The StandDesk was developed by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, and also has been gobbled up by millennials in impressive quantities. While it carries a ten-year service warranty (the longest of any Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not always a dependable indicator of the expected valuable life of the training columns. For the cost, the StandDesk is a terrific lower-cost alternative to the UpLift, Jarvis as well as various other Chinese-made workdesks. In spite of its security concerns this is a far much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever hope to be, and also a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad category of Chinese-made desks that is winning over clients from both its less expensive as well as costlier peers.

StandDesk Building And Construction, Configuration, and Gizmos

Constructing the desk is pretty direct if you comply with the comprehensive directions. Every one of the screws, bolts, washing machines, and spring washing machines come in separate bags that are marked with their location: tabletop, structure, as well as spares. There’s a consisted of hex device for fastening every one of the bolts right into the framework, or, appear a hex bit right into your power tool– just beware not to over-tighten.

All of the parts have a high quality finish to them with rounded corners to avoid cut hands. Below is a shot of all the bolts that are secured to the leg assembly– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly additionally includes height-adjustable turning equipments to support the front-to-back movement of the desk, which was really handy for the carpeted office floor. I’m additionally utilizing a flooring mat to safeguard the rug from chair wheel damage at sitting elevation, and press the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller was worth the financial investment. The switches are all variable stress configured, indicating the backwards and forwards arrowheads will certainly readjust the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continually readjust the elevation by about 0.7 inches per second if you hold the button for 2 secs. The memory switches are similar in style: press to remember the height setting, or hold the button down for 5 seconds to save a brand-new height value. I’m using switch 1 for my resting position and also button 4 for my standing setting, which gives me 2 and also 3 for anything I could need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I’ve been making use of the brand-new desk for a couple of weeks and have made a note of my preliminary perceptions:

The motors are quiet but can be heard in the next space over. It takes possibly 25 secs for the desk to fully shift from sitting to standing based on my presets.
I use an Ergotron side-by-side monitor arm (particularly this LX design), triggering the desk to get a little rocky when I change my weight versus the keyboard. In knowledge, I ought to have purchased the crossbar upgrade for my desk after determining the weight of my screens. If you plan to do a dual monitor configuration, obtain the bar.

Since gravity compresses the discs in a human spinal column, I need to raise the desk higher in the early morning and reduced it at night.

An anti-fatigue mat is absolutely vital for long period of time standing. I bought an Octagonal floor covering from SmartCells, using rubber “cells” that are imagined listed below.

Performance

Regardless of any kind of troubles I may have had with the handset or the cookie-cutter design, pretty much every one of those problems gotten rid of as soon as I actually came down to using this point.

I really did not assume it was also possible, the StandDesk in some way handles to be even much more stable than the Jarvis, both at resting and standing elevations. A lot of days I like to run my Jarvis at max height while pressed against my wall surface; not necessarily due to the fact that it’s that unsteady, however just because I desire as much security as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also additionally, showing to be just as stable on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the business’s bar addition, which they declare includes even more stability when purchased as a part of the package deal.When it pertains to weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet much more statistics with the Jarvis, being ranked for up to 350 pounds of weight ability.

I’ve been using the desk for concerning 3 weeks currently for everyday work (and also following standing desk best techniques), whether it’s keying out testimonials such as this one from our desktop computer or a laptop computer from time to time. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered beverages, as well as the surface in addition to the desk still feels just as smooth and glossy as the day I opened it in spite of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it as well as several clean downs with a cloth.

I never ever purposefully try to damage any type of workdesks also hard, throughout some lighter examinations (throwing a collection of secrets onto it from a distance, for example), it still held up without as well many visible indicators of damages.

When I measured the sound output of the desk while it rose from a resting placement to standing as well as back again, it was by far the quietest we have actually examined. I could barely get it to make more than about 9.5 dB of noise, so if your biggest issue is the whirr of your electric motor, this is certainly the one for you.

Customer Service

Currently, usually I don’t consist of much regarding the customer service support of any kind of offered company, only because I feel that as a whole if an item works the method its meant to, I shouldn’t ever before have a reason to call them to begin with. As well as while I desire I could claim that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can not finish this review without mentioning the numerous, apparently countless troubles I came across trying to obtain my workdesk created.

