The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, as well as has been gobbled up by millennials in outstanding quantities. While it carries a ten-year guarantee (the longest of any type of Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not always a trustworthy sign of the expected useful life of the lifting columns. However, for the rate, the StandDesk is a wonderful lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis and various other Chinese-made workdesks. Despite its stability concerns this is a far much better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever hope to be, as well as a good value in general. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide group of Chinese-made workdesks that is swaying clients from both its cheaper as well as pricier peers.

StandDesk Construction, Arrangement, and Devices

Constructing the desk is quite direct if you follow the comprehensive guidelines. Every one of the screws, bolts, washers, and springtime washers can be found in different bags that are marked with their location: tabletop, frame, and spares. There’s an included hex device for fastening all of the screws right into the frame, or, appear a hex bit into your power device– simply take care not to over-tighten.

All of the components have a top quality coating to them with rounded edges to prevent 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 assembly additionally includes height-adjustable turning equipments to support the front-to-back movement of the desk, which was really handy for the carpeted home office flooring. I’m likewise using a flooring mat to secure the rug from chair wheel damages at resting height, and press the chair when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller was worth the investment. The switches are all variable stress programmed, meaning the up and down arrows will certainly change the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or constantly change the height by around 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the button for 2 seconds. The memory buttons are comparable in layout: press to remember the elevation setting, or hold the button down for 5 seconds to keep a new height worth. I’m making use of switch 1 for my sitting position as well as button 4 for my standing setting, which gives me 2 as well as 3 for anything I might require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I’ve been utilizing the brand-new desk for a couple of weeks and have written down my initial impacts:

The electric motors are quiet yet can be listened to in the following room over. It takes possibly 25 seconds for the desk to fully shift from sitting to standing based on my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side keep an eye on arm (especially this LX design), causing the desk to obtain a little rough when I move my weight against the keyboard. In hindsight, I ought to have acquired the crossbar upgrade for my workdesk after identifying the weight of my displays. If you prepare to do a dual monitor arrangement, obtain the bar.

Since gravity presses the discs in a human spine, I need to raise the desk greater in the morning and also lower it in the evening.

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

Performance

Regardless of any type of troubles I may have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter layout, pretty much every one of those issues removed when I really came down to utilizing this thing.

I didn’t assume it was even feasible, the StandDesk somehow takes care of to be even more stable than the Jarvis, both at resting as well as standing heights. The majority of days I such as to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pushed against my wall surface; not necessarily because it’s that shaky, however just because I desire as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also additionally, proving to be equally as stable on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s crossbar addition, which they claim adds even more stability when purchased as a part of the bundle deal.When it involves weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet much more statistics with the Jarvis, being ranked for up to 350 pounds of weight capacity.

I’ve been making use of the desk for regarding three weeks currently for daily job (and also following standing workdesk best techniques), whether it’s typing out evaluations similar to this one from our desktop or a laptop computer every now and then. The desk stands up well versus non-coastered beverages, and the coating in addition to the desk still feels equally as smooth and also slick as the day I opened it in spite of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and numerous clean downs with a cloth.

Though I never ever purposefully try to dent any desks as well hard, throughout some lighter examinations (tossing a set of secrets onto it from a distance, for example), it still stood up without too many noticeable indicators of damage.

Lastly, when I gauged the noise result of the desk while it rose from a sitting setting to standing and back again, it was without a doubt the quietest we’ve tested yet. I can hardly get it to make greater than regarding 9.5 dB of noise, so if your most significant worry is the whirr of your motor, this is certainly the one for you.

Customer Service

Now, typically I do not include much regarding the customer care support of any kind of given company, only due to the fact that I feel that as a whole if an item works the way its supposed to, I shouldn’t ever before have a factor to call them to begin with. And also while I desire I could say that was the case during my experience with StandDesk, I merely can not complete this review without mentioning the numerous, apparently countless problems I ran into trying to get my desk assembled.

