The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed straight at millennials, and has been gobbled up by millennials in outstanding volumes. While it lugs a ten-year guarantee (the lengthiest of any Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not necessarily a dependable sign of the anticipated helpful life of the lifting columns. But for the rate, the StandDesk is an excellent lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis as well as various other Chinese-made desks. Despite its stability concerns this is a much better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before want 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 gaining consumers from both its more affordable and also pricier peers.

StandDesk Building, Configuration, and Gadgets

Developing the desk is pretty easy if you follow the thorough guidelines. Every one of the screws, bolts, washers, and also spring washing machines come in separate bags that are noted with their location: tabletop, structure, and also spares. There’s an included hex tool for fastening every one of the bolts right into the structure, or, pop in a hex little bit into your power tool– simply beware not to over-tighten.

All of the components have an excellent quality finish to them with rounded edges to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the screws that are secured to the leg assembly– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

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

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller was worth the financial investment. The buttons are all variable pressure configured, meaning the up and down arrowheads will certainly adjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continuously adjust the elevation by around 0.7 inches per second if you hold the switch for 2 seconds. The memory switches are comparable in style: press to remember the elevation setting, or hold the button down for five seconds to keep a brand-new elevation worth. I’m making use of switch 1 for my resting placement as well as button 4 for my standing position, which offers me 2 as well as 3 for anything I may require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I’ve been utilizing the new desk for a couple of weeks and also have documented my first impressions:

The electric motors are quiet however can be heard in the next room over. It takes perhaps 25 secs for the desk to totally shift from sitting to standing based on my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side monitor arm (especially this LX model), causing the desk to get a little rough when I move my weight against the key-board. In knowledge, I should have purchased the bar upgrade for my workdesk after establishing the weight of my screens. If you plan to do a dual screen configuration, get the crossbar.

Because gravity compresses the discs in a human spine, I require to elevate the desk greater in the early morning and lower it at night.

An anti-fatigue floor covering is absolutely crucial for long period of time standing. I bought an Octagonal mat from SmartCells, making use of rubber “cells” that are visualized listed below.

Performance

Despite any issues I may have had with the handset or the cookie-cutter style, practically every one of those issues gotten rid of when I in fact came down to using this thing.

Although I didn’t assume it was even feasible, the StandDesk somehow manages to be even more stable than the Jarvis, both at sitting and standing heights. A lot of days I such as to run my Jarvis at max height while pushed versus my wall surface; not always due to the fact that it’s that unsteady, but just because I desire as much security as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even better, confirming to be equally as constant on its own at standing height as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s bar enhancement, which they assert adds much more security when bought as a part of the plan deal.When it pertains to weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet even more statistics with the Jarvis, being ranked for approximately 350 lbs of weight capacity.

I’ve been making use of the desk for regarding 3 weeks currently for daily job (and also complying with standing workdesk best methods), whether it’s keying out reviews similar to this one from our desktop computer or a laptop once in a while. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered beverages, and also the coating in addition to the desk still really feels just as smooth as well as glossy as the day I opened it in spite of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and also multiple wipe downs with a cloth.

Though I never deliberately try to dent any workdesks as well hard, throughout some lighter examinations (throwing a collection of keys onto it from a range, for example), it still stood up without way too many noticeable indications of damage.

Lastly, when I determined the sound outcome of the desk while it rose from a resting position to standing and back again, it was by far the quietest we’ve evaluated yet. I could barely get it to make greater than concerning 9.5 dB of noise, so if your greatest problem is the whirr of your motor, this is absolutely the one for you.

Customer care

Now, usually I do not consist of much concerning the customer support support of any kind of provided firm, only since I feel that generally if an item functions the method its supposed to, I shouldn’t ever before have a factor 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 testimonial without discussing the numerous, relatively endless troubles I experienced attempting to get my workdesk put together.

For beginners, the desk I was sent didn’t have any type of memory phone consisted of originally, which meant I had no chance of actually managing the up/down feature on the desk itself. I called StandDesk concerning this problem, that got back to me around a day later on with an apology and also a guarantee that a new one would certainly be shipped out shortly.

Standdesk review handset

The source of all our troubles …
Concerning 4 days later on a mobile arrived in the mail. The handset at first activated, yet it wasn’t long before I noticed that none of the programmable switches functioned, neither did the down button, but also for some factor the “memory” switch managed the down function simply great. I got in touch with the business once more, and also they excused the mixup as well as stated they would have a new panel as well as control box bent on me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later my new panel as well as control box got here. Once I installed them both the desk lastly began functioning the way it was expected to, however not after nearly a month of waiting and also back and forth with a business that couldn’t remember to deliver a core component of their product inside the very same box from the start.

Points to Consider

Despite its bankable features, this stand up desk also has its own downsides. Since no particular stand workdesk might record every one of the features that you may require, you may think about these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Crossbar as criterion

Not having a stabilizing bar is certainly not a deal-breaker, particularly taking into consideration a few of our other favorite desks such as the Completely Jarvis also do not have one. Actually, this workdesk does have one if you desire, however it is a paid add-on (more on this later too).

