The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, and also has been gobbled up by millennials in impressive quantities. While it lugs a ten-year guarantee (the longest of any type of Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not necessarily a reliable indication of the anticipated useful life of the training columns. But also for the rate, the StandDesk is a fantastic lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis and also various other Chinese-made desks. Despite its stability problems this is a far better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant can ever before wish to be, as well as a good value on the whole. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide category of Chinese-made desks that is swaying consumers from both its cheaper as well as costlier peers.

StandDesk Building And Construction, Setup, and Devices

Building the desk is quite easy if you comply with the in-depth instructions. Every one of the screws, screws, washers, and also springtime washers can be found in different bags that are marked with their location: table top, structure, and also spares. There’s an included hex device for securing every one of the bolts into the structure, or, appear a hex bit right into your power tool– simply take care not to over-tighten.

All of the components have a premium quality coating to them with rounded corners 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 also consists of height-adjustable turning gears to support the front-to-back movement of the desk, which was really valuable for the carpeted home office floor. I’m additionally utilizing a flooring mat to shield the carpeting from chair wheel damages at resting height, as well as press the chair when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller was worth the financial investment. The switches are all variable stress set, indicating the backwards and forwards arrows will certainly adjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continually readjust the height by about 0.7 inches per second if you hold the switch for 2 secs. The memory buttons are comparable in layout: push to recall the height setup, or hold the button down for five secs to keep a new height worth. I’m making use of button 1 for my resting setting as well as button 4 for my standing setting, which offers me 2 as well as 3 for anything I could require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I have actually been using the brand-new workdesk for a few weeks and also have actually made a note of my preliminary impacts:

The electric motors are quiet however can be heard in the following room over. It takes probably 25 secs for the desk to completely transition from resting to standing based upon my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (specifically this LX design), triggering the desk to get a little rocky when I change my weight against the keyboard. In knowledge, I should have bought the bar upgrade for my workdesk after determining the weight of my screens. If you prepare to do a dual display setup, obtain the crossbar.

Due to the fact that gravity compresses the discs in a human spinal column, I need to raise the desk higher in the early morning and also reduced it at night.

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

Efficiency

Despite any kind of problems I might have had with the handset or the cookie-cutter layout, pretty much all of those concerns gotten rid of as soon as I actually got down to utilizing this point.

I really did not assume it was also feasible, the StandDesk in some way handles to be also a lot more stable than the Jarvis, both at sitting and also standing heights. The majority of days I like to run my Jarvis at max height while pushed versus my wall surface; not necessarily due to the fact that it’s that wobbly, but just because I want as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even further, proving to be just as steady by itself at standing height as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s crossbar addition, which they assert adds much more stability when purchased as a part of the plan deal.When it comes to weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet even more statistics with the Jarvis, being rated for approximately 350 lbs of weight ability.

I have actually been making use of the desk for concerning 3 weeks currently for day-to-day job (as well as complying with standing workdesk ideal practices), whether it’s inputting out evaluations like this one from our desktop or a laptop computer every now and then. The desk stands up well against non-coastered drinks, as well as the finish on top of the desk still feels just as smooth and also slick as the day I opened it regardless of days of sweaty wrists wresting on it and also several clean downs with a dustcloth.

I never deliberately try to damage any kind of desks also hard, during some lighter tests (throwing a set of keys onto it from a range, for instance), it still held up without as well lots of noticeable indications of damage.

Lastly, when I gauged the noise outcome of the desk while it climbed from a sitting placement to standing and also back once again, it was without a doubt the quietest we’ve checked yet. I could hardly get it to make more than concerning 9.5 dB of sound, so if your greatest issue is the whirr of your electric motor, this is absolutely the one for you.

Customer Service

Now, normally I don’t include much about the customer service support of any type of given company, just due to the fact that I feel that generally if an item functions the method its intended to, I shouldn’t ever have a reason to call them to begin with. As well as while I desire I can claim that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can’t complete this evaluation without discussing the numerous, apparently unlimited problems I ran into attempting to get my desk assembled.