For starters, the desk I was sent really did not have any type of memory mobile phone consisted of originally, which meant I had no way of actually managing the up/down feature on the desk itself. I spoke to StandDesk about this concern, that returned to me around a day later with an apology and also a pledge that a brand-new one would certainly be shipped out shortly.

Standdesk testimonial handset

The resource of all our issues …
Regarding 4 days later a mobile arrived in the mail. The phone initially activated, however it had not been long before I noticed that none of the programmable buttons functioned, nor did the down button, however, for some reason the “memory” switch dealt with the down feature simply great. I called the business once again, as well as they excused the mixup and also claimed they would certainly have a new panel as well as control box out to me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later on my new panel as well as control box got here. Once I mounted them both the desk finally began working the way it was expected to, yet not after nearly a month of waiting and back and forth with a firm that couldn’t bear in mind to ship a core element of their product inside the same box from the beginning.

Points to Consider

Despite its bankable functions, this stand desk additionally has its very own disadvantages. Because no particular stand workdesk might capture all of the attributes that you might need, you might consider these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Bar as criterion

Not having a stabilizing crossbar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, particularly taking into consideration a few of our various other favorite workdesks such as the Fully Jarvis additionally do not have one. In fact, this workdesk does have one if you desire, yet it is a paid add-on (a lot more on this later too).

The crossbar is seen by some as an obstacle, making it more challenging to put your legs pleasantly below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they provide added security, often crucial when workdesks are fully extended.

We have not check out any type of issues of the stability of this workdesk, so we don’t think its something to actually be worried regarding, although if you truly desired a workdesk with a bar then we suggest you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Alternatively, StandDesk does offer a different add-on bar that you can contribute to the desk on your own, just for an additional $49.95.

Security

The security of a standing workdesk is just one of one of the most essential aspects of these workdesks. Without a steady workdesk you’ll find it hard to concentrate, which might lead to you becoming much less interested in using the desk at standing elevation. To obtain the very best return on your investment, you’ll wish to more than happy when utilizing the desk.

Due To The Fact That the StandDesk Simple is the very first desk that I have checked with an optional cross assistance, I will break down my security tests right into two sections. Both examinations will certainly consist of the regular front to back rocking test and a delegated best wobble. The initial will be without the cross assistance and the second will certainly be with it. Just to note, StandDesk.co says that the enhancement of the cross support can enhance security by as much as 15%. I have no idea how they generated that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble test was a different situation. StandDesk Simple was the second desk that I evaluated that wobbled near the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the shaking motion was bad. Beyond this factor it would influence your work.

With Cross Support

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

Left to Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk boosted the wobble motion for lower heights. With the cross assistance the wobble motion didn’t start up until you got to 35″. By 39″ the wobble activity ended up being negative.

Keep in mind: It’s extremely vital with flexible standing desks to fully tighten up all hardware. If there is equipment that is not completely limited, the movement experienced when included standing height will be exaggerated. This is specifically true with a desk frame that includes 32 screws, there are much too many points at which the desk has a chance to relocate.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve examined in our laboratories, we need to narrow our referral on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter users with narrower desktops, as the stability simply isn’t there for a big mass raised high off the ground. American-made workdesks will be better fit to these applications, and also for a relatively apparent reason. Practically all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German firms that invented this industry, as well as their typical people are a whole lot taller than the average Oriental consumer, so they began making longer-stroke training legs a long time back. As well as they have much more robotic automation, laser-cutting devices, as well as large experience making standing workdesk bases, needless to say.

But if you’re not also high, don’t have an extreme amount of hefty equipment on your desktop, and do not need too wide of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will give you good bang for your buck.

All that could change with Yu’s assured StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he anticipates to release at some point in the future. Initially we were told we would certainly see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later it has yet to appear, and also Yu states he’s had problem getting the item top quality he requires out of several Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s tried dealing with. The new design is supposedly mosting likely to be much easier to construct as well as have a heftier crossbar design, among other refinements. He says the brand-new base will be used in both a “T-Leg” and “C-Leg” configuration, alleviating our worry about side-load worrying on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever before concerns market we’ll update you below. But we’re not holding our breath any longer as the most current information on the business is that Yu shut the little Los Angeles office and has actually transferred it to join with all its various other staff members in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a new $399 standing workdesk with outstanding efficiency has actually been present via the new joint venture in between US-based iMovR as well as China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing desk. While restricted in size and shade options, it has taken the mantle far from StandDesk’s long-ago condition as the very best standing desk under $400.

