welcome to my unboxing and first look at the vert desk now this is the first time
I've ever looked at a desk on this show and uh honestly the the pitch like here
lus do you want to check this out was kind of like um I guess so until I did a
little bit more looking into it so it would appear that this is becoming
pretty well established that's sitting too much aside from the general
inactivity associated with sitting can actually be a direct may have a direct
correlation to health problems including obesity cardiovascular disease um even
for people who are otherwise sort of
similar test cases things like bus drivers so standing trolley operators
were less likely to have heart attacks than sitting bus drivers for example
which um to me was sort of bizarre but I
guess I'm not going to be the one to to
knock it before I try it so the vert desk is an electric automatically uh
well not automatically you have to press a button but an electric adjustable desk
that goes from comfortable sitting height to comfortable standing height in
about 25 seconds so the idea it it holds
up to 200 lb which means all of your gear that you'd normally have on your
desk will comfortably fit on them you could even sit on it if you don't have
the aforementioned obesity problem although I wouldn't sit on it and put a
heavy computer on it and all that kind of stuff and the idea is that instead of
sitting all day or instead of getting a standing desk and having to stand all
day you can have some kind of a compromise between the two that will
make you more comfortable overall so it's available in a variety of different
options this is the black base I believe the black base is the only base but you
can get a couple of different tops for it so we are going to be going through
the process of assembling the vert desk which came in three boxes for me over
the next little bit here very exciting
so it looks like our table did arrive in one piece well okay like as one piece as
you'd expect a table that you have to assemble to arrive so uh there's
cardboard packing around the outside side for whatever reason this particular
box was labeled do not lay flat and I can't imagine any reason why a tabletop
couldn't be laid flat but um there you go there's pre-tapped holes on this side
the bottom side where apparently we're going to be screwing things into at some
point so you can see they're here here here here or not pre-tapped but pre-
trilled so just starter holes and then I want to show you guys all the other
things that are included so we've got feet for the bottoms of these uh height
of adjustable feet we've got whatever this
is some screws bag of screws little
plastic channel for something okay uh
two motor looking pieces one of which has uh two plugs one of which looks like
it's for the remote motor so I'm guessing this goes on one side this goes
on the other side and then the other one goes to what appears to be a control pod
where you can go up and down using this and it plugs into the uh the main
control box right there all right so then we've got two uh stands so two sets
of two ft with uh support pillars that adjust up and down and then we have the
tabletop itself which you can get it without the tabletop I think you save
100 bucks or something like that if you want to put your own tabletop on it and finally we've got four pieces of metal
that presumably do something we
also have an instruction booklet which we are definitely going to need
otherwise we would be doomed read all the instructions prior to blah blah blah
etc etc etc so here we go
guys all right so the first step is to take the left leg which you can tell
because of where the threaded holes are located and the back of the device is
going to be the shorter leg not the longer one and you take this small motor
assembly and put two of the machine screws which look like this if you guys
want to have a look at that in with the included Allen key so
the only thing you really need to provide from for your yourself to
assemble the vert desk is your own Phillips head screwdriver because they
provide the Allen keys that you need so we're going to put in two of those
secure just like that so the motor head faces towards the short leg and then the
other thing we need is this hex Rod here
which is going to go through the motor assembly into oh hold on maybe we want
the longer piece ha into the table
itself yeah there it goes
so to diagnose uh the hex Rod not going
all the way into the left leg support
we're actually hooking up we're jumping ahead of ourselves a little bit in the
vert desk assembly operation so we're hooking the uh the motor up to the
control unit and
uh what I want to do is is turn it a
little bit oops oh that
com yeah I thought it I thought it uh wasn't working cuz it was so quiet
listen that you can't even hear it so we're just going to try and rotate it to
find the right spot and I need that uh I
need that Allen key back there okay it seems to be aligned now so you can see
pressing on it is actually moving the vert desk now so I'm going to go ahead
and stab it some more and now I think we
are actually correctly inserted
so we're going to carry on
now so the next step is to put the the
hex Rod through the other table now what I realized is that when we hooked this
one up in order to rotate it we didn't have to do that all you have to do is
pull on it and it will rotate the uh the inside piece no problem however
um once you've got the hex rod in there it's uh hooked up to this motor so they
so they don't move anymore now they're completely stuck aligned so the next
thing now is to go ahead and
screw the here we
go put screws in and attach it to the
workspace uh top itself now you can tell from where the pilot holes are that the
ones here right here and about here somewhere that are aligned for these
These are the back of the desk because there's more leg room towards the front
of the desk where you're less likely to hit this Rod the four long wood screws go in now
so one two
three four without fully tightening them and I cannot emphasize enough the
importance of getting these lined upright so that they're the same height
away from the hole on either side because otherwise as far as I can tell
your table will be permanently
crooked the control switch has special screws so these are the only screws for
the control switch they're kind of about the length of the width of your finger
and you can mount it either on the right side or on the left side it's totally up