For starters, the desk I was sent out really did not have any kind of memory handset included initially, which suggested I had no other way of actually managing the up/down feature on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk concerning this issue, that returned to me around a day later on with an apology and a promise that a brand-new one would be shipped out soon.

Standdesk testimonial handset

The resource of all our issues …
About 4 days later on a mobile phone showed up in the mail. The handset originally activated, however it wasn’t long prior to I saw that none of the programmable buttons worked, nor did the down button, however, for some reason the “memory” switch handled the down function just fine. I got in touch with the business again, as well as they apologized for the mixup and also claimed they would certainly have a new panel as well as control box bent on me within the week.

Over two weeks later my new panel and also control box got here. Once I installed them both the desk finally began functioning the means it was meant to, however not after practically a month of waiting and also backward and forward with a company that could not bear in mind to ship a core element of their item inside the exact same box from the get-go.

Points to Consider

Despite its bankable functions, this stand workdesk additionally has its very own downsides. Considering that no particular stand workdesk might record every one of the functions that you may need, you may take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Bar as requirement

Not having a maintaining bar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, particularly considering a few of our various other favored desks such as the Completely Jarvis also 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 also).

The bar is seen by some as a limitation, making it harder to position your legs pleasantly listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they offer included stability, usually important when desks are totally prolonged.

We have not read any complaints of the security of this workdesk, so we do not assume its something to truly be worried regarding, although if you truly desired a workdesk with a crossbar then we suggest you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

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

Security

The stability of a standing workdesk is one of one of the most important facets of these workdesks. Without a secure desk you’ll discover it hard to focus, which might lead to you coming to be less interested in using the desk at standing height. To obtain the most effective return on your investment, you’ll intend to be happy when making use of the desk.

Due To The Fact That the StandDesk Simple is the initial desk that I have tested with an optional cross support, I will certainly break down my stability examinations into 2 sections. Both examinations will certainly consist of the common front to back rocking examination and also a delegated ideal wobble. The initial will certainly be without the cross support and also the second will certainly be with it. Simply to keep in mind, StandDesk.co claims that the enhancement of the cross support can raise stability by approximately 15%. I have no idea how they created that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble test was a different scenario. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd desk that I checked that wobbled at the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the rocking motion was bad. Yet factor it would affect your job.

With Cross Assistance

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

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

Keep in mind: It’s really important with flexible standing workdesks to totally tighten all hardware. If there is hardware that is not entirely limited, the motion experienced when encompassed standing elevation will certainly be overemphasized. This is particularly true with a desk framework that consists of 32 bolts, there are far too many points at which the desk has an opportunity to relocate.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve evaluated in our labs, we need to narrow our recommendation on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter users with narrower desktop computers, as the stability just isn’t there for a huge mass raised high off the ground. American-made workdesks will be better fit to these applications, and for a rather obvious reason. Basically all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German companies that developed this industry, and also their average citizens are a whole lot taller than the ordinary Oriental customer, so they started making longer-stroke training legs a long time ago. As well as they have far more robotic automation, laser-cutting tools, and also large experience making standing desk bases, needless to say.

But if you’re not also high, do not have an extreme quantity of hefty equipment on your desktop, as well as do not need also wide of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will offer you excellent bang for your buck.

All that may change with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he expects to release at some point in the future. Initially we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later on it has yet to materialize, and also Yu states he’s had problem obtaining the product top quality he requires out of a number of Chinese factories he’s tried dealing with. The new layout is apparently mosting likely to be a lot easier to assemble and also have a heftier bar style, among other refinements. He says the brand-new base will be supplied in both a “T-Leg” and “C-Leg” setup, alleviating our worry about side-load worrying on the training columns.

If this new base ever before involves market we’ll upgrade you here. But we’re not holding our breath any kind of longer as the most recent information on the business is that Yu shut the little 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 desk with impressive performance has been present via the brand-new joint venture between US-based iMovR and also China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing desk. While limited in size and also color options, it has actually taken the mantle far from StandDesk’s long-ago standing as the most effective standing desk under $400.