For starters, the desk I was sent out really did not have any type of memory mobile included originally, which meant I had no way of in fact managing the up/down function on the desk itself. I spoke to StandDesk about this problem, that got back to me around a day later with an apology as well as a guarantee that a brand-new one would be shipped out shortly.

Standdesk testimonial handset

The source of all our issues …
Regarding four days later a mobile arrived in the mail. The phone initially activated, yet it wasn’t long before I discovered that none of the programmable buttons worked, neither did the down button, but for some reason the “memory” switch took care of the down function simply fine. I contacted the firm once again, and they apologized for the mixup and stated they would certainly have a brand-new panel and control box out to me within the week.

Over two weeks later my new panel and also control box showed up. As soon as I installed them both the desk finally began working the method it was expected to, but not after almost a month of waiting and also backward and forward with a business that could not remember to ship a core part of their product inside the very same box from the get-go.

Points to Think about

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

Lack of a Crossbar as standard

Not having a maintaining bar is definitely not a deal-breaker, particularly taking into consideration a few of our various other favored workdesks such as the Totally Jarvis additionally do not have one. This desk does have one if you desire, however it is a paid add-on (a lot more on this later on too).

The crossbar is seen by some as a limitation, making it harder to position your legs pleasantly below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they provide added security, typically important when desks are fully extended.

We have not review any type of grievances of the security of this desk, so we don’t believe its something to actually be concerned about, although if you actually desired a desk with a crossbar after that we suggest you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

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

Security

The stability of a standing workdesk is among the most crucial elements of these desks. Without a steady workdesk you’ll discover it hard to concentrate, which might bring about you coming to be much less curious about using the desk at standing height. To obtain the most effective return on your investment, you’ll want to be happy when making use of the desk.

Because the StandDesk Simple is the initial desk that I have evaluated with an optional cross support, I will break down my stability tests into two areas. Both examinations will certainly include the typical front to back rocking examination and also a delegated right wobble. The first will certainly lack the cross support as well as the second will certainly be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co claims that the enhancement of the cross support can raise security by approximately 15%. I have no concept exactly how they developed that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble test was a different circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the second workdesk that I tested that tottered near the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The very first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the rocking activity misbehaved. Beyond this factor it would impact your job.

With Cross Support

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

Entrusted to Right: Including the cross support to the StandDesk boosted the wobble motion for lower elevations. With the cross support the wobble motion didn’t begin up until you got to 35″. By 39″ the wobble motion came to be bad.

Keep in mind: It’s extremely vital with flexible standing workdesks to completely tighten up all equipment. If there is equipment that is not entirely limited, the movement experienced when reached standing height will be exaggerated. This is particularly real with a workdesk framework that consists of 32 bolts, there are far too many factors 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 tighten our recommendation on the StandDesk Pro to shorter customers with narrower desktops, as the stability just isn’t there for a huge mass elevated high off the ground. American-made workdesks will certainly be much better fit to these applications, as well as for a rather noticeable factor. Virtually all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are had by Swedish, Danish or German business that invented this sector, as well as their ordinary citizens are a lot taller than the ordinary Asian customer, so they began making longer-stroke lifting legs a long period of time earlier. And they have much more robot automation, laser-cutting devices, and large experience making standing desk bases, it goes without saying.

However if you’re not also tall, don’t have an extreme quantity of hefty devices on your desktop, and also do not require as well wide of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will offer you great bang for your buck.

All that might change with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he expects to release sometime 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 emerge, as well as Yu states he’s had problem obtaining the item high quality he requires out of a number of Chinese factories he’s attempted dealing with. The new layout is apparently going to be much easier to set up as well as have a heftier bar layout, among other refinements. He states the brand-new base will be offered in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” configuration, relieving our issue about side-load emphasizing on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever before pertains to market we’ll upgrade you below. Yet we’re not holding our breath any longer as the most recent news on the business is that Yu shut the tiny Los Angeles office as well as has actually relocated it to accompany all its various other employees in southeast Asia.