to you so I think being right-handed I will go for the right side of the table
so you just align that with the pilot holes and screw those
in then you run the cable on the inside
of the control rod of the hex Rod right there so this next piece is the cover
for the hex Rod so you can put it on either way and depending on which way
you put your switch you're going to uh take these notches here and run it
Through The Notches there we go so that there's some cable management going on
and so that nothing's going to interfere with the hex Rod itself so this is where
I guess a drill might be kind of nice because this is going to take me a
little while here so I'm going to put about eight of these screws in in order
to attach this
firmly this is one of those things where you can never quite decide is it faster
to just Soldier through it or is it
faster to uh go get the drill and do it
that way so the rod cover here we fully
tightened as we went but this next one we're not going to fully tighten as we
go it takes three wood screws see there's uh guide holes that are in here
so three wood screws that go through it and we're yeah
we're not fully tightening any of this stuff so I do have my drill now so I'm
just starting that for the sake of the camera and then we take These Guys these
like honking guys like this and these go into the ends actually maybe it'd be
better to do this end so you guys can see what I'm doing so it goes into the
end here and then screws into the end of
this uh I guess they call it a support tube but it's more of a square so I
don't know how exactly that works and that screws in like that so this gives
some rigidity to the table itself
here okay so we slide this plate and there's a particular orientation for it
there's a hole here so that goes towards the front and then what we do is we put
the screwdriver through that hole with this one screw that came inside that box
and we we drop it and we put that into this hole right here that's what
actually keeps the mounting plate in place and keeps it from just completely
falling away from from this guy besides just its natural animall
like sex appeal ah there we go now that won't go
anywhere then we take this guy and we mount it somewhere presumably here
presumably this way so that this actually reaches you have the option to
go either way if you want we'll figure this
out and we're tightening these guys all the way now they want you to screw this
thing in but it's just like a wire management thing for bringing this wire
over to the control box um it comes with double-sided tape I'm inclined to sort
of give it a shot with the double-sided tape and see if it holds out but if it
really doesn't last then I guess you could always uh screw it on it's not
Mission critical by any stretch of the imagination so then we can plug this in ah there we
go they only align they only go in one way they're keyed see there's a little
thing here that uh only goes in one way so there you go and we
can ah push those in there not that I'd
recommend like shacking it like that uh next thing so now there's only one one
wire that actually goes into the wall so all of our other wires are are managed
at this point so now we have to install our cross support brace which is g to
sort of slide on somehow supposedly so
we'll need a moment for that where' that oh where' that other Allen ke
go the cross brace isn't too hard because these uh these legs do rotate
out so you rotate them out then you bring the cross brace in then you rotate
them in and it's six Allen keys at the
back in order to actually secure it in
place once you align them with the hole of course that won work better
so this piece we fully tighten as we go now they're saying the next piece to
fully tighten are these uh big guys that are in the side here so we're just going
to give those the old right okay from
either side and then that leaves us with the last things to fully tighten being
the four screws that hold these pieces to the desk itself and I understand now
why they ask you not to fully tighten them earlier in the process because
there's a lot of Shifting and settling and adjustment that goes on while you're
attaching pieces like this that are meant to to guide it and make sure that
everything is aligned so we're just going to give it a quick tighten down
here one two three four and then they
are because you guys are all ergonomically conscious um they make
sure to tell you hey make sure you have an assistant help you flip the desk over
into its correct position right side up
so that you don't you know throw cuz for all the good it's going to do you to uh
prevent cardiovascular disease if you you know break your back moving your
desk around then you're not going to be happy about that either so we've got leveler feet that you can just screw
into the bottom that kind of go like this there we go we've seen those on
desks before and we are pretty much done so let's do a bit of a demo here with
the vert desk completely assembled and plugged into the wall
really so here's what someone like me might use a desk for like this so here
I'll show you guys the full the full range of the height adjustment is extremely quiet so you can sit very
comfortably at it here's my chair stands all right and then just pressing the
button here you can raise it up to a comfortable height where you could use
it standing up so I might use it for things like product showcases and demos
and unboxings where some things are small and I'm going to want to have them
right up here where I can show them to you wow this thing goes really high
I guess I'm short so I'm only 5'6 so
it's a it's a little high for me at its very highest uh height but we you know
if you were actually a reasonable height then of course you need to be able to
use it as well but I guess that's the point of ergonomic Furniture isn't it so
german-made motor uh very solid feeling actually even at its full height you can
see I'm I'm heaving on it a little bit here I've got this probably weighs a
good sort of 35 40 lb um and it's not
even sitting actually here it's not even sitting on on the concrete here so the
uh the feet aren't fully stabilized as well but there you go that's the vert
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other computer videos and apparently desks now we do desks now and that gives
you some idea of the speed of the height adjustment as well so it's about 1 inch
per second according to their specifications