The StandDesk was created by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, and also has been gobbled up by millennials in remarkable quantities. While it brings a ten-year warranty (the longest of any Chinese-made base), in this situation it’s not always a reliable sign of the anticipated beneficial life of the lifting columns. For the price, the StandDesk is a wonderful lower-cost option to the UpLift, Jarvis and other Chinese-made workdesks. Regardless of its stability issues this is a much better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant might ever before intend to be, as well as a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide group of Chinese-made desks that is winning over clients from both its more affordable and costlier peers.

StandDesk Construction, Configuration, and Devices

Constructing the desk is pretty easy if you comply with the in-depth guidelines. All of the screws, screws, washers, and also springtime washers come in separate bags that are marked with their location: table top, structure, and spares. There’s a consisted of hex device for attaching every one of the bolts right into the frame, or, pop in a hex bit right into your power tool– just beware not to over-tighten.

Every one of the components have a premium quality finish to them with rounded corners 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 setting up also includes height-adjustable turning gears to stabilize the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was very helpful for the carpeted home office flooring. I’m also making use of a floor mat to safeguard the carpeting from chair wheel damages at resting height, as well as push the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller deserved the financial investment. The buttons are all variable stress configured, implying the up and down arrowheads will adjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continuously readjust the height by around 0.7 inches per second if you hold the switch for two seconds. The memory buttons are comparable in style: push to remember the height setup, or hold the button down for five secs to keep a brand-new height value. I’m making use of switch 1 for my resting position and switch 4 for my standing position, which provides me 2 and also 3 for anything I might require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I have actually been utilizing the brand-new desk for a couple of weeks and have documented my first impressions:

The motors are quiet however can be heard in the next area over. It takes possibly 25 seconds for the desk to completely transition from sitting to standing based on my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side keep an eye on arm (specifically this LX design), triggering the desk to obtain a little rocky when I change my weight versus the key-board. In knowledge, I need to have bought the bar upgrade for my desk after figuring out the weight of my screens. If you plan to do a dual display arrangement, obtain the crossbar.

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

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

Performance

Despite any type of issues I might have had with the mobile phone or the cookie-cutter layout, pretty much all of those concerns removed once I in fact came down to using this thing.

I really did not believe it was also feasible, the StandDesk in some way handles to be even much more secure than the Jarvis, both at sitting and standing elevations. A lot of days I such as to run my Jarvis at max height while pushed against my wall surface; not necessarily because it’s that wobbly, however even if I desire as much security as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even further, proving to be equally as steady on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the business’s bar enhancement, which they claim includes a lot more stability when purchased as a part of the plan deal.When it concerns weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for as much as 350 lbs of weight capability.

I’ve been making use of the desk for about 3 weeks currently for daily work (and also following standing workdesk finest practices), whether it’s inputting out reviews like this one from our desktop computer or a laptop every now and then. The desk stands up well against non-coastered beverages, and the coating on top of the desk still really feels just as smooth and also glossy as the day I opened it despite days of sweaty wrists wresting on it and numerous wipe downs with a rag.

Though I never purposefully try to damage any type of desks as well hard, during some lighter examinations (throwing a collection of keys onto it from a range, for instance), it still stood up without way too many visible indications of damage.

When I gauged the sound result of the desk while it climbed from a resting position to standing and back again, it was by much the quietest we have actually evaluated. I might barely get it to make more than regarding 9.5 dB of noise, so if your largest concern is the whirr of your electric motor, this is certainly the one for you.

Customer support

Currently, generally I don’t consist of much regarding the customer support assistance of any type of provided business, just due to the fact that I feel that as a whole if a product functions the method its intended to, I shouldn’t ever have a reason to call them to begin with. And also while I wish I can state that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I simply can not complete this review without pointing out the various, relatively unlimited troubles I ran into trying to obtain my workdesk created.

For beginners, the desk I was sent didn’t have any memory mobile consisted of initially, which indicated I had no chance of really regulating the up/down feature on the desk itself. I spoke to StandDesk about this problem, that got back to me around a day later on with an apology as well as a guarantee that a brand-new one would be shipped out shortly.