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

The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, and also has actually been gobbled up by millennials in impressive quantities. While it carries a ten-year service warranty (the longest of any kind of Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not always a trusted sign of the expected useful life of the lifting columns. For the rate, the StandDesk is a fantastic lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis and other Chinese-made workdesks. Regardless of its stability issues this is a much much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant can ever before hope to be, and a good value generally. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad group of Chinese-made desks that is swaying consumers from both its less expensive and also more expensive peers.

StandDesk Construction, Arrangement, and also Devices

Developing the desk is pretty straight forward if you comply with the detailed instructions. All of the screws, bolts, washers, as well as spring washing machines can be found in different bags that are marked with their location: tabletop, frame, and also spares. There’s an included hex device for attaching all of the screws into the structure, or, pop in a hex bit into your power tool– just take care not to over-tighten.

Every one of the parts have a high quality coating to them with rounded corners to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the screws that are fastened to the leg assembly– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly also includes height-adjustable turning gears to stabilize the front-to-back movement of the desk, which was really useful for the carpeted office floor. I’m additionally making use of a flooring mat to shield the carpeting from chair wheel damages at sitting elevation, as well as push the chair when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller deserved the financial investment. The buttons are all variable pressure set, meaning the backwards and forwards arrows will adjust the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or continuously adjust the elevation by around 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the button for 2 seconds. The memory switches are comparable in layout: push to remember the elevation setup, or hold the button down for 5 secs to save a brand-new height worth. I’m utilizing button 1 for my sitting position and also button 4 for my standing placement, which offers me 2 as well as 3 for anything I may need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I’ve been utilizing the brand-new desk for a couple of weeks as well as have documented my initial impressions:

The electric motors are quiet but can be heard in the following room over. It takes probably 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 monitor arm (specifically this LX version), creating the desk to get a little rough when I move my weight versus the key-board. In knowledge, I must have acquired the crossbar upgrade for my workdesk after identifying the weight of my displays. If you plan to do a twin display setup, obtain the bar.

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

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

Efficiency

Regardless of any kind of troubles I might have had with the mobile phone or the cookie-cutter design, basically all of those issues washed away as soon as I in fact got down to utilizing this point.

Although I didn’t think it was even possible, the StandDesk somehow handles to be much more steady than the Jarvis, both at sitting as well as standing heights. Most days I like to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pressed versus my wall; not always because it’s that wobbly, however just because I want as much security as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also further, showing to be just as stable by itself at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s bar addition, which they assert includes a lot more stability when bought as a part of the package deal.When it pertains to weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more statistics with the Jarvis, being ranked for up to 350 lbs of weight ability.

I have actually been utilizing the desk for concerning three weeks currently for everyday work (and also complying with standing workdesk finest practices), whether it’s typing out evaluations such as this one from our desktop or a laptop every now and then. The desk stands up well versus non-coastered beverages, as well as the surface on top of the desk still feels just as smooth and also slick as the day I opened it in spite of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and multiple clean downs with a dustcloth.

I never purposefully try to damage any desks also hard, throughout some lighter tests (throwing a set of secrets onto it from a range, for instance), it still held up without also lots of visible indications of damage.

When I gauged the noise output of the workdesk while it climbed from a resting placement to standing and back once again, it was by far the quietest we’ve examined. I can barely get it to make greater than concerning 9.5 dB of sound, so if your biggest issue is the whirr of your electric motor, this is most definitely the one for you.

Customer care

Currently, usually I don’t include much about the client service assistance of any offered business, just since I really feel that as a whole if an item works the way its expected to, I should not ever before have a reason to call them in the first place. As well as while I wish I can state that held true throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can’t finish this testimonial without pointing out the various, relatively countless troubles I encountered attempting to obtain my desk created.

For starters, the desk I was sent out really did not have any memory mobile phone included originally, which implied I had no chance of really managing the up/down function on the desk itself. I called StandDesk about this issue, that returned to me around a day later with an apology as well as a pledge that a new one would be shipped quickly.

