The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, and has been gobbled up by millennials in outstanding volumes. While it carries a ten-year warranty (the longest of any type of Chinese-made base), in this situation it’s not necessarily a dependable sign of the expected useful life of the lifting columns. However, for the cost, the StandDesk is a wonderful lower-cost alternative to the UpLift, Jarvis and other Chinese-made workdesks. Regardless of its security concerns this is a far much better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant can ever before hope to be, and also a good value on the whole. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad classification of Chinese-made workdesks that is gaining consumers from both its more affordable and also costlier peers.

StandDesk Building, Setup, and also Devices

Building the desk is pretty simple if you comply with the thorough instructions. Every one of the screws, screws, washers, and also springtime washing machines been available in separate bags that are marked with their destination: table top, framework, as well as spares. There’s an included hex device for attaching every one of the screws into the structure, or, appear a hex bit right into your power tool– just take care not to over-tighten.

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

Standdesk-Leg

The foot setting up likewise includes height-adjustable turning gears to maintain the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was very useful for the carpeted home office flooring. I’m likewise making use of a flooring mat to safeguard the carpeting from chair wheel damages at sitting elevation, and press the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller was worth the investment. The switches are all variable pressure set, implying the backwards and forwards arrows will adjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continually adjust the elevation by around 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the button for two seconds. The memory buttons are similar in layout: press to recall the height setup, or hold the button down for five seconds to save a new height worth. I’m using switch 1 for my sitting setting and button 4 for my standing placement, which provides me 2 and 3 for anything I might need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I’ve been making use of the new workdesk for a couple of weeks and have actually made a note of my initial impacts:

The motors are quiet yet can be listened to in the next space over. It takes perhaps 25 secs for the desk to totally change from sitting to standing based on my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (particularly this LX design), creating the desk to obtain a little rocky when I move my weight against the key-board. In hindsight, I must have bought the crossbar upgrade for my workdesk after establishing the weight of my displays. If you prepare to do a double display configuration, obtain the crossbar.

Because gravity presses the discs in a human spine, I require to raise the desk higher in the morning and also reduced it in the evening.

An anti-fatigue mat is absolutely necessary for long duration standing. I purchased an Octagonal mat from SmartCells, using rubber “cells” that are visualized listed below.

Efficiency

Despite any troubles I might have had with the handset or the cookie-cutter design, basically all of those concerns washed away once I actually came down to utilizing this thing.

Although I didn’t believe it was also feasible, the StandDesk in some way manages to be much more stable than the Jarvis, both at resting and also standing heights. The majority of days I such as to run my Jarvis at max height while pushed against my wall surface; not always because it’s that shaky, but just because I want as much stability as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even further, confirming to be equally as steady on its own at standing height as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the firm’s crossbar addition, which they claim adds a lot more stability when bought as a part of the package deal.When it comes to weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet even more statistics with the Jarvis, being rated for approximately 350 pounds of weight capability.

I have actually been utilizing the desk for regarding three weeks currently for daily job (and also following standing workdesk finest methods), whether it’s keying out testimonials like this one from our desktop or a laptop periodically. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered beverages, and also the surface in addition to the desk still really feels just as smooth and glossy as the day I opened it regardless of days of sweaty wrists wresting on it as well as numerous clean downs with a dustcloth.

I never ever deliberately attempt to damage any workdesks as well hard, during some lighter examinations (throwing a collection of tricks onto it from a distance, for instance), it still held up without too many noticeable indicators of damages.

Last but not least, when I measured the sound output of the desk while it increased from a resting position to standing as well as back once more, it was by far the quietest we have actually evaluated yet. I can barely get it to make more than about 9.5 dB of noise, so if your biggest issue is the whirr of your motor, this is most definitely the one for you.

Client service

Now, usually I do not include much about the customer support support of any type of given firm, just because I really feel that as a whole if a product works the method its intended to, I should not ever have a factor to call them to begin with. As well as while I want I might claim that held true during my experience with StandDesk, I just can not finish this review without mentioning the countless, apparently limitless problems I came across trying to get my desk put together.

