placement as well as button 4 for my standing placement, which gives me 2 and also 3 for anything I may require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I have actually been utilizing the brand-new workdesk for a few weeks and have written down my initial perceptions:

The motors are quiet but can be heard in the following area over. It takes probably 25 secs for the desk to completely change from sitting to standing based upon my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side monitor arm (particularly this LX version), triggering the desk to get a little rough when I move my weight against the key-board. In knowledge, I need to have bought the bar upgrade for my workdesk after establishing the weight of my monitors. If you prepare to do a twin display setup, get the bar.

Because gravity presses the discs in a human spine, I need to increase the desk greater in the morning and reduced it in the evening.

An anti-fatigue floor covering is definitely necessary for long duration standing. I bought an Octagonal mat from SmartCells, using rubber “cells” that are pictured below.

Performance

Despite any type of problems I might have had with the mobile or the cookie-cutter layout, basically all of those concerns washed away when I actually got down to utilizing this thing.

I didn’t think it was also possible, the StandDesk in some way handles to be even a lot more secure than the Jarvis, both at resting as well as standing elevations. A lot of days I like to run my Jarvis at max height while pressed versus my wall surface; not necessarily due to the fact that it’s that unsteady, yet even if I desire as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even additionally, showing to be just as constant on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the business’s crossbar enhancement, which they assert includes much more security when bought as a part of the plan deal.When it pertains to weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet even more statistics with the Jarvis, being rated for as much as 350 pounds of weight capability.

I have actually been utilizing the desk for concerning three weeks now for day-to-day job (as well as following standing workdesk finest methods), whether it’s keying out testimonials similar to this one from our desktop computer or a laptop computer periodically. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered beverages, as well as the coating in addition to the desk still feels just as smooth and slick as the day I opened it regardless of days of sweaty wrists wresting on it and multiple wipe downs with a cloth.

Though I never intentionally attempt to dent any workdesks as well hard, throughout some lighter tests (tossing a set of tricks onto it from a range, for example), it still stood up without way too many visible indications of damages.

When I determined the sound output of the workdesk while it increased from a resting position to standing and back once again, it was by much the quietest we have actually checked. I might barely get it to make more than concerning 9.5 dB of sound, so if your biggest concern is the whirr of your electric motor, this is most definitely the one for you.

Customer support

Now, usually I do not include much regarding the client service assistance of any type of offered firm, only because I feel that in general if a product works the method its meant to, I should not ever before have a reason to call them to begin with. And while I want I can say that was the case during my experience with StandDesk, I just can not finish this review without stating the countless, relatively endless issues I encountered attempting to get my workdesk assembled.

For starters, the desk I was sent didn’t have any memory mobile consisted of initially, which implied I had no chance of really managing the up/down feature on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk regarding this issue, that got back to me around a day later with an apology and also a guarantee that a new one would be shipped shortly.

Standdesk review handset

The resource of all our problems …
Regarding 4 days later a mobile phone showed up in the mail. The mobile initially switched on, but it wasn’t long prior to I noticed that none of the programmable switches functioned, nor did the down switch, however, for some reason the “memory” switch handled the down function just fine. I got in touch with the business once more, and also they apologized for the mixup as well as said they would have a brand-new panel and control box bent on me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later my new panel as well as control box got here. When I installed them both the desk finally started functioning the method it was intended to, but not after virtually a month of waiting and also back and forth with a company that couldn’t keep in mind to ship a core component of their item inside the exact same box from the start.

Things to Think about

Despite its bankable attributes, this stand workdesk additionally has its own drawbacks. Since no particular stand workdesk could record all of the features that you may need, you may think about these in your decision-making.

Absence of a Bar as standard

Not having a stabilizing bar is certainly not a deal-breaker, especially considering some of our other favored desks such as the Fully Jarvis likewise do not have one. As a matter of fact, this workdesk does have one if you desire, yet it is a paid add-on (extra on this later on too).

The bar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it tougher to place your legs comfortably listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they give included security, frequently important when desks are totally extended.

We have not check out any kind of problems of the stability of this desk, so we do not think its something to truly be worried regarding, although if you truly wanted a desk with a crossbar then we suggest you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

StandDesk does provide a separate add-on crossbar that you can add to the workdesk yourself, simply for an extra $49.95.

Stability

The stability of a standing desk is among one of the most vital aspects of these desks. Without a secure workdesk you’ll find it hard to focus, which might bring about you ending up being less thinking about making use of the desk at standing height. To obtain the best return on your investment, you’ll wish to be happy when making use of the desk.

Because the StandDesk Simple is the initial desk that I have actually evaluated with an optional cross support, I will break down my stability tests into 2 sections. Both tests will consist of the normal front to back shaking test and also an entrusted to right wobble. The initial will certainly be without the cross assistance as well as the secondly will certainly be with it. Simply to keep in mind, StandDesk.co says that the enhancement of the cross support can boost stability by as much as 15%. I have no idea exactly how they came up with that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a various scenario. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd desk that I checked that tottered near the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the rocking activity was bad. Yet factor it would impact your work.

With Cross Support

Front to Back: Including the cross assistance does not affect the rocking activity. The StandDesk Simple began to experienced a shaking activity at 36″. By 41″ the shaking motion was bad.

Left to Right: Adding the cross support to the StandDesk boosted the wobble motion for lower heights. With the cross assistance the wobble movement didn’t start till you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement became poor.

Keep in mind: It’s very important with flexible standing workdesks to totally tighten all hardware. If there is hardware that is not completely limited, the activity experienced when extended to standing height will certainly be exaggerated. This is specifically true with a workdesk structure that consists of 32 bolts, there are much too many points at which the desk has a possibility to move.

Verdict

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve tested in our laboratories, we have to narrow our suggestion on the StandDesk Pro to shorter individuals with narrower desktops, as the stability simply isn’t there for a big mass raised high off the ground. American-made desks will be much better suited to these applications, and also for a relatively obvious factor. Basically all American-made bases are made in United States factories that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German companies that developed this market, as well as their typical residents are a lot taller than the average Asian customer, so they started making longer-stroke lifting legs a long time earlier. And they have much more robotic automation, laser-cutting devices, and large experience making standing desk bases, obviously.

If you’re not also tall, do not have an extreme amount of heavy equipment on your desktop computer, as well as do not need too vast of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will offer you good bang for your dollar.

All that might transform with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he expects to release sometime in the future. Initially we were told we would certainly see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later it has yet to emerge, as well as Yu states he’s had difficulty getting the product high quality he requires out of numerous Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s attempted dealing with. The brand-new style is supposedly mosting likely to be much easier to put together and also have a heftier crossbar style, to name a few improvements. He states the new base will certainly be used in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” arrangement, easing our concern about side-load stressing on the lifting columns.

If this new base ever before pertains to market we’ll update you right here. We’re not holding our breath any kind of longer as the most current news on the firm is that Yu shut the small Los Angeles workplace and also has transferred it to join with all its other staff members in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a brand-new $399 standing workdesk with remarkable efficiency has been introduce through the brand-new joint endeavor in between US-based iMovR and China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing desk. While limited in size as well as color choices, it has taken the mantle away from StandDesk’s long-ago status as the best standing desk under $400.