The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed straight at millennials, and has actually been gobbled up by millennials in outstanding volumes. While it carries a ten-year service warranty (the lengthiest of any kind of Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not necessarily a reputable indication of the anticipated helpful life of the lifting columns. But also for the cost, the StandDesk is a terrific lower-cost alternative to the UpLift, Jarvis and other Chinese-made desks. Despite its stability concerns this is a far much better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant might ever before wish to be, as well as a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad category of Chinese-made workdesks that is gaining consumers from both its more affordable and pricier peers.

StandDesk Construction, Configuration, and also Devices

Developing the desk is pretty direct if you adhere to the thorough instructions. Every one of the screws, bolts, washers, as well as spring washers come in separate bags that are marked with their destination: tabletop, structure, and spares. There’s an included hex tool for attaching all of the screws into the structure, or, appear a hex bit into your power tool– just take care not to over-tighten.

Every one of the components have a top quality surface to them with rounded corners to avoid 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 likewise includes height-adjustable turning equipments to stabilize the front-to-back movement of the desk, which was extremely useful for the carpeted office flooring. I’m likewise making use of a floor mat to shield the rug from chair wheel damages at resting height, and also press the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller deserved the investment. The switches are all variable stress programmed, implying the backwards and forwards arrowheads will readjust the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or constantly change the elevation by around 0.7 inches per second if you hold the button for two seconds. The memory switches are comparable in design: push to remember the height setting, or hold the button down for five secs to keep a brand-new height value. I’m utilizing button 1 for my sitting placement and also switch 4 for my standing placement, which gives me 2 and 3 for anything I may require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I’ve been utilizing the brand-new workdesk for a few weeks as well as have actually jotted down my initial impressions:

The motors are quiet however can be listened to in the following room over. It takes perhaps 25 secs for the desk to completely change from sitting to standing based on my presets.
I utilize an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (particularly this LX design), creating the desk to obtain a little rough when I shift my weight against the key-board. In knowledge, I need to have purchased the crossbar upgrade for my workdesk after determining the weight of my displays. If you plan to do a twin display configuration, obtain the bar.

Since gravity presses the discs in a human spinal column, I need to increase the desk greater in the morning and also reduced it in the evening.

An anti-fatigue mat is definitely important for long period of time standing. I purchased an Octagonal floor covering from SmartCells, using rubber “cells” that are envisioned below.

Performance

In spite of any kind of problems I may have had with the mobile or the cookie-cutter layout, virtually all of those issues gotten rid of when I in fact came down to utilizing this thing.

Although I really did not believe it was even possible, the StandDesk in some way manages to be even more steady than the Jarvis, both at resting and also standing elevations. A lot of days I like to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pushed against my wall; not necessarily due to the fact that it’s that wobbly, yet even if I desire as much security as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even additionally, showing to be equally as constant by itself at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the firm’s crossbar addition, which they assert adds much more security when purchased as a part of the package deal.When it concerns weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet even more statistics with the Jarvis, being ranked for as much as 350 lbs of weight capability.

I have actually been using the desk for about 3 weeks currently for daily job (and following standing workdesk finest practices), whether it’s keying out testimonials such as this one from our desktop or a laptop every so often. The desk stands up well versus non-coastered beverages, and the coating on top of the desk still really feels equally as smooth as well as slick as the day I opened it regardless of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it as well as multiple clean downs with a rag.

I never ever intentionally try to dent any type of workdesks also hard, throughout some lighter examinations (tossing a set of secrets onto it from a distance, for example), it still held up without as well numerous visible indications of damage.

When I gauged the sound result of the workdesk while it climbed from a sitting placement to standing and back once more, it was by much the quietest we’ve checked. I can barely get it to make greater than about 9.5 dB of sound, so if your largest issue is the whirr of your electric motor, this is certainly the one for you.

Client service

Now, usually I don’t consist of much regarding the customer care assistance of any kind of given firm, only due to the fact that I really feel that in general if an item functions the means its supposed to, I shouldn’t ever before have a factor to call them in the first place. And also while I want I might say that was the case during my experience with StandDesk, I simply can not finish this review without discussing the many, relatively endless troubles I experienced trying to obtain my workdesk put together.

For starters, the desk I was sent didn’t have any kind of memory mobile included originally, which implied I had no way of actually controlling the up/down feature on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk concerning this issue, that returned to me around a day later on with an apology and also a guarantee that a brand-new one would certainly be shipped out quickly.