Standdesk evaluation handset

The source of all our troubles …
Concerning 4 days later a mobile arrived in the mail. The phone initially turned on, but it wasn’t long prior to I discovered that none of the programmable buttons worked, neither did the down button, but for some reason the “memory” switch handled the down feature just fine. I got in touch with the company once again, as well as they apologized for the mixup and also said they would certainly have a new panel and also control box bent on me within the week.

Over two weeks later my brand-new panel and also control box got here. Once I installed them both the desk ultimately started functioning the way it was meant 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 part of their item inside the very same box from the beginning.

Things to Take into consideration

Despite its bankable features, this stand workdesk likewise has its very own drawbacks. Since no singular stand workdesk could capture every one of the attributes that you may need, you may take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Crossbar as criterion

Not having a supporting crossbar is certainly not a deal-breaker, especially considering some of our various other preferred desks such as the Totally Jarvis additionally do not have one. In fact, this desk does have one if you desire, but it is a paid add-on (a lot more on this later also).

The bar is seen by some as a barrier, making it harder to put your legs comfortably listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they offer added stability, commonly critical when workdesks are completely prolonged.

We have not check out any type of complaints of the security of this desk, so we do not believe its something to really be worried concerning, although if you truly wanted a workdesk with a crossbar after that we recommend you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Conversely, StandDesk does provide a different add-on crossbar that you can add to the desk on your own, just for an additional $49.95.

Stability

The stability of a standing desk is one of the most crucial facets of these desks. Without a stable desk you’ll discover it tough to focus, which might result in you coming to be much less thinking about using the desk at standing height. To get the best return on your investment, you’ll intend to be happy when utilizing the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the very first desk that I have actually evaluated with an optional cross assistance, I will break down my stability tests right into two sections. Both examinations will certainly include the normal front to back shaking test and also an entrusted to appropriate wobble. The first will certainly lack the cross assistance and also the secondly will be with it. Simply to note, StandDesk.co claims that the enhancement of the cross support can increase stability by up to 15%. I have no concept exactly how they developed that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble test was a various circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd workdesk that I checked that tottered at the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the rocking activity misbehaved. Yet point it would influence your work.

With Cross Assistance

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

Left to Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk enhanced the wobble motion for lower elevations. With the cross assistance the wobble activity didn’t begin till you got to 35″. By 39″ the wobble activity ended up being bad.

Note: It’s extremely vital with adjustable standing desks to totally tighten all hardware. If there is equipment that is not totally tight, the motion experienced when extended to standing elevation will certainly be overemphasized. This is especially true with a workdesk frame that consists of 32 screws, there are far too many factors at which the desk has a chance to move.

Conclusion

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually checked in our labs, we need to narrow our referral on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter customers with narrower desktops, as the security simply isn’t there for a huge mass boosted high off the ground. American-made workdesks will certainly be much better suited to these applications, and also for a fairly apparent factor. Practically all American-made bases are made in United States factories that are owned by Swedish, Danish or German firms that invented this industry, and also their typical residents are a great deal taller than the average Eastern customer, so they started making longer-stroke lifting legs a long time back. And they have much more robot automation, laser-cutting equipment, and large experience making standing workdesk bases, needless to say.

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

All that may change with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout 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 it has yet to appear, and also Yu states he’s had problem getting the product high quality he needs out of a number of Chinese factories he’s attempted working with. The brand-new design is allegedly going to be a lot easier to construct and also have a heftier bar design, among other refinements. He claims the new base will be offered in both a “T-Leg” and also “C-Leg” arrangement, relieving our issue regarding side-load stressing on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever before involves market we’ll update you below. Yet we’re not holding our breath any type of longer as one of the most current news on the business is that Yu shut the little Los Angeles workplace and also has actually relocated it to accompany all its other employees in southeast Asia.