For starters, the desk I was sent out didn’t have any type of memory handset consisted of originally, which meant I had no chance of in fact controlling the up/down feature on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk regarding this concern, who got back to me around a day later with an apology as well as an assurance that a brand-new one would be shipped out soon.

Standdesk testimonial handset

The source of all our troubles …
About four days later a mobile got here in the mail. The mobile phone originally activated, yet it had not been long before I saw that none of the programmable switches functioned, nor did the down switch, but also for some reason the “memory” button took care of the down feature simply great. I spoke to the business once more, as well as they excused the mixup as well as said they would have a new panel and also control box bent on me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later on my brand-new panel and control box showed up. As soon as I installed them both the desk lastly began working the means it was intended to, but not after almost a month of waiting as well as back and forth with a business that could not remember to ship a core component of their product inside the same box from the outset.

Things to Consider

Despite its bankable features, this stand desk also has its very own disadvantages. Given that no single stand workdesk might catch every one of the functions that you may require, you might think about these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Bar as criterion

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

The crossbar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it tougher to put your legs conveniently below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they give added security, commonly essential when workdesks are totally prolonged.

We have not review any type of problems of the security of this desk, so we don’t think its something to really be concerned about, although if you actually wanted a workdesk with a crossbar after that we recommend 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 stability of a standing workdesk is just one of one of the most vital facets of these desks. Without a secure workdesk you’ll locate it hard to concentrate, which can lead to you coming to be much less thinking about using the desk at standing elevation. To obtain the most effective return on your financial investment, you’ll wish to more than happy when making use of the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the initial desk that I have examined with an optional cross assistance, I will break down my security tests into 2 areas. Both tests will include the common front to back shaking test and an entrusted to appropriate wobble. The first will certainly be without the cross support and the second will certainly be with it. Simply to keep in mind, StandDesk.co states that the enhancement of the cross assistance can boost stability by as much as 15%. I have no suggestion just how they developed that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble test was a different situation. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd desk that I checked that tottered at the bottom with weight on the desktop. The very first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the rocking motion misbehaved. Yet point it would certainly affect your work.

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 activity was bad.

Delegated Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk boosted the wobble motion for reduced elevations. With the cross support the wobble activity really did not start till you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement became negative.

Note: It’s very important with adjustable standing workdesks to totally tighten all equipment. If there is equipment that is not completely limited, the motion experienced when included standing elevation will certainly be overemphasized. This is especially true with a workdesk frame that consists of 32 screws, there are far too many points at which the desk has an opportunity to move.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve evaluated in our labs, we need to narrow our referral on the StandDesk Pro to shorter users with narrower desktops, as the security just isn’t there for a huge mass raised high off the ground. American-made desks will be better fit to these applications, as well as for a fairly evident factor. Practically all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are owned by Swedish, Danish or German firms that designed this market, and their ordinary residents are a great deal taller than the average Oriental customer, so they started making longer-stroke lifting legs a long time back. And they have even more robot automation, laser-cutting equipment, and large experience making standing desk bases, obviously.

If you’re not as well tall, don’t have an extreme amount of heavy tools on your desktop, as well as don’t require also wide of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will provide you excellent bang for your buck.

All that could change with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he expects to launch sometime in the future. Originally we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. More than a year later it has yet to appear, and also Yu states he’s had difficulty obtaining the item high quality he requires out of a number of Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s tried working with. The brand-new style is supposedly going to be a lot easier to put together and also have a heftier crossbar layout, to name a few refinements. He states the brand-new base will certainly be offered in both a “T-Leg” and “C-Leg” configuration, reducing our problem about side-load stressing on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever concerns market we’ll upgrade you below. But we’re not holding our breath any type of longer as one of the most current news on the company is that Yu shut the little Los Angeles office as well as has moved it to accompany all its other workers in southeast Asia.