Standdesk evaluation handset

The source of all our issues …
Regarding 4 days later a mobile arrived in the mail. The mobile at first turned on, yet it had not been long prior to I observed that none of the programmable switches worked, neither did the down button, but also for some reason the “memory” button took care of the down feature simply great. I called the firm once again, and they apologized for the mixup as well as claimed they would certainly have a brand-new panel and also control box out to me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later on my brand-new panel and control box arrived. When I mounted them both the desk ultimately began functioning the way it was meant to, however not after virtually a month of waiting and to and fro with a business that couldn’t keep in mind to ship a core part of their product inside the same box from the get-go.

Things to Think about

Despite its bankable features, this stand desk likewise has its very own downsides. Because no particular stand workdesk can catch every one of the functions that you may require, you might consider these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Crossbar as requirement

Not having a maintaining crossbar is certainly not a deal-breaker, particularly thinking about a few of our various other favored desks such as the Fully Jarvis additionally do not have one. This workdesk does have one if you desire, but it is a paid add-on (much more on this later on too).

The crossbar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it harder to place your legs comfortably below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they provide added stability, commonly vital when workdesks are totally expanded.

We have not check out any issues of the security of this desk, so we don’t think its something to actually be concerned regarding, although if you actually wanted a workdesk with a bar then we advise you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Additionally, StandDesk does use a separate add-on crossbar that you can contribute to the desk yourself, just for an added $49.95.

Stability

The security of a standing desk is one of one of the most important aspects of these workdesks. Without a stable workdesk you’ll find it difficult to concentrate, which could cause you ending up being less thinking about utilizing the desk at standing height. To get the best return on your investment, you’ll intend to more than happy when utilizing the desk.

Due To The Fact That the StandDesk Simple is the very first workdesk that I have actually tested with an optional cross assistance, I will certainly break down my stability examinations right into two areas. Both tests will consist of the typical front to back shaking examination and also a delegated best wobble. The initial will certainly lack the cross assistance as well as the secondly will be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co claims that the addition of the cross assistance can enhance stability by up to 15%. I have no idea exactly how they generated that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a various circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the second workdesk that I evaluated that wobbled near the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The very first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the rocking motion was bad. Yet point it would affect your job.

With Cross Support

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

Left to Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk boosted the wobble activity for lower heights. With the cross assistance the wobble activity didn’t begin until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement came to be poor.

Note: It’s extremely vital with flexible standing workdesks to completely tighten all hardware. If there is hardware that is not entirely tight, the movement experienced when included standing elevation will be exaggerated. This is particularly true with a workdesk frame that consists of 32 screws, there are far way too many factors at which the desk has an opportunity to relocate.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually examined in our laboratories, we have to tighten our suggestion on the StandDesk Pro to shorter users with narrower desktop computers, as the security just isn’t there for a big mass raised high off the ground. American-made workdesks will be much better suited to these applications, and for a fairly noticeable reason. Basically all American-made bases are made in US manufacturing facilities that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German firms that designed this industry, as well as their typical citizens are a great deal taller than the average Oriental consumer, so they began making longer-stroke training legs a very long time back. And also they have much more robot automation, laser-cutting equipment, as well as large experience making standing desk bases, it goes without saying.

However if you’re not as well high, do not have an extreme quantity of heavy tools on your desktop, and also don’t require also wide of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly offer you excellent value.

All that could transform with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he anticipates to launch sometime in the future. Initially we were informed we would certainly see it by June 2018. More than a year later it has yet to appear, and also Yu states he’s had problem obtaining the product high quality he needs out of numerous Chinese factories he’s tried collaborating with. The new layout is allegedly going to be a lot easier to put together and have a heftier crossbar layout, to name a few refinements. He says the brand-new base will certainly be used in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” setup, relieving our concern concerning side-load emphasizing on the training columns.

If this new base ever involves market we’ll upgrade you here. But we’re not holding our breath any type of longer as one of the most current information on the firm is that Yu closed the little Los Angeles workplace as well as has transferred it to join with all its other staff members in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a new $399 standing workdesk with excellent performance has actually been introduce via the new joint endeavor between US-based iMovR as well as China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing desk. While limited in size and also shade choices, it has taken the mantle far from StandDesk’s long-ago status as the best standing workdesk under $400.