Height Adjustable Standing Desks

The useful part is not standing all day, which is its own problem. It is being able to change position, which people do far more readily when it takes four seconds and a button. If you buy one, buy one with memory settings, because the ones that need holding a button get used as ordinary desks within a fortnight.

A dual motor desk has one motor per leg, so it lifts more, moves faster and stays level under an uneven load. A single motor costs less and is fine for a lighter setup. If the desk will carry two screens, a laptop dock and a stack of paperwork, buy dual.

Memory positions, so sitting and standing heights are one press away. An anti-collision sensor, which stops the desk when it meets a pedestal or a bin on the way down and saves the desktop. A handset lock if there are children or a shared floor. Everything else is a preference.

Standing height is roughly elbow height with shoulders relaxed, which for most adults is somewhere between 100cm and 120cm. The desks here give their travel on the page. Check the bottom of the range too if the user is shorter than average, because plenty of desks do not go low enough to sit at properly.

They need slack, and that is the thing people get wrong. Run everything into a tray or a spine fixed to the desk, leave enough loop for the full travel, and keep the wall socket close. A cable that is taut at standing height will unplug itself or pull something off the desk.

Standard delivery is free on everything, and most of it lands inside a week. Express delivery is offered on much of the range, priced per item on the product page, and gets an order to you within two working days if you place it before 5pm. Nothing here is made to order, so the lead times are the standard ones.

Yes, on everything here. The crew deliver it, build it, put it where you want it and take the packaging away. It starts at £25.95 an item and the exact price is on each product page. Installs usually happen within about 10 working days, and the team agree the day with you rather than simply turning up.

Most of it arrives flat-packed, with the instructions and fittings in the box. If you would rather not build it, pre-assembled delivery and installation are offered on much of the range and priced per item on the product page.

Guarantees across this category run to 5 years, depending on the product and the part, and the figure is on every product page. Structure, mechanism, electrics, and fabric and foam are often covered for different lengths of time. If something fails inside the warranty, report it from your order page and we deal with the manufacturer for you.

Ten of the 11 products in this category have a 3D model on the page rather than only photographs. The viewer spins the actual model, and changing a colour or a size on the page changes the model with it, which is worth doing before committing a whole room to a finish.

Yes. For twenty items or more, or anything with a complication like a mezzanine or a lift that argues back, we plan the job and give you one quote covering the goods, delivery and installation. Ring 0208 138 0512 or email [email protected] with a rough list or a floor plan.