The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, and also has been demolished by millennials in excellent quantities. While it lugs a ten-year warranty (the lengthiest of any Chinese-made base), in this situation it’s not always a trustworthy indication of the expected useful life of the lifting columns. For the rate, the StandDesk is a great lower-cost option to the UpLift, Jarvis as well as various other Chinese-made workdesks. Regardless of its stability concerns this is a far much better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant can ever wish to be, and also a good value generally. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad category of Chinese-made workdesks that is gaining clients from both its less expensive and also more expensive peers.

StandDesk Construction, Configuration, as well as Gadgets

Constructing the desk is pretty direct if you follow the detailed guidelines. All of the screws, bolts, washing machines, and spring washing machines come in separate bags that are marked with their location: tabletop, frame, and also spares. There’s an included hex device for securing all of the screws into the structure, or, appear a hex little bit right into your power device– just take care not to over-tighten.

Every one of the components have an excellent quality coating to them with rounded edges to prevent 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 likewise includes height-adjustable rotation equipments to support the front-to-back motion of the desk, which was very valuable for the carpeted home office floor. I’m additionally using a flooring mat to safeguard the rug from chair wheel damages at resting elevation, and also press the chair when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller deserved the financial investment. The switches are all variable pressure set, implying the backwards and forwards arrowheads will certainly adjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or constantly readjust the height by around 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the button for 2 secs. The memory switches are comparable in style: press to recall the height setup, or hold the button down for 5 secs to keep a new height value. I’m utilizing switch 1 for my resting placement as well as switch 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 few weeks as well as have actually written down my initial impacts:

The motors are quiet but can be heard in the following room over. It takes probably 25 seconds for the desk to completely transition from sitting to standing based upon my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side keep an eye on arm (especially this LX design), triggering the desk to get a little rocky when I change my weight versus the key-board. In hindsight, I ought to have bought the bar upgrade for my desk after establishing the weight of my monitors. If you intend to do a double screen setup, obtain the bar.

Due to the fact that gravity presses the discs in a human back, I require to elevate the desk higher in the morning and also lower it in the evening.

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

Performance

Despite any kind of issues I might have had with the handset or the cookie-cutter design, practically every one of those issues washed away as soon as I in fact came down to utilizing this point.

I really did not assume it was even possible, the StandDesk in some way manages to be even much more steady than the Jarvis, both at sitting and also standing heights. Most days I such as to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pushed versus my wall; not necessarily since it’s that shaky, however just because I want as much stability as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also additionally, verifying to be equally as stable on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the business’s crossbar addition, which they assert includes a lot more security when purchased as a part of the plan deal.When it involves weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for approximately 350 lbs of weight capability.

I have actually been making use of the desk for concerning three weeks currently for everyday job (and complying with standing desk best methods), whether it’s typing out testimonials like this one from our desktop or a laptop from time to time. The desk stands up well versus non-coastered beverages, and the surface on top of the desk still feels equally as smooth and slick as the day I opened it regardless of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it as well as several clean downs with a cloth.

Though I never deliberately attempt to dent any type of workdesks too hard, during some lighter examinations (throwing a collection of secrets onto it from a range, as an example), it still stood up without way too many visible indications of damages.

Lastly, when I gauged the noise outcome of the desk while it rose from a resting position to standing and back once again, it was by far the quietest we’ve tested yet. I might hardly get it to make more than about 9.5 dB of sound, so if your largest concern is the whirr of your electric motor, this is definitely the one for you.

Customer Service

Now, normally I don’t consist of much concerning the customer support assistance of any type of offered business, only due to the fact that I feel that in general if a product works the method its intended to, I shouldn’t ever have a factor to call them to begin with. And while I want I might say that was the case during my experience with StandDesk, I merely can not finish this testimonial without stating the countless, apparently limitless issues I came across attempting to obtain my desk put together.

For beginners, the desk I was sent out really did not have any type of memory phone included originally, which indicated I had no chance of actually managing the up/down feature on the desk itself. I got in touch with StandDesk regarding this problem, who returned to me around a day later with an apology as well as a guarantee that a new one would certainly be shipped shortly.

