The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, as well as has been gobbled up by millennials in impressive quantities. While it carries a ten-year service warranty (the longest of any type of Chinese-made base), in this situation it’s not necessarily a trusted sign of the anticipated helpful life of the lifting columns. But for the price, the StandDesk is a great lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis and also other Chinese-made desks. Despite its security problems this is a much much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever intend to be, and also a good value generally. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad group of Chinese-made workdesks that is gaining clients from both its cheaper and costlier peers.
StandDesk Construction, Setup, as well as Devices
Building the desk is pretty straight forward if you comply with the detailed instructions. All of the screws, bolts, washers, as well as springtime washing machines come in separate bags that are noted with their location: table top, frame, and also spares. There’s an included hex tool for attaching every one of the bolts right into the structure, or, pop in a hex little bit into your power device– simply be careful not to over-tighten.
All of the parts have an excellent quality finish to them with rounded corners to avoid cut hands. Below is a shot of all the bolts that are secured to the leg assembly– it’s not going anywhere!
Standdesk-Leg
The foot assembly also consists of height-adjustable rotation gears to stabilize the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was extremely useful for the carpeted office flooring. I’m also using a floor mat to safeguard the rug from chair wheel damages at sitting elevation, as well as push the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing height.
Standdesk-Foot
The deluxe controller was worth the financial investment. The switches are all variable stress programmed, meaning the up and down arrows will adjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or continually change the elevation by around 0.7 inches per second if you hold the button for 2 secs. The memory buttons are similar in layout: push to recall the height setting, or hold the button down for 5 secs to save a brand-new elevation value. I’m using button 1 for my sitting setting and also button 4 for my standing position, which provides me 2 and also 3 for anything I might require in the future.
Standdesk-Memory-unit
Using my Standdesk
I’ve been utilizing the brand-new workdesk for a couple of weeks as well as have actually jotted down my preliminary impacts:
The electric motors are quiet however can be listened to in the following space over. It takes perhaps 25 secs for the desk to fully shift from sitting to standing based upon my presets.
I utilize an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (specifically this LX design), creating the desk to obtain a little rocky when I shift my weight against the keyboard. In hindsight, I should have acquired the bar upgrade for my desk after figuring out the weight of my displays. If you plan to do a double screen setup, get the bar.
Since gravity presses the discs in a human back, I require to increase the desk greater in the morning and lower it in the evening.
An anti-fatigue floor covering is absolutely important for long period of time standing. I bought an Octagonal mat from SmartCells, utilizing rubber “cells” that are imagined listed below.
Performance
In spite of any kind of issues I may have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter layout, practically all of those worries removed as soon as I actually got down to utilizing this point.
Although I really did not think it was even possible, the StandDesk in some way handles to be a lot more stable than the Jarvis, both at resting and standing heights. A lot of days I like to run my Jarvis at max height while pressed versus my wall; not always since it’s that unsteady, however just because I want as much stability as I can get.
The StandDesk one ups the gambit also additionally, proving to be just as consistent by itself at standing height as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s bar enhancement, which they claim adds much more security when bought as a part of the package deal.When it concerns weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more statistics with the Jarvis, being rated for up to 350 lbs of weight capability.
I’ve been utilizing the desk for concerning 3 weeks currently for day-to-day job (and complying with standing workdesk best methods), whether it’s keying out evaluations similar to this one from our desktop or a laptop once in a while. The desk holds up well against non-coastered drinks, as well as the surface on top of the desk still really feels just as smooth as well as glossy as the day I opened it in spite of days of sweaty wrists wresting on it and also several wipe downs with a rag.
I never deliberately try to damage any type of workdesks also hard, during some lighter examinations (throwing a set of secrets onto it from a range, for instance), it still held up without too several visible indications of damage.
Last but not least, when I gauged the noise output of the desk while it rose from a sitting position to standing as well as back again, it was without a doubt the quietest we’ve evaluated yet. I can barely get it to make greater than about 9.5 dB of sound, so if your most significant worry is the whirr of your electric motor, this is most definitely the one for you.
Customer care
Now, usually I don’t include much concerning the client service support of any kind of given business, just due to the fact that I feel that as a whole if a product works the way its meant to, I should not ever before have a reason to call them to begin with. As well as while I want I might claim that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I simply can’t finish this review without discussing the many, apparently countless problems I came across trying to obtain my desk assembled.
For beginners, the desk I was sent didn’t have any memory phone consisted of originally, which implied I had no way of really controlling the up/down feature on the desk itself. I called StandDesk regarding this concern, that got back to me around a day later with an apology and a promise that a brand-new one would certainly be shipped out quickly.