The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, and has actually been demolished by millennials in impressive quantities. While it carries a ten-year service warranty (the longest of any kind of Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not necessarily a trusted indication of the expected beneficial life of the lifting columns. However, for the price, the StandDesk is a fantastic lower-cost option to the UpLift, Jarvis and also various other Chinese-made desks. Despite its stability concerns this is a much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before wish to be, and also a good value in general. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad category of Chinese-made workdesks that is gaining clients from both its more affordable as well as more expensive peers.

StandDesk Building And Construction, Configuration, as well as Gadgets

Building the desk is quite easy if you follow the in-depth guidelines. Every one of the screws, bolts, washers, and springtime washers can be found in different bags that are noted with their destination: tabletop, structure, and also spares. There’s a consisted of hex tool for fastening all of the bolts into the framework, or, appear a hex little bit into your power device– just be careful not to over-tighten.

Every one of the parts have a high 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 assembly– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly also consists of height-adjustable rotation gears to support the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was extremely useful for the carpeted home office flooring. I’m also using a floor mat to secure the rug from chair wheel damage at sitting elevation, and push 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, suggesting the up and down arrows will certainly change the height by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or continuously readjust the height by about 0.7 inches per second if you hold the switch for two secs. The memory buttons are similar in design: push to remember the elevation setting, or hold the button down for five seconds to store a new height value. I’m using button 1 for my sitting setting as well as button 4 for my standing placement, which provides me 2 and also 3 for anything I could need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I have actually been utilizing the brand-new desk for a couple of weeks as well as have made a note of my preliminary impacts:

The motors are quiet yet can be listened to in the next room over. It takes possibly 25 seconds for the desk to fully change from resting to standing based upon my presets.
I use an Ergotron side-by-side monitor arm (specifically this LX design), creating the desk to get a little rough when I shift my weight against the keyboard. In knowledge, I need to have purchased the bar upgrade for my workdesk after identifying the weight of my displays. If you intend to do a double display arrangement, obtain the crossbar.

Since gravity compresses the discs in a human back, I need to increase the desk greater in the early morning as well as lower it in the evening.

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

Performance

Despite any kind of troubles I may have had with the mobile or the cookie-cutter design, pretty much all of those problems removed when I in fact got down to utilizing this thing.

Although I really did not think it was also feasible, the StandDesk in some way handles to be much more stable than the Jarvis, both at resting and also 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, but just because I desire as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even better, showing to be just as constant by itself at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s crossbar enhancement, which they assert includes a lot more security when acquired as a part of the package deal.When it concerns weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more statistics with the Jarvis, being ranked for approximately 350 pounds of weight ability.

I have actually been utilizing the desk for about three weeks now for day-to-day work (as well as following standing desk best practices), whether it’s keying out evaluations such as this one from our desktop computer or a laptop computer periodically. The desk stands up well against non-coastered beverages, as well as the finish on top of the desk still really feels equally as smooth as well as glossy as the day I opened it regardless of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and multiple clean downs with a dustcloth.

Though I never intentionally try to dent any workdesks as well hard, throughout some lighter tests (tossing a collection of tricks onto it from a distance, for example), it still stood up without too many noticeable indications of damage.

Finally, when I determined the sound output of the desk while it rose from a sitting placement to standing as well as back once more, it was by far the quietest we have actually tested yet. I could hardly get it to make greater than about 9.5 dB of sound, so if your most significant concern is the whirr of your motor, this is most definitely the one for you.

Customer care

Now, generally I do not include much regarding the client service support of any kind of provided company, just since I feel that as a whole if an item works the means its meant to, I should not ever before have a reason to call them to begin with. As well as while I desire I might claim that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I just can’t finish this testimonial without pointing out the many, apparently limitless problems I came across trying to get my desk put together.