Standdesk review handset

The resource of all our troubles …
Regarding 4 days later a handset got here in the mail. The phone at first turned on, yet it had not been long before I noticed that none of the programmable switches worked, nor did the down button, however, for some factor the “memory” switch took care of the down function just great. I got in touch with the business again, as well as they apologized for the mixup and said they would certainly have a new panel and also control box out to me within the week.

Over two weeks later on my new panel and control box showed up. When I mounted them both the desk finally began functioning the way it was intended to, yet not after almost a month of waiting and also backward and forward with a firm that couldn’t bear in mind to ship a core component of their item inside the same box from the beginning.

Points to Think about

In spite of its bankable features, this stand desk likewise has its own drawbacks. Because no singular stand desk might capture all of the functions that you might require, you may take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Absence of a Crossbar as requirement

Not having a stabilizing crossbar is definitely not a deal-breaker, particularly considering several of our other favorite desks such as the Fully Jarvis likewise don’t have one. In fact, this desk does have one if you want, yet it is a paid add-on (extra on this later as well).

The bar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it harder to position your legs comfortably below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they supply included security, frequently important when desks are fully prolonged.

We have not read any kind of issues of the security of this workdesk, so we don’t think its something to really be concerned regarding, although if you truly desired a workdesk with a bar after that we suggest you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Conversely, StandDesk does supply a different add-on crossbar that you can include in the desk yourself, just for an extra $49.95.

Security

The security of a standing workdesk is one of the most vital aspects of these desks. Without a steady desk you’ll discover it difficult to concentrate, which could lead to you becoming much less thinking about making use of the desk at standing elevation. To get the best return on your investment, you’ll intend to enjoy when utilizing the desk.

Because the StandDesk Simple is the first desk that I have actually checked with an optional cross assistance, I will certainly break down my stability examinations into 2 areas. Both examinations will certainly consist of the typical front to back rocking test and also a delegated best wobble. The first will certainly lack the cross support and the secondly will certainly be with it. Simply to note, StandDesk.co claims that the enhancement of the cross support can increase security by as much as 15%. I have no suggestion exactly how they thought of that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a different scenario. StandDesk Simple was the second workdesk that I examined that wobbled near the bottom with weight on the desktop. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the shaking activity was bad. Beyond this point it would affect your work.

With Cross Assistance

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

Delegated Right: Including the cross support to the StandDesk improved the wobble movement for lower heights. With the cross support the wobble movement didn’t begin up until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble activity ended up being bad.

Note: It’s really vital with adjustable standing workdesks to fully tighten all hardware. If there is hardware that is not totally tight, the activity experienced when reached standing height will be exaggerated. This is particularly real with a workdesk frame that consists of 32 screws, there are much a lot of factors at which the desk has a possibility to move.

Verdict

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve evaluated in our laboratories, we need to tighten our referral on the StandDesk Pro to shorter customers with narrower desktops, as the security simply isn’t there for a large mass elevated high off the ground. American-made workdesks will certainly be better fit to these applications, as well as for a rather evident factor. Basically all American-made bases are made in US manufacturing facilities that are owned by Swedish, Danish or German business that created this industry, and also their average residents are a whole lot taller than the ordinary Eastern consumer, so they began making longer-stroke lifting legs a very long time back. And also they have far more robot automation, laser-cutting tools, and also large experience making standing workdesk bases, obviously.

If you’re not too tall, do not have an inordinate amount of hefty tools on your desktop, and don’t require as well broad of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly provide you good bang for your dollar.

All that might transform with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he expects to release sometime in the future. Initially we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. More than a year later it has yet to materialize, as well as Yu states he’s had difficulty getting the product quality he requires out of numerous Chinese factories he’s tried working with. The new layout is apparently going to be much easier to assemble and have a heftier bar style, among other improvements. He states the brand-new base will certainly be provided in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” arrangement, relieving our issue about side-load worrying on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever before comes to market we’ll upgrade you right here. We’re not holding our breath any kind of longer as the most recent news on the firm is that Yu shut the small Los Angeles workplace as well as has actually transferred it to join with all its various other workers in southeast Asia.