Standdesk evaluation handset

The source of all our problems …
About 4 days later on a phone showed up in the mail. The handset at first switched on, however it wasn’t long prior to I saw that none of the programmable buttons worked, neither did the down switch, but for some reason the “memory” button took care of the down function just great. I contacted the firm once more, as well as they apologized for the mixup and stated they would certainly have a brand-new panel as well as control box bent on me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later on my new panel as well as control box got here. When I mounted them both the desk lastly started functioning the means it was supposed to, but not after practically a month of waiting as well as backward and forward with a firm that could not bear in mind to ship a core part of their item inside the exact same box from the get-go.

Things to Take into consideration

In spite of its bankable features, this stand desk also has its own drawbacks. Because no singular stand desk could capture every one of the features that you might require, you may consider these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Crossbar as requirement

Not having a supporting crossbar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, specifically taking into consideration some of our various other favorite workdesks such as the Completely Jarvis also don’t have one. Actually, this desk does have one if you want, yet it is a paid add-on (a lot more on this later too).

The bar is seen by some as a limitation, making it more difficult to put your legs conveniently listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they supply included security, often vital when desks are completely expanded.

We have not check out any kind of grievances of the security of this workdesk, so we do not think its something to really be worried about, although if you actually desired a desk with a crossbar after that we recommend you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

StandDesk does supply a different add-on crossbar that you can include to the desk on your own, simply for an additional $49.95.

Security

The security of a standing desk is one of one of the most essential elements of these desks. Without a secure workdesk you’ll discover it hard to concentrate, which can bring about you ending up being less thinking about using the desk at standing height. To get the most effective return on your investment, you’ll want to be happy when utilizing the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the very first workdesk that I have evaluated with an optional cross assistance, I will break down my security tests into 2 sections. Both tests will certainly include the common front to back rocking test and also a left to appropriate wobble. The very first will lack the cross assistance and also the second will certainly be with it. Just to note, StandDesk.co claims that the addition of the cross support can raise stability by approximately 15%. I have no suggestion just how they developed that number.

Without Cross Support

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

With Cross Support

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

Left to Right: Adding the cross support to the StandDesk enhanced the wobble activity for lower heights. With the cross assistance the wobble motion didn’t start up until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble activity became negative.

Keep in mind: It’s really vital with adjustable standing desks to completely tighten all hardware. If there is equipment that is not completely limited, the movement experienced when reached standing height will be exaggerated. This is particularly true with a workdesk framework that includes 32 screws, there are far way too many points at which the desk has an opportunity to move.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually examined in our laboratories, we have to narrow our recommendation on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter users with narrower desktops, as the stability simply isn’t there for a large mass raised high off the ground. American-made workdesks will be much better matched to these applications, as well as for a rather evident reason. Basically all American-made bases are made in US manufacturing facilities that are owned by Swedish, Danish or German firms that created this sector, as well as their typical residents are a lot taller than the average Asian customer, so they began making longer-stroke lifting legs a very long time ago. And also they have far more robot automation, laser-cutting equipment, and also sheer experience making standing desk bases, it goes without saying.

But if you’re not as well high, don’t have an inordinate amount of hefty tools on your desktop, as well as do not require as well wide of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will offer you excellent bang for your buck.

All that may transform with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he anticipates to launch at some point in the future. Initially we were informed we would certainly see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later on it has yet to materialize, and Yu states he’s had trouble getting the item top quality he needs out of numerous Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s tried working with. The brand-new design is allegedly mosting likely to be a lot easier to assemble and also have a heftier crossbar layout, to name a few refinements. He claims the brand-new base will certainly be offered in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” arrangement, reducing our concern regarding side-load worrying on the lifting columns.

If this new base ever before comes to market we’ll update you below. But we’re not holding our breath any kind of longer as the most current information on the company is that Yu closed the tiny Los Angeles office and has transferred it to accompany all its various other employees in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a brand-new $399 standing desk with remarkable performance has been introduce through the brand-new joint venture in between US-based iMovR and China-based Eureka, the i1 electrical standing desk. While restricted in size and shade alternatives, it has taken the mantle far from StandDesk’s long-ago standing as the most effective standing desk under $400.