The StandDesk was developed by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, and has been gobbled up by millennials in outstanding quantities. While it carries a ten-year warranty (the lengthiest of any kind of Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not necessarily a reliable indicator of the anticipated valuable life of the lifting columns. For the price, the StandDesk is an excellent lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis and also other Chinese-made desks. Despite its stability concerns this is a much better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever hope to be, and also a good value generally. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad classification of Chinese-made workdesks that is swaying consumers from both its less costly and also pricier peers.

StandDesk Building And Construction, Arrangement, and Gadgets

Building the desk is rather direct if you adhere to the detailed instructions. Every one of the screws, screws, washers, and also spring washing machines come in separate bags that are noted with their destination: table top, structure, and also spares. There’s a consisted of hex device for securing every one of the bolts right into the frame, or, appear a hex bit into your power device– just be careful not to over-tighten.

All of the components have a top quality finish to them with rounded edges to avoid 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 additionally consists of height-adjustable rotation equipments to maintain the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was very handy for the carpeted office flooring. I’m also making use of a flooring mat to shield the carpeting from chair wheel damage at resting height, and also push the chair when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller deserved the financial investment. The buttons are all variable pressure set, meaning the up and down arrows will certainly readjust the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or continually readjust the height by about 0.7 inches per second if you hold the button for two seconds. The memory buttons are similar in design: press to remember the height setting, or hold the button down for five seconds to store a new height value. I’m using switch 1 for my sitting setting as well as button 4 for my standing setting, which gives me 2 as well as 3 for anything I could require in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I’ve been using the new desk for a few weeks and have listed my preliminary perceptions:

The motors are quiet yet can be listened to in the next area over. It takes possibly 25 seconds for the desk to totally transition from sitting to standing based upon my presets.
I use an Ergotron side-by-side keep an eye on arm (especially this LX design), triggering the desk to get a little rocky when I move my weight against the key-board. In hindsight, I need to have purchased the bar upgrade for my desk after identifying the weight of my screens. If you intend to do a dual display arrangement, get the crossbar.

Since gravity presses the discs in a human spine, I need to raise the desk higher in the morning and also lower it at night.

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

Performance

Regardless of any type of troubles I might have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter layout, practically every one of those worries removed when I actually came down to utilizing this thing.

I didn’t believe it was even possible, the StandDesk in some way takes care of to be even a lot more stable than the Jarvis, both at sitting and also standing heights. The majority of days I such as to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pushed against my wall; not necessarily because it’s that unsteady, yet even if I desire as much stability as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also better, proving to be just as steady on its own at standing height as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s crossbar addition, which they assert includes much more security when purchased as a part of the plan deal.When it pertains to weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet even more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for as much as 350 pounds of weight ability.

I have actually been using the desk for regarding 3 weeks currently for day-to-day work (and also following standing desk finest methods), whether it’s keying out evaluations such as this one from our desktop computer or a laptop computer once in a while. The desk stands up well versus non-coastered drinks, as well as the finish on top of the desk still really feels equally as smooth and slick as the day I opened it regardless of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and also numerous wipe downs with a rag.

Though I never ever intentionally try to damage any kind of workdesks too hard, throughout some lighter tests (throwing a set of tricks onto it from a distance, for example), it still held up without too many visible indicators of damages.

Lastly, when I measured the sound outcome of the desk while it rose from a resting position to standing and also back once again, it was without a doubt the quietest we’ve tested yet. I might hardly get it to make more than about 9.5 dB of noise, so if your greatest worry is the whirr of your electric 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 provided company, just due to the fact that I feel that as a whole if a product functions the method its meant to, I should not ever have a reason to call them to begin with. As well as while I want I could state that held true during my experience with StandDesk, I just can’t finish this evaluation without stating the numerous, seemingly unlimited problems I ran into attempting to get my workdesk created.

For beginners, the desk I was sent out really did not have any kind of memory phone included originally, which indicated I had no other way of actually regulating the up/down function on the desk itself. I contacted StandDesk concerning this problem, that returned to me around a day later on with an apology and a pledge that a brand-new one would certainly be shipped out shortly.