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

The StandDesk was developed by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, as well as has actually been gobbled up by millennials in outstanding volumes. While it lugs a ten-year guarantee (the lengthiest of any type of Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not necessarily a trusted sign of the anticipated helpful life of the lifting columns. But also for the rate, the StandDesk is an excellent lower-cost option to the UpLift, Jarvis as well as various other Chinese-made workdesks. Regardless of its stability problems this is a far much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before wish to be, and also a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad group of Chinese-made workdesks that is gaining customers from both its cheaper and pricier peers.

StandDesk Construction, Configuration, as well as Devices

Constructing the desk is rather straight forward if you comply with the comprehensive instructions. Every one of the screws, bolts, washing machines, and springtime washers been available in separate bags that are noted with their location: table top, structure, and also spares. There’s a consisted of hex device for attaching all of the bolts right into the frame, or, appear a hex bit right into your power tool– simply beware not to over-tighten.

All of the parts have an excellent quality finish to them with rounded corners to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the screws that are attached to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly likewise consists of height-adjustable turning equipments to maintain the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was very valuable for the carpeted home office flooring. I’m also making use of a floor mat to shield the rug from chair wheel damage at sitting elevation, and press the chair when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller was worth the financial investment. The buttons are all variable stress set, indicating the up and down arrowheads will certainly adjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or continuously adjust the elevation by around 0.7 inches per second if you hold the switch for two 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 brand-new height worth. I’m using button 1 for my resting placement as well as switch 4 for my standing position, which provides me 2 and 3 for anything I may require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I’ve been using the new desk for a few weeks and also have actually jotted down my first perceptions:

The motors are quiet but can be heard in the next area over. It takes probably 25 secs for the desk to totally change from resting to standing based upon my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side keep an eye on arm (particularly this LX design), causing the desk to get a little rocky when I shift my weight against the keyboard. In knowledge, I ought to have bought the bar upgrade for my workdesk after figuring out the weight of my displays. If you plan to do a double screen arrangement, get the crossbar.

Due to the fact that gravity presses the discs in a human back, I require to increase the desk greater in the early morning and reduced it in the evening.

An anti-fatigue mat is definitely essential for long duration standing. I acquired an Octagonal mat from SmartCells, utilizing rubber “cells” that are envisioned listed below.

Performance

In spite of any type of troubles I may have had with the handset or the cookie-cutter design, pretty much all of those concerns removed as soon as I really came down to using this point.

Although I didn’t believe it was also possible, the StandDesk somehow takes care of to be even more stable than the Jarvis, both at resting and standing elevations. The majority of days I such as to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pushed versus my wall; not always due to the fact that it’s that wobbly, but even if I want as much security as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also better, proving to be just as consistent on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the business’s crossbar addition, which they claim adds even more security when bought as a part of the bundle deal.When it concerns weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet much more stats with the Jarvis, being rated for approximately 350 lbs of weight capability.

I have actually been using the desk for regarding three weeks now for day-to-day job (as well as following standing workdesk best methods), whether it’s typing out testimonials similar to this one from our desktop or a laptop every now and then. The desk holds up well against non-coastered drinks, and also the surface on top of the desk still really feels just as smooth as well as glossy as the day I opened it despite days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and multiple wipe downs with a rag.

I never intentionally try to dent any desks as well hard, throughout some lighter examinations (tossing a collection of secrets onto it from a range, for example), it still held up without also numerous noticeable indications of damages.

Lastly, when I measured the noise result of the desk while it increased from a sitting position to standing as well as back once again, it was by far the quietest we have actually examined yet. I can hardly get it to make more than regarding 9.5 dB of noise, so if your most significant worry is the whirr of your electric motor, this is most definitely the one for you.

Client service

Now, usually I don’t consist of much regarding the customer support support of any given company, only since I feel that generally if an item works the way its expected to, I shouldn’t ever have a reason to call them to begin with. And while I wish I could state that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can not complete this evaluation without pointing out the numerous, relatively countless problems I came across attempting to get my workdesk created.

For starters, the desk I was sent out really did not have any kind of memory handset included originally, which indicated I had no way of in fact regulating the up/down function on the desk itself. I got in touch with StandDesk regarding this problem, that returned to me around a day later on with an apology as well as a promise that a new one would be shipped out soon.

