The StandDesk was created by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, and has actually been gobbled up by millennials in outstanding quantities. While it brings a ten-year service warranty (the lengthiest of any Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not always a trusted indication of the anticipated valuable life of the lifting 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. Regardless of its security issues this is a much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before intend to be, and a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad category of Chinese-made workdesks that is gaining customers from both its cheaper and pricier peers.

StandDesk Construction, Setup, and also Gizmos

Building the desk is pretty simple if you comply with the detailed instructions. All of the screws, screws, washing machines, as well as springtime washing machines can be found in different bags that are marked with their location: tabletop, frame, and also spares. There’s a consisted of hex device for fastening all of the bolts into the frame, or, appear a hex little bit right into your power device– just beware not to over-tighten.

All of the parts have a high quality surface to them with rounded edges to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the bolts that are attached to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly also consists of height-adjustable turning gears to maintain the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was really handy for the carpeted home office floor. I’m also making use of a flooring mat to protect the rug from chair wheel damages at sitting height, as well as press the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller was worth the financial investment. The buttons are all variable stress programmed, suggesting the backwards and forwards arrows will certainly change the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or constantly adjust the elevation by about 0.7 inches per second if you hold the switch for 2 seconds. The memory buttons are similar in design: press to remember the elevation setup, or hold the button down for five secs to save a brand-new height worth. I’m using switch 1 for my resting setting as well as button 4 for my standing position, which provides me 2 and also 3 for anything I may require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

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

The motors are quiet but can be heard in the next area over. It takes probably 25 seconds for the desk to fully shift from sitting to standing based upon my presets.
I use an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (especially this LX design), causing the desk to obtain a little rocky when I change my weight versus the keyboard. In knowledge, I should have purchased the crossbar upgrade for my desk after determining the weight of my displays. If you prepare to do a double screen arrangement, get the crossbar.

Because gravity presses the discs in a human back, I require to raise the desk greater in the morning and also reduced it at night.

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 below.

Performance

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

I really did not assume it was even possible, the StandDesk somehow manages to be even a lot more stable than the Jarvis, both at resting and standing elevations. Most days I such as to run my Jarvis at max height while pressed against my wall surface; not necessarily because it’s that wobbly, yet just because I desire as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also additionally, proving to be just as constant on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the business’s bar addition, which they claim includes even more stability when acquired as a part of the plan deal.When it comes to weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for approximately 350 pounds of weight capability.

I have actually been utilizing the desk for about three weeks now for everyday job (as well as complying with standing workdesk best techniques), whether it’s typing out evaluations such as this one from our desktop computer or a laptop computer once in a while. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered drinks, and also the finish in addition to the desk still really feels just as smooth and also slick as the day I opened it in spite of days of sweaty wrists wresting on it as well as numerous clean downs with a dustcloth.

I never ever purposefully attempt to dent any kind of desks too hard, throughout some lighter tests (throwing a set of tricks onto it from a range, for example), it still held up without also numerous visible indications of damages.

Last but not least, when I determined the sound outcome of the desk while it climbed from a resting position to standing and also back once more, it was without a doubt the quietest we have actually checked yet. I might barely get it to make greater than about 9.5 dB of sound, so if your largest concern is the whirr of your motor, this is definitely the one for you.

Customer Service

Currently, usually I do not include much concerning the customer care assistance of any kind of given company, only because I feel that generally if a product works the means its expected to, I shouldn’t ever before have a factor to call them in the first place. As well as while I wish I can claim that was the case during my experience with StandDesk, I merely can not finish this review without stating the various, apparently limitless problems I encountered attempting to get my desk created.

For beginners, the desk I was sent really did not have any type of memory mobile phone consisted of initially, which suggested I had no other way of actually regulating the up/down feature on the desk itself. I spoke to StandDesk about this concern, that got back to me around a day later on with an apology and also a pledge that a new one would certainly be shipped out soon.