Standdesk review handset

The resource of all our troubles …
Concerning four days later a handset showed up in the mail. The phone initially turned on, yet it wasn’t long before I noticed that none of the programmable switches functioned, nor did the down button, but also for some reason the “memory” switch managed the down function simply fine. I contacted the company once again, as well as they excused the mixup as well as stated they would certainly have a 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 got here. When I mounted them both the desk lastly started functioning the way it was supposed to, yet not after practically a month of waiting as well as to and fro with a firm that couldn’t remember to ship a core component of their product inside the very same box from the get-go.

Points to Take into consideration

Regardless of its bankable functions, this stand up workdesk additionally has its very own drawbacks. Given that no particular stand workdesk could catch all of the attributes that you may require, you might consider these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Crossbar as requirement

Not having a stabilizing crossbar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, particularly taking into consideration several of our various other favorite desks such as the Totally Jarvis likewise don’t have one. This workdesk does have one if you desire, yet it is a paid add-on (more on this later on too).

The bar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it more challenging to position your legs pleasantly below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they give added stability, frequently crucial when desks are fully extended.

We have not review any type of issues of the stability of this workdesk, so we do not think its something to truly be worried regarding, although if you truly desired a desk with a crossbar then we recommend you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

StandDesk does use a different add-on crossbar that you can add to the desk on your own, simply 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 steady desk you’ll locate it tough to concentrate, which can result in you ending up being less curious about utilizing the desk at standing height. To obtain the best return on your financial investment, you’ll want to more than happy when using the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the initial desk that I have actually examined with an optional cross assistance, I will break down my security tests into 2 areas. Both examinations will include the typical front to back rocking examination as well as an entrusted to appropriate wobble. The very first will be without the cross support and the second will certainly be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co states that the addition of the cross assistance can enhance security by up to 15%. I have no idea how they came up with that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a various circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the second workdesk that I checked that wobbled at the bottom with weight on the desktop. The first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the rocking activity was bad. Beyond this point it would affect your work.

With Cross Assistance

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

Entrusted to Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk enhanced the wobble activity for reduced heights. With the cross assistance the wobble motion didn’t start up until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble motion became negative.

Note: It’s extremely crucial with adjustable standing desks to completely tighten up all hardware. If there is hardware that is not completely tight, the motion experienced when included standing height will be exaggerated. This is particularly real with a workdesk structure that includes 32 screws, there are far way too many factors at which the desk has a chance to move.

Verdict

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually tested in our laboratories, we need to narrow our suggestion on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter customers with narrower desktop computers, as the security simply isn’t there for a large mass elevated high off the ground. American-made desks will certainly be much better suited to these applications, and also for a rather evident factor. Virtually all American-made bases are made in United States factories that are had by Swedish, Danish or German business that developed this industry, and also their average citizens are a lot taller than the average Asian consumer, so they began making longer-stroke training legs a long period of time ago. And also they have even more robotic automation, laser-cutting tools, as well as sheer experience making standing workdesk bases, it goes without saying.

If you’re not also tall, do not have an extreme quantity of heavy tools on your desktop computer, and also do not require too vast of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly offer you great bang for your dollar.

All that may change with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he expects to launch at some time in the future. Originally we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. More than a year later it has yet to emerge, and also Yu states he’s had problem obtaining the item quality he needs out of numerous Chinese factories he’s tried collaborating with. The brand-new layout is supposedly mosting likely to be much easier to assemble and have a heftier bar style, among other refinements. He claims the new base will be offered in both a “T-Leg” and “C-Leg” arrangement, reducing our issue about side-load emphasizing on the training columns.

If this brand-new base ever pertains to market we’ll update you right here. However we’re not holding our breath any kind of longer as one of the most recent information on the firm is that Yu shut the tiny Los Angeles workplace as well as has actually transferred it to join with all its various other workers in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a new $399 standing workdesk with outstanding performance has actually been introduce via the new joint endeavor between US-based iMovR and China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing desk. While limited in dimension and shade alternatives, it has actually taken the mantle far from StandDesk’s long-ago condition as the best standing desk under $400.