Standdesk review handset

The resource of all our troubles …
Concerning four days later on a handset got here in the mail. The mobile originally turned on, yet it had not been long before I discovered that none of the programmable buttons functioned, neither did the down button, but also for some reason the “memory” switch handled the down function just fine. I contacted the firm again, and they excused the mixup and also stated they would certainly have a new panel and control box bent on me within the week.

Over two weeks later my brand-new panel and also control box arrived. Once I mounted them both the desk ultimately started working the means it was meant to, however not after practically a month of waiting and back and forth with a company that couldn’t keep in mind to deliver a core component of their product inside the exact same box from the beginning.

Things to Think about

Regardless of its bankable features, this stand up desk additionally has its own drawbacks. Because no single stand desk can record every one of the functions that you might require, you may take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Crossbar as criterion

Not having a supporting crossbar is definitely not a deal-breaker, particularly thinking about some of our other preferred desks such as the Totally Jarvis likewise do not have one. Actually, this desk does have one if you desire, however it is a paid add-on (extra on this later too).

The crossbar is seen by some as an obstacle, making it more difficult to place your legs conveniently listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they give included stability, typically important when workdesks are totally expanded.

We have not read any type of grievances of the security of this desk, so we don’t assume its something to really be worried regarding, although if you actually wanted a workdesk with a bar after that we advise you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Additionally, StandDesk does supply a different add-on crossbar 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 the most vital facets of these workdesks. Without a stable workdesk you’ll locate it tough to concentrate, which might cause you ending up being much less curious about utilizing the desk at standing elevation. To get the best return on your investment, you’ll intend to enjoy when making use of the desk.

Because the StandDesk Simple is the very first desk that I have checked with an optional cross support, I will certainly break down my security tests right into two sections. Both examinations will consist of the regular front to back rocking examination and an entrusted to appropriate wobble. The very first will lack the cross support as well as the secondly will be with it. Simply to keep in mind, StandDesk.co states that the addition of the cross support can enhance security by as much as 15%. I have no concept how they came up with that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble test was a various situation. StandDesk Simple was the second workdesk that I tested that tottered near the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the rocking movement misbehaved. Beyond this point it would influence your job.

With Cross Support

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

Entrusted to Right: Adding the cross assistance to the StandDesk enhanced the wobble motion for lower elevations. With the cross support the wobble movement didn’t begin up until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement became negative.

Keep in mind: It’s extremely important with adjustable standing desks to completely tighten all equipment. If there is equipment that is not completely tight, the movement experienced when reached standing elevation will be exaggerated. This is specifically real with a desk framework that consists of 32 screws, there are much a lot of points at which the desk has a chance to relocate.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve evaluated in our labs, we have to tighten our suggestion on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter individuals with narrower desktops, as the stability simply isn’t there for a huge mass raised high off the ground. American-made desks will certainly be much better fit to these applications, as well as for a relatively evident reason. Basically all American-made bases are made in United States factories that are owned by Swedish, Danish or German firms that created this industry, and their ordinary residents are a whole lot taller than the typical Eastern customer, so they began making longer-stroke training legs a long time back. And also they have far more robotic automation, laser-cutting equipment, as well as large experience making standing desk bases, it goes without saying.

If you’re not also tall, don’t have an excessive quantity of hefty equipment on your desktop computer, and do not require as well large of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly provide you excellent bang for your dollar.

All that might change with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he expects to release at some time 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, as well as Yu states he’s had trouble obtaining the product quality he requires out of several Chinese factories he’s tried collaborating with. The brand-new style is supposedly mosting likely to be much easier to put together and also have a heftier bar style, to name a few improvements. He claims the brand-new base will certainly be supplied in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” configuration, alleviating our issue concerning side-load worrying on the lifting columns.

If this new base ever concerns market we’ll update you below. We’re not holding our breath any kind of longer as the most current information on the company is that Yu closed the small Los Angeles workplace and also has actually transferred it to join with all its other employees in southeast Asia.

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