Standdesk testimonial handset
The resource of all our issues …
Regarding 4 days later on a phone arrived in the mail. The mobile phone initially activated, yet it wasn’t long prior to I discovered that none of the programmable buttons functioned, neither did the down switch, but for some factor the “memory” button handled the down function just great. I called the business once again, and also they excused the mixup and claimed they would have a brand-new panel as well as control box bent on me within the week.
Over 2 weeks later on my brand-new panel and control box arrived. Once I installed them both the desk ultimately started functioning the means it was supposed to, but not after nearly a month of waiting and also backward and forward with a company that could not remember to ship a core element of their item inside the very same box from the outset.
Points to Take into consideration
In spite of its bankable attributes, this stand workdesk additionally has its own disadvantages. Since no particular stand desk can record every one of the functions that you might need, you may consider these in your decision-making.
Absence of a Bar as requirement
Not having a stabilizing crossbar is definitely not a deal-breaker, especially thinking about some of our various other favored desks such as the Fully Jarvis likewise do not have one. Actually, this desk does have one if you want, yet it is a paid add-on (more on this later also).
The crossbar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it more challenging to put your legs conveniently listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they provide added security, often essential when desks are fully prolonged.
We have not review any type of problems of the security of this desk, so we do not think its something to truly be worried concerning, although if you actually desired a workdesk with a bar then we advise you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.
Conversely, StandDesk does supply a different add-on crossbar that you can add to the desk yourself, just for an extra $49.95.
Security
The security of a standing workdesk is among the most crucial facets of these workdesks. Without a stable workdesk you’ll find it hard to concentrate, which could lead to you ending up being much less thinking about making use of the desk at standing elevation. To get the most effective return on your financial investment, you’ll want to more than happy when utilizing the desk.
Since the StandDesk Simple is the first desk that I have actually checked with an optional cross assistance, I will certainly break down my stability tests into 2 areas. Both tests will certainly include the common front to back rocking examination as well as an entrusted to ideal wobble. The initial will lack the cross assistance as well as the second will certainly be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co says that the addition of the cross support can increase security by approximately 15%. I have no idea how they created that number.
Without Cross Assistance
Left to Right: The wobble examination was a various circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the second desk that I evaluated that tottered at the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the shaking movement misbehaved. Beyond this point it would certainly influence your work.
With Cross Support
Front to Back: Adding the cross support does not influence the rocking motion. The StandDesk Simple began to experienced a rocking movement at 36″. By 41″ the rocking activity misbehaved.
Entrusted to Right: Adding the cross assistance to the StandDesk enhanced the wobble activity for lower elevations. With the cross assistance the wobble motion really did not begin until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement became poor.
Keep in mind: It’s extremely crucial with flexible standing desks to completely tighten up all hardware. If there is hardware that is not entirely limited, the movement experienced when encompassed standing height will certainly be overemphasized. This is particularly true with a workdesk structure that includes 32 bolts, there are far a lot of points at which the desk has a possibility to move.
Verdict
Like all the Chinese bases we have actually examined in our laboratories, we have to tighten our suggestion on the StandDesk Pro to shorter users with narrower desktops, as the stability simply isn’t there for a huge mass raised high off the ground. American-made workdesks will certainly be much better fit to these applications, and for a fairly noticeable factor. Virtually all American-made bases are made in US factories that are owned by Swedish, Danish or German firms that invented this sector, as well as their typical residents are a lot taller than the typical Eastern customer, so they started making longer-stroke training legs a long period of time earlier. And also they have even more robotic automation, laser-cutting tools, and large experience making standing workdesk bases, it goes without saying.
Yet if you’re not also high, don’t have an inordinate amount of heavy equipment on your desktop, and don’t require too wide of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly offer you great bang for your buck.
All that could change with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 design that he expects to launch at some point in the future. Initially we were told we would certainly see it by June 2018. More than a year later it has yet to appear, and also Yu states he’s had trouble getting the product quality he requires out of a number of Chinese factories he’s tried dealing with. The brand-new layout is allegedly mosting likely to be much easier to construct as well as have a heftier bar style, among other refinements. He says the brand-new base will certainly be supplied in both a “T-Leg” and “C-Leg” arrangement, relieving our problem about side-load stressing on the training columns.
If this brand-new base ever involves market we’ll upgrade you here. We’re not holding our breath any longer as the most current news on the business is that Yu closed the tiny Los Angeles workplace and has transferred it to join with all its other staff members in southeast Asia.
In the meantime, a new $399 standing workdesk with remarkable performance has actually been present through the new joint venture in between US-based iMovR as well as China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing workdesk. While limited in dimension and color alternatives, it has taken the mantle away from StandDesk’s long-ago status as the best standing workdesk under $400.