Standdesk testimonial handset

The resource of all our issues …
About four days later a handset got here in the mail. The mobile at first switched on, but it wasn’t long prior to I noticed that none of the programmable buttons worked, neither did the down button, however, for some reason the “memory” switch handled the down feature just fine. I spoke to the company again, and they excused the mixup and said they would certainly have a brand-new panel and control box bent on me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later my brand-new panel as well as control box got here. Once I mounted them both the desk lastly started working the method it was expected to, but not after virtually a month of waiting and backward and forward with a company that couldn’t keep in mind to ship a core element of their product inside the same box from the beginning.

Things to Take into consideration

Despite its bankable features, this stand desk additionally has its own disadvantages. Given that no singular stand workdesk might capture every one of the attributes that you may need, you might think about these in your decision-making.

Absence of a Bar as standard

Not having a maintaining crossbar is definitely not a deal-breaker, specifically taking into consideration several of our other favorite desks such as the Fully Jarvis also do not have one. As a matter of fact, this workdesk does have one if you desire, but it is a paid add-on (more on this later on as well).

The bar is seen by some as an obstacle, making it tougher to put your legs conveniently listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, find that they supply added security, frequently important when workdesks are fully prolonged.

We have not check out any kind of grievances of the stability of this workdesk, so we don’t believe its something to actually be concerned about, although if you truly wanted a workdesk with a crossbar after that we suggest you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Alternatively, StandDesk does supply a separate add-on crossbar that you can add to the desk on your own, just for an extra $49.95.

Stability

The stability of a standing desk is just one of one of the most essential aspects of these desks. Without a secure desk you’ll discover it tough to concentrate, which might cause you coming to be less interested in using the desk at standing height. To obtain the very best return on your financial investment, you’ll wish to enjoy when using the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the very first desk that I have checked with an optional cross support, I will break down my stability examinations right into 2 areas. Both tests will consist of the typical front to back shaking test and an entrusted to appropriate wobble. The initial will certainly lack the cross assistance as well as the secondly will certainly be with it. Just to note, StandDesk.co states that the enhancement of the cross support can boost security by as much as 15%. I have no suggestion how they created 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 near the bottom with weight on the desktop. The very first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the shaking motion was bad. Yet factor it would certainly influence your job.

With Cross Assistance

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

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

Note: It’s really vital with adjustable standing desks to completely tighten up all equipment. If there is hardware that is not completely limited, the motion experienced when reached standing elevation will certainly be exaggerated. This is specifically real with a workdesk framework that consists of 32 screws, there are far a lot of points at which the desk has a possibility to move.

Verdict

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve examined in our labs, we have to narrow our referral on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter individuals with narrower desktop computers, as the security simply isn’t there for a huge mass boosted high off the ground. American-made workdesks will be much better matched to these applications, and for a fairly noticeable reason. Essentially all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German companies that created this sector, and also their ordinary residents are a lot taller than the ordinary Eastern customer, so they started making longer-stroke training legs a long time earlier. And also they have much more robot automation, laser-cutting tools, and also sheer experience making standing workdesk bases, obviously.

But if you’re not also tall, don’t have an extreme amount of heavy equipment on your desktop computer, as well as do not require as well wide of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly provide you great value.

All that may alter with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he anticipates to launch at some time in the future. Initially we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. More than a year later on it has yet to appear, as well as Yu states he’s had problem getting the item top quality he needs out of a number of Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s attempted dealing with. The brand-new layout is supposedly going to be a lot easier to assemble as well as have a heftier bar design, to name a few improvements. He claims the brand-new base will certainly be used in both a “T-Leg” and also “C-Leg” configuration, reducing our problem concerning side-load stressing on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever concerns market we’ll upgrade you right here. We’re not holding our breath any type of longer as the most current information on the business is that Yu shut the tiny Los Angeles office and also has actually relocated it to join with all its other workers in southeast Asia.