The bar is seen by some as a barrier, making it more difficult to place your legs easily listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they provide added stability, typically critical when desks are completely prolonged.

We have not read any kind of complaints of the stability of this desk, so we don’t believe its something to actually be worried regarding, although if you really desired a desk with a crossbar then we recommend you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

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

Stability

The security of a standing desk is one of one of the most important aspects of these desks. Without a secure workdesk you’ll discover it tough to concentrate, which could cause you becoming much less interested in making use of the desk at standing elevation. To obtain the most effective return on your financial investment, you’ll intend to more than happy when using the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the initial desk that I have actually checked with an optional cross support, I will break down my security examinations right into two areas. Both tests will certainly consist of the normal front to back shaking examination and an entrusted to right wobble. The first will certainly be without the cross support and also the second will be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co states that the enhancement of the cross assistance can enhance security by as much as 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 desk that I evaluated that tottered near the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the shaking activity was bad. Yet point it would certainly influence your job.

With Cross Assistance

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

Left to Right: Adding the cross support to the StandDesk improved the wobble activity for lower elevations. With the cross assistance the wobble movement really did not begin until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement came to be poor.

Keep in mind: It’s very important with adjustable standing workdesks to fully tighten up all hardware. If there is hardware that is not entirely tight, the movement experienced when extended to standing elevation will certainly be overemphasized. This is especially real with a desk frame that includes 32 screws, there are much way too many factors at which the desk has an opportunity to move.

Verdict

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually tested in our laboratories, we need to narrow our recommendation on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter individuals 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, and for a fairly evident reason. Essentially all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German business that designed this sector, and also their average citizens are a great deal taller than the ordinary Eastern customer, so they began making longer-stroke lifting legs a long time back. And they have even more robotic automation, laser-cutting equipment, as well as large experience making standing workdesk bases, needless to say.

If you’re not also tall, do not have an inordinate quantity of hefty equipment on your desktop, as well as do not require as well large of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly give you good bang for your dollar.

All that may alter with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he expects to launch at some point in the future. Originally we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. More than a year later on it has yet to emerge, and also Yu states he’s had difficulty obtaining the product top quality he needs out of several Chinese factories he’s tried dealing with. The brand-new layout is allegedly mosting likely to be much easier to set up and have a heftier crossbar style, among other refinements. He claims the new base will certainly be offered in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” setup, easing our issue concerning side-load emphasizing on the training columns.

If this new base ever before concerns market we’ll upgrade you below. Yet we’re not holding our breath any type of longer as one of the most recent news on the company is that Yu shut the tiny Los Angeles workplace as well as has moved it to accompany all its various other workers in southeast Asia.

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

The StandDesk was developed by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, as well as has actually been gobbled up by millennials in outstanding volumes. While it lugs a ten-year warranty (the lengthiest of any Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not necessarily a trusted indicator of the anticipated beneficial life of the training columns. For the price, the StandDesk is an excellent lower-cost alternative to the UpLift, Jarvis and also other Chinese-made desks. Regardless of its stability problems this is a much much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before wish to be, and a good value overall. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad category of Chinese-made desks that is swaying customers from both its more affordable and also more expensive peers.

StandDesk Construction, Configuration, as well as Gizmos

Building the desk is rather straight forward if you adhere to the detailed guidelines. Every one of the screws, bolts, washing machines, as well as spring washers come in different bags that are marked with their destination: tabletop, frame, as well as spares. There’s an included hex device for securing all of the screws right into the frame, or, pop in a hex bit right into your power device– just beware not to over-tighten.

Every one of the components have a high quality coating to them with rounded corners to avoid 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 also consists of height-adjustable turning equipments to support the front-to-back movement of the desk, which was very helpful for the carpeted home office floor. I’m likewise utilizing a floor mat to secure the rug from chair wheel damage at sitting elevation, and push the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller deserved the investment. The buttons are all variable stress set, meaning the up and down arrows will certainly change the height by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or continuously change the height by around 0.7 inches per second if you hold the switch for 2 seconds. The memory switches are similar in layout: press to recall the elevation setting, or hold the button down for five secs to save a brand-new height worth. I’m utilizing button 1 for my sitting position and button 4 for my standing setting, which provides me 2 and also 3 for anything I could require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I have actually been using the new desk for a couple of weeks and have actually listed my preliminary impacts:

The electric motors are quiet but can be heard in the next space over. It takes perhaps 25 seconds for the desk to fully change from resting to standing based on my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (specifically this LX version), creating the desk to get a little rocky when I change my weight versus the key-board. In knowledge, I need to have bought the crossbar upgrade for my workdesk after figuring out the weight of my monitors. If you prepare to do a double display arrangement, get the bar.

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

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

Performance

Despite any kind of issues I might have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter layout, virtually all of those problems washed away as soon as I actually got down to using this point.

I really did not believe it was also possible, the StandDesk somehow manages to be even much more stable than the Jarvis, both at sitting as well as standing elevations. A lot of days I such as to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pressed against my wall; not always since it’s that shaky, yet just because I want as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even better, confirming to be equally as steady on its own at standing height as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the firm’s bar addition, which they declare includes a lot more security 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 up to 350 lbs of weight capacity.

