Office Desks

120cm is workable for a laptop and a screen, 140cm to 160cm is the comfortable standard for most office work, and 180cm suits dual screens or paperwork. Depth of 70cm to 80cm is standard. Widths across this category run from 80cm to 542cm.

A straight desk is one person, one top, and is what most offices are built from. A bench desk shares a frame between two or more people and is how you fit a floor efficiently. A corner or L-shaped desk gives more surface in the same footprint and suits a room with a corner to use. A height-adjustable desk does any of those and also goes up.

More than people expect. A cantilever leg leaves the space under the desk clear and is easy to get in and out of. A panel end or box frame is more solid and screens the underside. A cable-managed leg has a route for cables built into it, which is the difference between a tidy floor and a taped-down extension lead.

Order the cable management with the desks. A tray under the top, a spine or cartridge to take the drop, and a cable port in the top if you need one, which is an option on many desks here and is cut at the factory. Doing it afterwards costs more and looks it.

The guarantees in this category run to ten years on the structure of several ranges, which tells you what the makers expect. Contract desking is built around an MFC top that wipes clean and a frame that holds square, rather than around a finish that photographs well.

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 from 5 to 10 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.

42 of the 43 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.