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

The StandDesk was created by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, as well as has been gobbled up by millennials in remarkable quantities. While it carries a ten-year warranty (the longest of any type of Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not necessarily a dependable sign of the anticipated beneficial life of the training columns. However, for the cost, the StandDesk is a wonderful lower-cost alternative to the UpLift, Jarvis as well as various other Chinese-made desks. Despite its stability concerns this is a far better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before wish to be, as well as a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad classification of Chinese-made workdesks that is gaining customers from both its less expensive as well as pricier peers.

StandDesk Construction, Arrangement, as well as Gizmos

Developing the desk is rather straight forward if you comply with the thorough guidelines. All of the screws, bolts, washers, and springtime washers been available in different bags that are marked with their location: table top, structure, and spares. There’s an included hex tool for securing every one of the bolts right into the frame, or, pop in a hex bit into your power tool– simply beware not to over-tighten.

Every one of the components have a high quality finish to them with rounded corners to stay clear of cut hands. Below is a shot of all the screws that are fastened to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly additionally includes height-adjustable rotation gears to maintain the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was extremely useful for the carpeted home office flooring. I’m likewise utilizing a floor mat to secure the carpet from chair wheel damages at sitting height, and push the chair when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller was worth the financial investment. The buttons are all variable pressure programmed, meaning the backwards and forwards arrows will readjust the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continually change the height by about 0.7 inches per second if you hold the button for two secs. The memory buttons are comparable in style: press to remember the elevation setting, or hold the button down for five secs to keep a brand-new height worth. I’m using switch 1 for my resting placement and switch 4 for my standing position, which gives me 2 and also 3 for anything I could require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I have actually been utilizing the brand-new workdesk for a few weeks and also have documented my preliminary perceptions:

The electric motors are quiet however can be heard in the following area over. It takes possibly 25 seconds for the desk to totally transition from resting to standing based on my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (especially this LX model), triggering the desk to get a little rough when I move my weight against the key-board. In hindsight, I need to have purchased the bar upgrade for my workdesk after determining the weight of my screens. If you plan to do a dual monitor arrangement, obtain the crossbar.

Since gravity compresses the discs in a human spinal column, I require to elevate the desk greater in the early morning and reduced it at night.

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

Performance

Regardless of any type of troubles I may have had with the mobile or the cookie-cutter layout, practically every one of those issues washed away once I in fact came down to utilizing this thing.

Although I didn’t think it was even possible, the StandDesk somehow handles to be a lot more steady than the Jarvis, both at sitting and also standing elevations. Most days I such as to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pressed against my wall surface; not always because it’s that wobbly, however even if I want as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also additionally, proving to be equally as stable by itself at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the firm’s bar addition, which they claim adds even more stability when purchased as a part of the plan deal.When it concerns weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more statistics with the Jarvis, being rated for as much as 350 pounds of weight capability.

I’ve been utilizing the desk for regarding three weeks now for day-to-day job (and also following standing desk finest techniques), whether it’s inputting out testimonials like this one from our desktop computer or a laptop every so often. The desk holds up well against non-coastered beverages, and the coating in addition to the desk still really feels just as smooth as well as glossy as the day I opened it regardless of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and also several clean downs with a cloth.

Though I never ever intentionally attempt to damage any type of desks also hard, throughout some lighter tests (tossing a collection of secrets onto it from a distance, for example), it still held up without too many noticeable indicators of damage.

Last but not least, when I measured the noise result of the desk while it rose from a sitting setting to standing and also back once again, it was by far the quietest we have actually evaluated yet. I could barely get it to make greater than about 9.5 dB of noise, so if your most significant concern is the whirr of your motor, this is certainly the one for you.

Customer Service

Currently, normally I don’t consist of much about the client service support of any type of provided business, only due to the fact that I feel that in general if an item works the way its meant to, I should not ever have a reason to call them to begin with. As well as while I want I can claim that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can not complete this testimonial without pointing out the countless, seemingly limitless problems I encountered trying to obtain my workdesk assembled.

