MAIDeSITeAdjustable Height Standing Desk Frame Two-Stage Desk Stand Sit-stand Table Workstation Ergonomic Workplace with Memory Smart Pannel (2 Stage|Dual Motor, Black) T2 Pro

My first standing desk was from Ikea, which is arguably the most popular standing desk. I used it for a couple of years and it certainly fit with my decision to spending time both sitting and standing. However, after a further back injury (I herniated my back in the oh so common L4/L5 zone over ten years ago) I got myself a fit ball for a period of time and used that. My back mostly recovered but my routine for sitting and standing didn’t and that was down to poor habits and laziness. The laziness was no doubt down to the fact that the Ikea desk required a handle to be turned to change the desk height and yes, I grew too lazy to even do that.A few years went by and the Ikea desk travelled to a new home and I stayed sat on my fit ball. I eventually ‘upgraded’ to a Herman Miller Aeron chair and then shortly after that decided that I wanted to give sitting / standing a new go. I thought about recovering my Ikea desk but could hardly take it back from my wife (she runs a dance school and has the desk permanently in standing standing mode in one of her studios). So, I looked into a new standing desk. A motorised one.Geeky excitement ensued as I searched for a sitting / standing desk with …. motors.After my research, I had discovered that motorised desks have either a single or dual motor assembly. Single motors are cheaper and usually weaker than their dual motor counterparts. However, dual motor versions can sometimes get out of sync, whereby the two motors run at different speeds, resulting in a desk surface which isn’t level. You also get two and three stage legs - not much difference there (certainly not regarding stability) but three stage versions do allow for higher and lower desk heights. The next issue to consider would be the dimensions of the desktop itself. I wanted a desk that was sat least 70cm deep with a width of around 120cm (about 28” by 47”). Two stage, dual motor desks with these dimensions in a finish I liked were few a far between. In the end, I decided to buy the legs and motor assembly and source my own desk surface.I opted for the MAIDeSITe Adjustable Height Standing Desk Dual Motors - Black (currently selling on Amazon for £240.00). Hence my review here.The next problem was that I wanted a wooden desk top and wood, nice wood, is really quite pricey. For example, the pieces I was looking at more than doubled the cost of the desk legs. So, after some back and forth I bought a cheap piece of ply, laid some wood effect laminate flooring I had across the top and cut it to the dimensions I was after. I told myself that my plan would be to use this as a test to see if the dimensions were a good fit. After a few weeks, I’ve given up on the search for a nice bit of wood and will stick with my botch job for the foreseeable future. If a suitable bit of wood turns up, I’ll switch, no questions but for now, I’m very happy with how it has turned out (see pic).So, after assembling the desk (a couple of hours work including making the legs / base and cutting the laminate flooring) what’s it been like? Wonderful. The MAIDeSITe desk works very well indeed. The dual motors are very smooth and quiet (I like the noise they make when in use - sounds like a sci-fi movie sound effect) and they raise and lower my desk setup with ease (I have an ultrawide monitor weighing over 6kgs, along with a Mac mini, monitor stand, some books, the desk top itself and it handles this 20 kilos or so of weight quite effortlessly). There’s very little wobble although I’m only 5’8” tall so the desk is set to 98cm at its highest point so not much chance to wobble anyway). The control panel is great. It has 4 memory settings and you only really need two per person so the desk is good to go for a couple of people before you need to worry about manual adjustment. It has a timer function so that after 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours after it’s been started, the control panel will vibrate, reminding you to change your position (obviously, you don’t need to use this feature). There’s a decent safety feature that stops the desk descending if it pushes against something (if it does, it’ll stop and rise automatically) handy if you forget that you wheeled a printer under your desk whilst it was in standing mode.And does it help with posture? Well, the jury’s out on that one but since I now spend between a third and half of my work time standing instead of sitting, I’d reckon that it should offset the damage I’ve been doing by sitting for extended periods of time. The Ikea standing desk did the same thing but after a while, that manual handle simply got in the way of changing the desk position - there’s simply no excuse with a motorised desk because it takes a few seconds to switch :)All in all, I’m very happy with the sitting / standing desk concept and equally so with the MAIDeSITe desk. I can’t imagine I’d go back to sitting all the time and for what it’s worth I can happily recommend the MAIDeSITe.Lastly, top marks to MAIDeSITe did a great job on the building and use instructions - very clear and difficult to make incorrectly. The packing was also really neat though quite a lot of foam (no polystyrene though) - which is to be expected considering that it's both heavy and bulky. Peace!