I’ve been making use of the desk for about three weeks now for day-to-day job (as well as adhering to standing desk best methods), whether it’s keying out testimonials like this one from our desktop computer or a laptop computer once in a while. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered beverages, and also the coating on top of the desk still feels equally as smooth and also glossy as the day I opened it regardless of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and also several clean downs with a rag.

Though I never intentionally try to damage any desks as well hard, during some lighter tests (tossing a set of secrets onto it from a range, as an example), it still stood up without a lot of visible indications of damage.

When I gauged the noise output of the workdesk while it increased from a resting position to standing and back once more, it was by much the quietest we have actually checked. I might barely get it to make greater than regarding 9.5 dB of sound, so if your biggest concern is the whirr of your motor, this is certainly the one for you.

Customer care

Currently, usually I don’t consist of much about the client service support of any offered firm, just because I feel that in general if an item works the method its supposed to, I should not ever have a reason to call them to begin with. As well as while I desire I could state that held true during my experience with StandDesk, I just can not complete this review without mentioning the many, relatively limitless issues I came across attempting to get my workdesk assembled.

For starters, the desk I was sent didn’t have any type of memory mobile phone consisted of originally, which meant I had no chance of in fact controlling the up/down feature on the desk itself. I spoke to StandDesk about this concern, who returned to me around a day later with an apology as well as a guarantee that a brand-new one would be shipped shortly.

Standdesk evaluation handset

The resource of all our troubles …
Regarding 4 days later a mobile phone showed up in the mail. The mobile phone originally switched on, but it wasn’t long prior to I saw that none of the programmable buttons worked, neither did the down button, but for some factor the “memory” switch took care of the down feature simply fine. I contacted the company once again, as well as they excused the mixup as well as stated they would certainly have a brand-new panel and control box bent on me within the week.

Over two weeks later my brand-new panel and control box arrived. As soon as I mounted them both the desk ultimately started working the method 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 deliver a core element of their product inside the exact same box from the get-go.

Points to Take into consideration

Regardless of its bankable attributes, this stand desk likewise has its very own disadvantages. Since no particular stand workdesk can record all of the attributes that you may require, you may think about these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Bar as standard

Not having a supporting bar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, especially thinking about some of our various other preferred desks such as the Totally Jarvis additionally don’t have one. This desk does have one if you desire, however it is a paid add-on (a lot more on this later also).

The crossbar is seen by some as a limitation, making it tougher to put your legs easily below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they supply added security, frequently important when desks are completely extended.

We have not check out any grievances of the security of this workdesk, so we do not believe its something to actually be worried regarding, although if you really desired a workdesk with a bar then we recommend you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Conversely, StandDesk does provide a separate add-on bar that you can include in the desk yourself, just for an extra $49.95.

Security

The stability of a standing desk is just one of the most important aspects of these desks. Without a steady workdesk you’ll discover it hard to concentrate, which could result in you coming to be less interested in making use of the desk at standing height. To get the most effective return on your financial investment, you’ll wish to be happy when using the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the first desk that I have evaluated with an optional cross assistance, I will certainly break down my security tests into 2 areas. Both examinations will include the common front to back rocking test and a delegated appropriate wobble. The very first will lack the cross support as well as the second will certainly be with it. Just to note, StandDesk.co claims that the addition of the cross assistance can boost security by approximately 15%. I have no concept just how they came up with that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble test was a different circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd desk that I checked that wobbled at the bottom with weight on the desktop. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the shaking movement was bad. Beyond this point it would influence your work.

With Cross Support

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

Left to Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk improved the wobble motion for reduced 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 negative.

Note: It’s very vital with flexible standing workdesks to completely tighten up all hardware. If there is hardware that is not totally tight, the movement experienced when extended to standing elevation will certainly be overemphasized. This is particularly true with a desk structure that includes 32 screws, there are far a lot of points at which the desk has a chance to relocate.

Verdict

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve tested in our laboratories, we need to tighten 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 elevated high off the ground. American-made workdesks will certainly be much better fit to these applications, and for a fairly evident reason. Essentially all American-made bases are made in US factories that are had by Swedish, Danish or German companies that invented this market, and also their ordinary residents are a great deal taller than the typical Eastern customer, so they began making longer-stroke training legs a long period of time ago. And they have even more robot automation, laser-cutting devices, as well as sheer experience making standing workdesk bases, needless to say.

If you’re not also tall, do not have an excessive quantity of heavy equipment on your desktop computer, and don’t need also large of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will provide you good bang for your buck.

All that may change with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he expects to release at some time in the future. Initially we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later on it has yet to appear, as well as Yu states he’s had difficulty getting the product top quality he requires out of numerous Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s tried working with. The brand-new layout is allegedly mosting likely to be a lot easier to construct and have a heftier crossbar layout, to name a few refinements. He claims the brand-new base will certainly be used in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” configuration, alleviating our concern concerning side-load stressing on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever before involves market we’ll update you below. But we’re not holding our breath any longer as the most recent information on the company is that Yu shut the tiny Los Angeles workplace and has actually moved it to join with all its other staff members in southeast Asia.

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