The StandDesk was developed by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, and also has been demolished by millennials in impressive quantities. While it brings a ten-year service warranty (the lengthiest of any Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not necessarily a reliable sign of the expected valuable life of the training columns. But also for the price, the StandDesk is a wonderful lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis and other Chinese-made workdesks. In spite of its security problems this is a much better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant can ever before intend to be, and also a good value in general. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide group of Chinese-made workdesks that is winning over clients from both its cheaper and also pricier peers.

StandDesk Building, Configuration, and also Devices

Constructing the desk is quite simple if you adhere to the detailed guidelines. All of the screws, bolts, washing machines, as well as springtime washing machines been available in separate bags that are noted with their destination: tabletop, frame, as well as spares. There’s a consisted of hex tool for fastening all of the bolts right into the frame, or, appear a hex little bit into your power tool– simply take care not to over-tighten.

Every one 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 secured to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly likewise consists of height-adjustable rotation equipments to support the front-to-back motion of the desk, which was really helpful for the carpeted home office floor. I’m likewise making use of a flooring mat to protect the rug from chair wheel damages at sitting height, and press the chair when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller deserved the investment. The buttons are all variable pressure set, suggesting the up and down arrows will certainly readjust the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or continuously adjust the elevation by about 0.7 inches per second if you hold the switch for two secs. The memory buttons are similar in style: press to remember the elevation setup, or hold the button down for 5 secs to save a new elevation value. I’m using switch 1 for my sitting placement and also button 4 for my standing setting, which gives me 2 as well as 3 for anything I could need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I’ve been making use of the brand-new workdesk for a couple of weeks and also have actually listed my preliminary perceptions:

The electric motors are quiet yet can be heard in the next room over. It takes possibly 25 secs for the desk to totally shift from resting to standing based upon my presets.
I use an Ergotron side-by-side check arm (specifically this LX design), triggering the desk to get a little rocky when I change my weight versus the key-board. In knowledge, I ought to have acquired the crossbar upgrade for my desk after establishing the weight of my displays. If you intend to do a dual screen configuration, obtain the crossbar.

Due to the fact that gravity compresses the discs in a human spine, I need to raise the desk greater in the morning as well as reduced it at night.

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

Performance

Despite any type of problems I may have had with the mobile or the cookie-cutter layout, practically all of those worries gotten rid of once I really came down to using this point.

I didn’t believe it was even possible, the StandDesk in some way manages to be also extra secure than the Jarvis, both at resting and also standing heights. The majority of days I like to run my Jarvis at max height while pressed versus my wall; not necessarily since it’s that unsteady, yet even if I want as much stability as I can get.

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

I’ve been using the desk for concerning 3 weeks now for day-to-day work (and following standing workdesk ideal practices), whether it’s typing out evaluations similar to this one from our desktop or a laptop computer every so often. The desk holds up well against non-coastered beverages, and the coating on top of the desk still feels equally as smooth as well as slick as the day I opened it in spite of days of sweaty wrists wresting on it and also numerous wipe downs with a rag.

Though I never ever purposefully attempt to damage any workdesks as well hard, during some lighter tests (throwing a set of tricks onto it from a range, for instance), it still held up without a lot of noticeable indicators of damages.

Finally, when I measured the sound result of the desk while it increased from a resting setting to standing and also back once more, it was by far the quietest we have actually tested yet. I could hardly get it to make more than concerning 9.5 dB of sound, so if your largest issue is the whirr of your motor, this is definitely the one for you.

Customer Service

Now, normally I don’t include much regarding the customer care assistance of any type of given business, only due to the fact that I feel that in general if a product functions the way its supposed to, I should not ever have a factor to call them to begin with. And also while I want I could claim that was the case throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can’t complete this evaluation without pointing out the countless, seemingly unlimited troubles I ran into attempting to obtain my workdesk created.

For starters, the desk I was sent out didn’t have any type of memory phone consisted of initially, which suggested I had no chance of in fact managing the up/down function on the desk itself. I spoke to StandDesk about this problem, who got back to me around a day later with an apology and also an assurance that a new one would certainly be shipped out soon.