For beginners, the desk I was sent out really did not have any kind of memory mobile phone included initially, which indicated I had no chance of really regulating the up/down feature on the desk itself. I called StandDesk regarding this concern, who returned to me around a day later with an apology as well as an assurance that a brand-new one would be shipped out quickly.

Standdesk evaluation handset

The resource of all our issues …
About four days later a handset showed up in the mail. The phone initially activated, but it wasn’t long prior to I discovered that none of the programmable buttons functioned, nor did the down switch, but also for some reason the “memory” button dealt with the down feature just great. I spoke to the company again, as well as they excused the mixup and stated they would certainly have a new panel and control box bent on me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later my new panel and also control box arrived. Once I mounted them both the desk ultimately began functioning the method it was meant to, however not after almost a month of waiting as well as back and forth with a firm that couldn’t keep in mind to deliver a core part of their product inside the same box from the start.

Points to Think about

Regardless of its bankable attributes, this stand up desk additionally has its own downsides. Because no single stand desk could catch all of the attributes that you might require, you might consider these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Bar as criterion

Not having a maintaining crossbar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, particularly taking into consideration some of our various other preferred desks such as the Fully Jarvis likewise do not have one. This workdesk does have one if you want, yet it is a paid add-on (a lot more on this later on too).

The crossbar is seen by some as a barrier, making it tougher to put your legs easily listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, find that they supply included stability, frequently essential when desks are totally prolonged.

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

StandDesk does use a different add-on bar that you can add to the workdesk yourself, just for an additional $49.95.

Security

The security of a standing desk is one of the most crucial aspects of these desks. Without a stable workdesk you’ll find it tough to focus, which can result in you ending up being much less curious about using the desk at standing elevation. To obtain the most effective return on your financial investment, you’ll wish to be happy when making use of the desk.

Because the StandDesk Simple is the first workdesk that I have actually checked with an optional cross support, I will certainly break down my stability examinations right into 2 sections. Both tests will certainly include the common front to back shaking test as well as an entrusted to right wobble. The very first will certainly lack the cross assistance as well as the secondly will be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co claims that the enhancement of the cross support can increase stability by up to 15%. I have no suggestion 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 second desk that I evaluated that wobbled at the bottom with weight on the desktop. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the shaking movement misbehaved. Beyond this point it would certainly impact your job.

With Cross Support

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

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

Note: It’s extremely crucial with flexible standing workdesks to completely tighten all hardware. If there is hardware that is not entirely limited, the activity experienced when reached standing elevation will be overemphasized. This is particularly real with a workdesk structure that includes 32 bolts, there are much a lot of points at which the desk has a chance to relocate.

Conclusion

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually tested in our laboratories, we have to tighten our suggestion on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter customers with narrower desktops, as the stability simply isn’t there for a big mass elevated high off the ground. American-made workdesks will certainly be better suited to these applications, and also for a relatively noticeable reason. Basically all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are possessed by Swedish, Danish or German companies that designed this industry, and also their ordinary residents are a lot taller than the average Eastern customer, so they began making longer-stroke lifting legs a very long time ago. And also they have even more robotic automation, laser-cutting equipment, and large experience making standing workdesk bases, obviously.

If you’re not as well tall, do not have an extreme amount of hefty tools on your desktop computer, and don’t need too large of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly provide you excellent bang for your buck.

All that might alter with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he expects to launch at some time in the future. Originally we were told we ‘d see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later on it has yet to emerge, and also Yu states he’s had problem getting the product quality he needs out of numerous Chinese factories he’s tried dealing with. The brand-new style is apparently going to be a lot easier to assemble and have a heftier crossbar style, among other refinements. He claims the new base will certainly be provided in both a “T-Leg” and “C-Leg” setup, relieving our problem about side-load worrying on the lifting columns.

If this new base ever before involves market we’ll update you here. We’re not holding our breath any type of longer as the most current news on the business is that Yu shut the little Los Angeles office and also has actually transferred it to join with all its other staff members in southeast Asia.

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