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

The StandDesk was created by millennials, is marketed straight at millennials, as well as has actually been demolished by millennials in impressive quantities. While it carries a ten-year service warranty (the lengthiest of any Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not necessarily a trusted indicator of the expected beneficial life of the training columns. For the price, the StandDesk is a great lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis and also other Chinese-made workdesks. Regardless of its security problems this is a far better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before hope to be, and also a good value on the whole. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad category of Chinese-made desks that is winning over clients from both its cheaper as well as costlier peers.

StandDesk Building And Construction, Arrangement, and also Devices

Developing the desk is pretty easy if you adhere to the thorough directions. Every one of the screws, bolts, washers, as well as spring washers come in separate bags that are marked with their location: table top, frame, and also spares. There’s an included hex tool for fastening every one of the bolts right into the frame, or, pop in a hex bit right into your power device– just be careful not to over-tighten.

Every one of the parts have a premium quality finish to them with rounded corners to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the bolts that are fastened to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot setting up also consists of height-adjustable turning equipments to maintain the front-to-back motion of the desk, which was really handy for the carpeted home office floor. I’m also utilizing a flooring mat to shield the carpet from chair wheel damages at resting elevation, and also press the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller deserved the financial investment. The switches are all variable pressure set, meaning the up and down arrows 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 button for 2 seconds. The memory buttons are similar in layout: push to remember the elevation setting, or hold the button down for 5 seconds to store a brand-new elevation value. I’m using button 1 for my sitting setting and button 4 for my standing position, which offers me 2 and 3 for anything I may require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

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

The electric motors are quiet yet can be listened to in the following area over. It takes perhaps 25 secs for the desk to fully shift from resting to standing based on my presets.
I use an Ergotron side-by-side monitor arm (especially this LX model), causing the desk to obtain a little rough when I change my weight against the key-board. In hindsight, I ought to have acquired the crossbar upgrade for my workdesk after identifying the weight of my screens. If you plan to do a twin display setup, get the bar.

Due to the fact that gravity compresses the discs in a human spine, I need to elevate the desk higher in the early morning as well as lower it in the evening.

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

Performance

In spite of any type of troubles I might have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter layout, pretty much all of those issues washed away when I in fact got down to utilizing this thing.

Although I didn’t believe it was even feasible, the StandDesk in some way handles to be much more secure 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 unsteady, yet even if I desire as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also additionally, confirming to be just as stable on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s bar enhancement, which they declare adds much more stability when bought as a part of the plan deal.When it comes to weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet even more statistics with the Jarvis, being ranked for approximately 350 pounds of weight capability.

I’ve been making use of the desk for concerning three weeks now for everyday work (as well as complying with standing desk ideal methods), whether it’s typing out testimonials like this one from our desktop computer or a laptop every so often. The desk stands up well against non-coastered beverages, and also the surface on top of the desk still feels just as smooth and slick as the day I opened it despite days of sweaty wrists wresting on it and multiple clean downs with a rag.

Though I never purposefully attempt to dent any type of workdesks as well hard, throughout some lighter examinations (tossing a set of tricks onto it from a range, for example), it still stood up without way too many noticeable signs of damage.

When I gauged the noise outcome of the workdesk while it climbed from a resting placement to standing and also back once more, it was by much the quietest we’ve tested. I can hardly get it to make greater than about 9.5 dB of noise, so if your biggest problem is the whirr of your motor, this is absolutely the one for you.

Customer Service

Currently, usually I do not consist of much about the client service support of any offered company, only because I feel that as a whole if an item works the means its supposed to, I shouldn’t ever have a factor to call them in the first place. And also while I want I might say that was the case during my experience with StandDesk, I merely can’t finish this evaluation without mentioning the various, apparently unlimited issues I ran into trying to obtain my desk assembled.

For beginners, the desk I was sent out didn’t have any type of memory phone consisted of initially, which implied I had no other way of really controlling the up/down function on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk about this issue, that got back to me around a day later with an apology and also a promise that a new one would certainly be shipped out quickly.