Standdesk review handset

The resource of all our problems …
Concerning 4 days later a handset got here in the mail. The handset initially switched on, however it wasn’t long prior to I observed that none of the programmable switches worked, neither did the down button, however, for some factor the “memory” button handled the down function simply fine. I contacted the company once again, and also they excused the mixup as well as stated they would certainly have a new panel and also control box out to me within the week.

Over two weeks later my brand-new panel as well as control box showed up. When I mounted them both the desk finally started functioning the method it was expected to, but not after practically a month of waiting and also to and fro with a business that could not remember to ship a core part of their item inside the same box from the get-go.

Things to Take into consideration

In spite of its bankable attributes, this stand up workdesk also has its own downsides. Since no singular stand workdesk can record every one of the attributes that you may need, you may consider these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Crossbar as requirement

Not having a stabilizing crossbar is definitely not a deal-breaker, especially taking into consideration some of our other favored desks such as the Completely Jarvis additionally don’t have one. As a matter of fact, this workdesk does have one if you want, but it is a paid add-on (more on this later on too).

The crossbar is seen by some as a barrier, making it tougher to put your legs conveniently below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they offer included security, often vital when workdesks are fully extended.

We have not check out any complaints of the stability of this workdesk, so we do not assume its something to really be concerned concerning, although if you truly wanted a workdesk with a bar then we advise you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Additionally, StandDesk does offer a separate add-on bar that you can add to the desk yourself, just for an added $49.95.

Stability

The security of a standing desk is just one of the most important facets of these workdesks. Without a secure workdesk you’ll discover it tough to concentrate, which might result in you coming to be less curious about utilizing the desk at standing height. To obtain the very best return on your financial investment, you’ll intend to enjoy when utilizing the desk.

Because the StandDesk Simple is the initial workdesk that I have checked with an optional cross support, I will break down my security tests right into 2 sections. Both tests will consist of the normal front to back rocking examination as well as an entrusted to right wobble. The very first will certainly lack the cross support as well as the secondly will certainly be with it. Just to keep in mind, StandDesk.co says that the addition of the cross support can raise stability by up to 15%. I have no idea just how they came up with that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble test was a different situation. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd 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 reached 36″ the shaking movement was bad. Yet factor it would impact your job.

With Cross Assistance

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

Entrusted to Right: Adding the cross support to the StandDesk boosted the wobble motion for lower heights. With the cross assistance the wobble activity really did not begin until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble motion came to be poor.

Keep in mind: It’s very essential with adjustable standing workdesks to totally tighten up all hardware. If there is hardware that is not totally limited, the motion experienced when extended to standing elevation will be exaggerated. This is particularly real with a workdesk frame that consists of 32 screws, there are much too many factors at which the desk has a possibility to relocate.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve checked in our laboratories, we have to narrow our recommendation on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter individuals with narrower desktop computers, as the stability simply isn’t there for a big mass elevated high off the ground. American-made desks will be much better fit to these applications, and for a fairly obvious factor. Virtually all American-made bases are made in US manufacturing facilities that are owned by Swedish, Danish or German firms that developed this market, as well as their average residents are a lot taller than the ordinary Asian customer, so they began making longer-stroke training legs a very long time earlier. And also they have far more robot automation, laser-cutting tools, and large experience making standing desk bases, it goes without saying.

Yet if you’re not also high, do not have an excessive amount of hefty devices on your desktop computer, and do not need as well wide of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly provide you great value.

All that may change with Yu’s assured StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout 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 on it has yet to materialize, and Yu states he’s had trouble obtaining the product high quality he requires out of several Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s attempted working with. The brand-new layout is allegedly going to be a lot easier to set up and have a heftier crossbar style, among other refinements. He says the brand-new base will be used in both a “T-Leg” as well as “C-Leg” configuration, relieving our worry regarding side-load stressing on the training columns.

If this new base ever concerns market we’ll upgrade you here. However we’re not holding our breath any kind of longer as the most current news on the business is that Yu closed the small Los Angeles office and has relocated it to join with all its other employees in southeast Asia.

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