Superb quality and very easy to put together.

The media could not be loaded. £199 at purchase.I got this as a retrofit to my Ikea battle station setup (kitchen worktop on drawers).Easy to assemble (about an hour on my own).The cable management is excellent - came with some nice sticky back ties too.Controls are simple to use, the hidden child lock button is a nice touch too.I can't see any reason to get the 3 x motor version, the 2 x is flawless, lifts the desk with ease.Monitors wobble a little, but not too bad.

For anyone who may be wavering about whether to buy this twin-motor frame, I would say, don't be deterred by some of the lower-star reviews on here. For the money, desk frames don't come much better than this.I've had lots of experience with sit/stand desks over the years and have built several myself (as I did this time). So I will try and address one or two of the perceived problems mentioned by other reviewers.First things first; a couple of tips about assembling this particular desk frame. When it comes to screwing the frame to your desktop, I would advocate getting rid of the rubber grommets which are pre-fitted to the frame. I think the idea of them was to have a cushioning effect but they simply take up a couple of turns' worth of screw thread, adding nothing in terms of stability. Eventually, they would probably perish, so do yourself a favour and dispense with them. Just screw your frame down to the desk top normally. Also, when fitting the bolts into the pre-drilled threaded holes in the metal, be aware that some powder coating may have got into the screw threads on the desk during manufacture. This may occasionally make finding the start of the thread challenging and the first few turns a bit stiff. Just exercise care and be patient and it should be fine. Once you find the correct starting point, screwing the bolt in will clean out the thread. Just don't go at it so hard you cross-thread it.There has been some negative talk about the anti-collision mechanism going haywire. I haven't had this issue with this particular frame but let me say it is very common across all brands, regardless of how cheap or expensive. I've had numerous desks and many if not all of them have experienced this problem at some point. The first time I encountered this was with a premium brand but the cost of the unit made no difference. If your desk frame does start misbehaving, I would advocate introducing some form of "kill switch" into the setup. Unfortunately, those remote control "zapper" devices that you can plug into a wall socket won't work with this device. Not sure why. At any rate, if you can find a means of quickly switching off the power, then this will prevent any damage to stuff above or behind your desk.The other thing you can do is to set a maximum height. It may not stop this problem from occurring in the first place but it will prevent your desk from rising so high as to do damage to something above it, or to any monitors sitting on itI hope this information will help you decide.

I had been questioning a sit-stand desk for some time, eventually settled on this model as i wanted something with a higher weight capacity so it would have no trouble handling a 20mm solid oak desktop, Triple monitor setup along with my laptops (work + personal), KVM dock and associated cable management.Assembly was simple and the instructions easy to follow.I custom made a desktop as the ready made options were not suitable for the space i needed to fit the desk into.Having lived with the desk for a few months now, the only annoying aspect I’ve found is that its is far to easy to accidentally reset the stored memory height as the keypad is to sensitive.To do this you do not need to enter any menu or special mode to do so, simply: with the desk at the height you want to set, press the M key, then select which memory to set. (1-4).Unfortunately I’ve put the control pad on the left hand side, so more than a few times when I have reached to press “4” to put the desk to standing mode, I’ve caught the “M” key first and ended up resetting memory 4 to the current height!My suggestion for future versions would be to require the user to hold down the M key for 3-5 seconds when setting a memory value.