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

The StandDesk was developed by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, and has been gobbled up by millennials in excellent quantities. While it brings a ten-year warranty (the lengthiest of any kind of Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not always a trusted indicator of the expected useful life of the training columns. But for the rate, the StandDesk is a great lower-cost option to the UpLift, Jarvis and also other Chinese-made desks. Despite its security problems this is a far much better item 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 group of Chinese-made desks that is swaying clients from both its cheaper and costlier peers.

StandDesk Building And Construction, Configuration, and Devices

Developing the desk is quite simple if you comply with the thorough instructions. All of the screws, screws, washing machines, and also spring washers been available in different bags that are marked with their location: table top, frame, and spares. There’s a consisted of hex tool for securing every one of the screws right into the frame, or, pop in a hex bit right into your power tool– simply take care not to over-tighten.

Every one of the parts have an excellent quality surface 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 assembly– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot setting up likewise consists of height-adjustable rotation equipments to stabilize the front-to-back motion of the desk, which was very useful for the carpeted office flooring. I’m likewise making use of a floor mat to secure the carpeting from chair wheel damages at resting elevation, and push 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, suggesting the up and down arrowheads will certainly readjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or constantly readjust the height by around 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the switch for two secs. The memory buttons are comparable in style: press to recall the elevation setting, or hold the button down for five secs to keep a brand-new elevation value. I’m utilizing switch 1 for my sitting placement and button 4 for my standing placement, which offers me 2 and also 3 for anything I might need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

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

The electric motors are quiet yet can be listened to in the following space over. It takes possibly 25 seconds for the desk to totally change from sitting to standing based on my presets.
I utilize an Ergotron side-by-side keep an eye on arm (particularly this LX design), triggering the desk to get a little rough when I move my weight versus the keyboard. In knowledge, I must have purchased the crossbar upgrade for my desk after identifying the weight of my monitors. If you plan to do a twin monitor arrangement, get the bar.

Because gravity compresses the discs in a human back, I require to increase the desk higher in the early morning and reduced it in the evening.

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

Performance

Regardless of any issues I may have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter design, pretty much every one of those worries gotten rid of as soon as I actually came down to utilizing this point.

I really did not think it was also feasible, the StandDesk in some way handles to be also a lot more secure than the Jarvis, both at sitting and also standing elevations. The majority of days I like to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pushed against my wall surface; not necessarily since it’s that unsteady, however just because I desire as much security as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also additionally, showing to be just as consistent by itself at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s crossbar enhancement, which they claim adds much more stability when purchased as a part of the package deal.When it involves weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for approximately 350 pounds of weight ability.

I’ve been utilizing the desk for concerning three weeks now for day-to-day work (and complying with standing workdesk ideal techniques), whether it’s typing out testimonials such as this one from our desktop or a laptop once in a while. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered beverages, as well as the finish on top of the desk still feels equally as smooth as well as glossy as the day I opened it despite days of perspiring wrists wresting on it as well as numerous wipe downs with a dustcloth.

Though I never ever deliberately attempt to dent any kind of desks as well hard, during some lighter examinations (tossing a collection of tricks onto it from a distance, as an example), it still held up without way too many visible indications of damages.

Finally, when I determined the noise result of the desk while it climbed from a sitting position to standing as well as back again, it was by far the quietest we have actually examined yet. I might barely get it to make greater than regarding 9.5 dB of sound, so if your biggest issue is the whirr of your motor, this is certainly the one for you.

Customer Service

Currently, generally I don’t consist of much about the client service assistance of any kind of given firm, just due to the fact that I really feel that generally if a product functions the way its meant to, I shouldn’t ever have a factor to call them in the first place. And while I want I might claim that held true throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can not finish this review without discussing the various, apparently limitless problems I came across attempting to obtain my desk put together.

For beginners, the desk I was sent out really did not have any memory mobile consisted of initially, which implied I had no other way of in fact controlling the up/down feature on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk about this issue, who returned to me around a day later with an apology and also a promise that a brand-new one would be shipped out quickly.