Standdesk review handset

The resource of all our troubles …
About four days later a phone got here in the mail. The phone initially turned on, but it wasn’t long prior to I observed that none of the programmable switches worked, nor did the down button, but for some reason the “memory” button managed the down feature simply fine. I got in touch with the company once more, and they apologized for the mixup as well as claimed 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 also control box showed up. When I installed them both the desk ultimately started functioning the method it was expected to, however not after nearly a month of waiting as well as to and fro with a business that could not keep in mind to deliver a core part of their item inside the exact same box from the get-go.

Points to Consider

Despite its bankable features, this stand up desk likewise has its own downsides. Given that no single stand workdesk might catch all of the functions that you might require, you may take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Bar as requirement

Not having a supporting crossbar is certainly not a deal-breaker, specifically thinking about some of our various other favorite workdesks such as the Fully Jarvis likewise don’t have one. This desk does have one if you want, yet it is a paid add-on (extra on this later on as well).

The crossbar is seen by some as an obstacle, making it tougher to position your legs comfortably listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they provide included stability, commonly vital when desks are fully extended.

We have not read any kind of problems of the security of this workdesk, so we don’t believe its something to truly be concerned regarding, although if you truly wanted a workdesk with a crossbar then we recommend you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

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

Security

The security of a standing workdesk is just one of one of the most important facets of these desks. Without a stable desk you’ll locate it hard to focus, which might result in you coming to be less interested in making use of 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 first desk that I have examined with an optional cross support, I will break down my stability tests right into 2 areas. Both tests will certainly consist of the regular front to back shaking test and a left to ideal wobble. The initial will be without the cross assistance and also the secondly will be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co claims that the enhancement of the cross support can raise stability by up to 15%. I have no suggestion exactly how they thought of that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble test was a various circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the second workdesk that I tested that wobbled near the bottom with weight on the desktop. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the rocking movement misbehaved. Beyond this factor it would certainly affect your work.

With Cross Assistance

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

Entrusted to Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk enhanced the wobble motion for lower elevations. With the cross support the wobble motion didn’t start till you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement came to be bad.

Note: It’s very crucial with flexible standing desks to fully tighten up all equipment. If there is equipment that is not completely limited, the motion experienced when reached standing height will be overemphasized. This is specifically true with a workdesk structure that consists of 32 screws, there are far too many points at which the desk has a possibility to move.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve checked in our laboratories, we need to tighten our referral on the StandDesk Pro to shorter individuals with narrower desktops, as the stability just isn’t there for a large mass boosted high off the ground. American-made workdesks will certainly be much better suited to these applications, and for a rather noticeable factor. Basically all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are had by Swedish, Danish or German business that invented this market, and their typical citizens are a great deal taller than the typical Asian customer, so they started making longer-stroke lifting legs a long period of time ago. And also they have even more robotic automation, laser-cutting devices, as well as large experience making standing workdesk bases, it goes without saying.

If you’re not too high, don’t have an excessive quantity of hefty equipment on your desktop, and also do not require also large of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly give you good bang for your buck.

All that might change with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he anticipates to launch sometime in the future. Initially we were told we would certainly see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later it has yet to appear, and also Yu states he’s had trouble getting the item quality he requires out of numerous Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s attempted collaborating with. The brand-new layout is apparently going to be a lot easier to construct as well as have a heftier crossbar style, to name a few improvements. He says the brand-new base will certainly be provided in both a “T-Leg” and also “C-Leg” arrangement, alleviating our issue concerning side-load emphasizing on the training columns.

If this new base ever comes to market we’ll update you right here. But we’re not holding our breath any longer as the most recent news on the company is that Yu shut the tiny Los Angeles office and also has actually relocated it to accompany all its other staff members in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a brand-new $399 standing desk with impressive efficiency has been introduce via the brand-new joint endeavor in between US-based iMovR and China-based Eureka, the i1 electrical standing desk. While restricted in dimension and also color alternatives, it has actually taken the mantle far from StandDesk’s long-ago standing as the best standing workdesk under $400.