For starters, the desk I was sent didn’t have any memory phone included initially, which indicated I had no way of actually controlling the up/down feature on the desk itself. I called StandDesk concerning this concern, that got back to me around a day later on with an apology as well as a pledge that a new one would certainly be shipped soon.

Standdesk testimonial handset

The resource of all our issues …
About four days later on a mobile arrived in the mail. The handset initially switched on, but it wasn’t long prior to I noticed that none of the programmable buttons functioned, nor did the down button, but for some reason the “memory” switch managed the down function simply great. I contacted the business once again, as well as they apologized for the mixup and stated they would have a new panel as well as control box out to me within the week.

Over two weeks later on my new panel as well as control box showed up. Once I installed them both the desk lastly started functioning the method it was intended to, however not after nearly a month of waiting and also back and forth with a firm that couldn’t remember to ship a core part of their product inside the very same box from the beginning.

Points to Take into consideration

Despite its bankable attributes, this stand workdesk also has its very own drawbacks. Because no particular stand workdesk can capture every one of the attributes that you may need, you might take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Absence of a Bar as standard

Not having a stabilizing bar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, especially thinking about a few of our other favorite workdesks such as the Totally Jarvis additionally do not have one. As a matter of fact, this workdesk does have one if you want, however it is a paid add-on (a lot more on this later also).

The bar is seen by some as a limitation, making it more challenging to place your legs conveniently listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they give added stability, commonly important when workdesks are completely expanded.

We have not check out any kind of complaints of the stability of this desk, so we don’t think its something to actually be concerned concerning, although if you actually wanted a workdesk with a crossbar then we suggest you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

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

Security

The stability of a standing desk is one of the most crucial elements of these desks. Without a secure desk you’ll locate it tough to focus, which might lead to you coming to be much less interested in utilizing the desk at standing height. To obtain the most effective return on your financial investment, you’ll intend to enjoy when making use of the desk.

Because the StandDesk Simple is the initial desk that I have checked with an optional cross assistance, I will break down my stability examinations into two sections. Both examinations will certainly consist of the regular front to back rocking test and also an entrusted to ideal 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 enhance stability by approximately 15%. I have no suggestion exactly how they generated that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a various circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd desk that I tested that wobbled at the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The very first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the shaking activity was bad. Yet point it would affect your work.

With Cross Support

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

Entrusted to Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk boosted the wobble motion for reduced heights. With the cross support the wobble motion didn’t begin till you got to 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement came to be bad.

Note: It’s very crucial with adjustable standing workdesks to totally tighten all hardware. If there is equipment that is not entirely tight, the motion experienced when reached standing height will be overemphasized. This is specifically real with a workdesk structure that includes 32 screws, there are much way too many points at which the desk has an opportunity to move.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve checked in our labs, we need to tighten our recommendation on the StandDesk Pro to shorter users with narrower desktops, as the stability just isn’t there for a big mass elevated high off the ground. American-made desks will certainly be much better fit to these applications, and for a relatively apparent reason. Basically all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are had by Swedish, Danish or German companies that invented this market, and their typical citizens are a lot taller than the ordinary Asian consumer, so they started making longer-stroke lifting legs a long period of time earlier. And they have even more robotic automation, laser-cutting tools, as well as sheer experience making standing workdesk bases, it goes without saying.

But if you’re not also high, do not have an excessive quantity of heavy tools on your desktop computer, and also do not require as well wide of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly give you good bang for your buck.

All that might change with Yu’s assured StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he expects to release at some point in the future. Initially we were informed we would certainly see it by June 2018. More than a year later on it has yet to materialize, as well as Yu states he’s had difficulty obtaining the product high quality he requires out of numerous Chinese factories he’s tried dealing with. The new design is allegedly mosting likely to be a lot easier to put together as well as have a heftier bar style, among other refinements. He says the new base will be supplied in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” arrangement, easing our problem concerning side-load stressing on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever before pertains to market we’ll update you below. We’re not holding our breath any longer as the most recent information on the company is that Yu shut the tiny Los Angeles workplace as well as has actually transferred it to join with all its other employees in southeast Asia.

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