Standdesk testimonial handset

The source of all our troubles …
About four days later on a phone arrived in the mail. The mobile initially turned on, yet it wasn’t long before I saw that none of the programmable switches worked, nor did the down switch, however, for some factor the “memory” button dealt with the down feature simply fine. I got in touch with the firm again, and they apologized for the mixup as well as said they would have a new panel as well as control box bent on me within the week.

Over two weeks later on my brand-new panel as well as control box arrived. Once I installed them both the desk ultimately started working the method it was expected to, however not after practically a month of waiting as well as back and forth with a firm that couldn’t keep in mind to deliver a core element of their product inside the very same box from the start.

Things to Consider

In spite of its bankable features, this stand up desk additionally has its own disadvantages. Since no particular stand desk might catch all of the functions that you may need, you might consider these in your decision-making.

Absence of a Bar as requirement

Not having a maintaining crossbar is definitely not a deal-breaker, specifically taking into consideration a few of our various other preferred workdesks such as the Fully Jarvis additionally don’t have one. This desk does have one if you desire, yet it is a paid add-on (much more on this later as well).

The crossbar is seen by some as an obstacle, making it more challenging to put your legs comfortably below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they provide added security, commonly critical when workdesks are completely expanded.

We have not read any type of problems of the stability of this desk, so we don’t assume its something to truly be worried concerning, although if you really desired a workdesk with a crossbar then we advise you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

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

Security

The stability of a standing desk is just one of the most vital elements of these desks. Without a steady desk you’ll discover it difficult to focus, which can result in you ending up being much less thinking about utilizing the desk at standing height. To get the best return on your financial investment, you’ll intend to enjoy 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 stability examinations into 2 areas. Both tests will certainly include the typical front to back rocking test as well as a left to right wobble. The initial will certainly lack the cross support and also the secondly will certainly be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co claims that the enhancement of the cross assistance can boost security by as much as 15%. I have no suggestion just how they generated that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble test was a various situation. StandDesk Simple was the second workdesk that I examined that tottered 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 movement misbehaved. Yet factor it would affect your work.

With Cross Assistance

Front to Back: Adding the cross assistance does not influence the rocking activity. The StandDesk Simple began to experienced a shaking motion at 36″. By 41″ the rocking movement misbehaved.

Left to Right: Adding the cross support to the StandDesk boosted the wobble movement for reduced heights. With the cross assistance the wobble activity didn’t begin till you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement came to be bad.

Keep in mind: It’s extremely important with flexible standing desks to fully tighten up all equipment. If there is equipment that is not completely limited, the movement experienced when encompassed standing elevation will be overemphasized. This is specifically true with a desk frame that includes 32 bolts, there are much way too many factors at which the desk has a chance to move.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually evaluated in our labs, we have to tighten our suggestion on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter individuals with narrower desktops, as the security just isn’t there for a large mass raised high off the ground. American-made workdesks will be much better fit to these applications, and also for a fairly noticeable reason. Practically all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German firms that created this market, and their average residents are a great deal taller than the typical Oriental consumer, so they started making longer-stroke lifting legs a very long time ago. And they have much more robot automation, laser-cutting tools, as well as large experience making standing desk bases, needless to say.

If you’re not too high, don’t have an excessive amount of hefty devices on your desktop computer, and also do not need also vast of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will offer you good bang for your buck.

All that may change with Yu’s assured 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 it has yet to appear, as well as Yu states he’s had difficulty getting the product high quality he needs out of a number of Chinese factories he’s tried dealing with. The brand-new style is apparently going to be much easier to set up as well as have a heftier crossbar style, among other improvements. He states the brand-new base will certainly be provided in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” setup, relieving our problem about side-load worrying on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever involves market we’ll upgrade you here. However we’re not holding our breath any type of longer as one of the most current news on the firm is that Yu shut the tiny Los Angeles workplace as well as has actually relocated it to join with all its various other staff members in southeast Asia.

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