Posts Tagged ‘electric desks’

We have a great deal more enquiries for height adjustable desks nowadays, and a good range of products to suit all requirements and budgets.

It seems that more and more workers are becoming aware of the advantages of height adjustable desks, but we should pointy out that there are distinct advantages and disadvantages with the different types of height adjustability.

In general though the advantage of having the desk height adjustable as well as your office chair is that you are one step nearer to acheiving your ergonomically perfect workstation

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This area of our business is the area which causes many  headaches.

Many customers specify top end desking systems and then fail to use the sophisticated cable management systems that they provide.
For instance sliding top desks are really useful if you need to get at your cabling on a regular basis, but no good if you have radial desks and desk height pedestals.

We have also seen sliding top bench desks specified and then fitted with central and intermediate desk top fabric screens. These units, when fitted, mean that the sliding top wont slide, which negates the point of buying them in the first place.

So we usually start a new project by looking at what the client actually needs with regard to cable management for most of the time.

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For many years we have been selling height adjustable tables, or more precisely electrically height adjustable desks  from our main office furniture site, but not without some problems.

Our main source of height adjustable tables is a Danish company called Conset, and although cheap, their product range is a not very specialised.

Their products, like all things based on price, are a little compromised and therefore the purchaser needs to make some allowance for this. For instance on certain sizes of height adjustable desk the desk frame actually partly blocks the cable port. To a normal person this would be regarded as a bad design but this height adjustable desk manufacturer is willing to accept slight flaws such as these on the basis of cheaper manufacturing costs ( and presumably less intelligent designers).

The other area where these desks have more serious problems, is where they are purchased, for example, by wheelchair users who need an electrically height adjustable desk in order just to get on with their life. The Conset  height adjustable desks all have horizontal support beams between the height adjustable legs, which reduce the amount of leg room available. This also restricts the amount of under desk space for CPU’s especially when using a CPU cradle, as the CPU has to be positioned in front of the support beam.

So if you are just after some height adjustable office furniture then in most cases their  products will fit the bill.

However, should you be looking for a height adjustable desk which has been specifically designed for a wheelchair user, then Scanflex have some very interesting and very clever products.

We will be dealing with their product range in greater detail later but  one of their products which we are very excited  about is a four  legged height adjustable desk or table, where each of the rectangular legs are height adjustable, and all operated at the same time by one control.
The legs are fixed to a box section perimeter frame, which will support all kinds of standard office desk tops. These box section frames are available in any length which allows for maximum flexibility. And best of all, the perimeter frame gives the user of the desk, the maximum amount of under desk space, and cable ports can be situated anywhere without risking being blocked by the steel frame. Plus there is plenty of room to accommodate a mobile pedestal  ( drawer unit on wheels) under the desk as well

This height adjustable desk or table and many other clever designs can be seen at on their website at www.scanflex.co.uk

There are many reasons why you might want to buy a height adjustable desk. A standard desk is about 72cm high and is designed for people of average height and reasonable mobility. An enlightened employer

Linnea Height Adjustable Bench Desk

may want to have office furniture which is adapted to suit workers outside the averages or with reduced mobility. In fact, many people interpret recent legislation regarding health and safety at work and disability discrimination as requiring employers to make height adjustable desks available to those who require them. Some classes of workers often want to use sit-stand desks, ie desks which can be easily transformed for use either sitting or standing. Many graphic designers, architects etc prefer to work in this manner.

There are basically three different types of height adjustable desk: fit-and-forget, mechanical and electrical. I will describe each in turn.

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Most desks are sold with, at best, a very limited cable management system, but more often with nothing at all.  A simple system might be a horizontal beam system for your cables and power sockets, and two cable ports in the desk top to get the wires onto the desk.

Sometimes you might even get a vertical section of trunking which will tidy away the wires from the floor up to the underside of the  desk.
But effective cabling on any desk is essential for ease of use and for safety.  And once the power and data has been successfully brought up to underneath the desk, what then ?

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Innovation is not the most used word in the office furniture industry but there are some new things out there which could change your life and the way your work. Well maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration but they are worth looking at. So in no particular order here goes :-

Desk top power modules. Have you ever considered how useful it would be to have all the sockets which are currently under you desk, on the desk itself. Standard things like power, telephone and data have been done before, but what about also having all the sockets on the back of your computer. USB, VGA, speaker and microphone, mouse, keyboard, and printer sockets all easily accessible. Plug and Play convenience at your fingertips.

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Nowadays you need more from you desk than just a flat surface to work on, so read on and you will learn what you can do and how it can improve your life, if you’ve got a spare plug socket or two.

After you have taken our advice on board, and acted on it, you will wonder how you ever got on without your power buddies.

First on the list is getting power and data onto the top of the desk. Scrabbling about underneath it for a socket to plug your phone into can be easily avoided, and the same goes with data. Simple electric modules which clamp onto the desk top, can give you whatever you want, where you want

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We all think of a desk as something you sit at but the word originated from “bureau” which was a box with a sloping top on it. You used the slope as a writing surface and the storage are underneath for your pens and paper (or quills and parchment- whatever it was called in those days). The bureau was placed on a table or a bench and you invariably stood at it in order to write.

This original idea has mutated over many years into various offspring, mainly centred around the underlying concept that you sit at it. In fact millions of people sit at desks all week for hours at a time, often sitting on badly adjusted office chairs. Continue reading »