Uplift Desk - V2-Commercial L-Shaped Standing Desk Frame

I have had an uplift since the pandemic days. Couldn't be happier. I have their commercial L shaped.

I've been using an Uplift V2 commercial C-frame L shaped desk base for 3 years and love it. I custom made my own topper with some elbow grease and scrap I had laying around to lower the overall cost, but it holds up well. I can only speak to what I have, but their other frames came highly recommended at the time.

So I have been waiting to do this review on my experience making my own standing desk. This review will cover the materials, the build process, challenges, and review of some notable accessories. I apologize for not having more pictures, but my office is literal mess right now and I was in rush to get out after finishing the assembly. I started this project shortly after graduating college and slowly purchasing the miscellaneous components to make my dream workstation. I tried my best to keep the complete build under $3,500 which I believe I achieved. However, many hours of work went into getting the tops finished and properly aligned to frame. My build list is as follows: • Uplift L-Shape Commercial V2 Frame • (2) 96”x25” Acacia Butcher Block from Lowes • iMovr EMMA Electric Monitor Arms • (2) HumanScale CPU600 Holder • Uplift Attachable Power-strip • Doug Mockett & Company Wireless Phone Charger • Uplift Leather Writing Pad • Uplift Sliding Flex Light (May be relocated) • Brass thread inserts (HomeDepot) The desk finish dimensions are 96”x25” on the main top and 72”x25” on the return. Trying to find a finished desk of this size with 1.5” acacia tops was out of my budget. I searched for 96”x30” acacia tops initially, however, the additional depth was out of my budget. Luckily, Lowe’s seems to be one of the best sellers for cheap unfinished butcher block tops. Each top coated me appropriately $350 and were shipped to my door for additional $75. This may seem expensive to some, but I searched for weeks trying to find other options. Lowe’s was by the lowest price point for large butcher block tops under $1000. See link below. The tops were finished with Poly X Osmo oil purchased from Amazon. To me, Poly X is very easy to work with as long as you apply very thin coats. Thin oil finishes go a long way. However, during the finishing process, I did I apply too thick or a coat resulting in bubbles and bumps across the top. A light sand and another layer thin layer of Poly X rectified the bubbles and bumps. Once the tops were finished, I began pre drilling pilot holes in each top for thread inserts. I wanted to have thread inserts just in case I have to disassemble the desk in the future. However, I do not recommend the generic brass inserts from Home Depot. I had several of the thread inserts shear when screwing into the pilot holes (yes the holes were big enough). Also, several of the inserts that I did mange to get inserted into the tops dislodged during final assembly. See link below so you can avoid buying these certain inserts. Once the desk tops were finished, I assembled the Uplift frame and married the tops to the frame. I will give Uplift a 10 out of 10 on their instructions and ease of assembly. They plenty of extra fasteners and other accessories to ensure you have everything you need to finish a custom build. See link below for the frame. Finally, the desk was moved to my office and I began attaching my various accessories. The most notable purchase I made was the electric monitor arms or better known as the EMMA by iMovr. Some people may question why have a standing desk and spend more money on raising arms. Well I am very tall person and I noticed that when standing at coworkers standing desk with regular monitor arms, I was looking downward at the monitors. I realized then I wanted a more upright posture looking forward than rather downward. With that said, the EMMA allows me to not to strain my neck and more easily raise all my monitors to save position when I need them higher when my desk is in the standing position. So far I have no complaints with the system. It is quite over engineered in my opinion (I am an Engineer Intern and I love this, no judgement lol) with a what I believe is a custom aluminum extrusion main beam supporting the die casted swivel mounts for the monitors. I have no doubts that the system can lift the largest and heaviest monitors. I will say I had a delay in shipping but iMovr kept me informed almost on the daily why my order had not shipped. iMovr, like any other company, was dealing with some supply chain issues but they were very helpful in keeping me up to date and giving me an adjusted it accurate shipping timeline. I highly recommend iMovr as company. I know there has been some previous issues with the company, but I believe they are under new leadership and their customer service is quite unmatched. If you are interested in the system I have provided a link below. Probably second favorite accessory is the HumanScale CPU mounts. I needed two mounts for my PC and battery backup. Very easy to mount and I like the flexibility of properly fitting the mount to the PC case. I will say I did not buy this “new” but open box for about half the price from a random eBay seller. All in all, I love my build and it was a fun challenge. If you have any questions please feel free to ask! TLDR: I built a standing desk using an Uplift Frame and iMovr Electric Monitor Arms and just wanted to share my experience with a community of people who would appreciate this build. Link list: Uplift Frame: https://www.upliftdesk.com/uplift-v2-l-shaped-standing-desk-frame/?29401=5179&29402=17671&29403=17832&29404=11390&43034=21078&29408=8707 iMovr EMMA https://www.imovr.com/products/emma-electric-triple-monitor-arm Acacia Butcher Block Tops https://www.lowes.com/pd/allen-roth-96-in-x-25-in-x-1-5-in-Natural-Straight-Butcher-Block-Acacia-Countertop/5013817645#no_universal_links

Uplift is a legit brand. I have their L-shaped standing desk. I'd definitely recommend it.

I’ve got an L shape Uplift desk frame with stained butcher block tops. I think it was $1200 for the frame and other Uplift accessories, and $200 for the butcher blocks $400 for that is a joke or a scam

Some of the L-shape desks like Vari and Uplift have drawers and other storage accessories that mount to the underside. You can also get some file cabinets that match the desk frame color from these same manufacturers and place them under the desk so they work as desk storage. Nothing says a file cabinet has to have files in it, they can be just used as more drawers. I have a desk and a file cabinet from the same company so they match nicely.

I’m 6’3” and have an Uplift L-Shape on V2 frame that I set at 30” sitting, but can go down to 25.2”. My standing is set to 47” but can go to 48.8”. It wasn’t inexpensive but it’s been worth every penny.

Just upgraded from a cheap Amazon desk to the Uplift V2 Commercial and the difference is shocking. The cheap one would shake when I typed and the motor died after 14 months. The Uplift is absolutely rock solid and the 15 year warranty gives peace of mind. Yes it's expensive but buy once cry once. Get the memory pad not the basic switch.

No experience with Deskhaus, but my wife has an Uplift v2 Commercial and I just got the new V3 so I can speak to the differences. The v3 is definitely an improvement over the v2 in terms of the build experience, much more comes pre-assembled and it took me about half the time of the v2 to put it together. The included cable management channel is also much better with the v3 - it's sturdier, has more room, and making adjustments is much easier than the "custom-fit" v2 solution. Granted this part does not matter if you go with a 3rd party cable management option. The only issue I had was on the desktop for the v3, the predrilled holes to install the brackets for the cable channel were about a half inch too close together and I had to drill a new hole on that side to allow the channel to hang correctly. A little annoying, but did not take much extra time or effort. The rest of the predrilled holes in both desktops were positioned perfectly and assembly was pretty simple for each. Again, more steps on v2 both because less was preassembled, plus the extra crossbar to install on the commercial version. Outside of build experience I haven't noticed any significant differences in stability or function between the two versions. They're good quality desks, not much more to say.

Uplift - can program different heights, honestly sometimes i just use it by going up or down an inch or two, and it's a beautiful desk. Got the commercial one so i could go down really low and rest my feet on the ground.

Uplift v2 - yep, I'm five feet nothing so the height adjustability is great for me.