FAQ

We can delay delivery of orders by up to two months – enter your preferred delivery date in the ‘special instructions’ box in your shopping cart and our sales team will confirm with you.

All our shipping charges can be seen at https://aktivdesk.com/pages/shipping-policy and will auto-populate when the delivery country / postcode is entered in checkout. These charges are subsidized and normally below our costs.

We usually quote up to 10 working days for installation, email any specific requirements through to sales@aktivdesk.com and our installs team will do our best to accommodate these. Installations are dynamic and depend on workload, we’re unable to quote dates prior to order.

Yes, we have special offers to help tempt you to own an Aktiv desk, details of how to claim these can be found at https://aktivdesk.com/collections/monthly-offers

Yes, if you have an office fit-out project, we’d be happy to help with a very competitive quote.

We’re extremely thankful for our health worker’s amazing dedication and hard work in challenging times and are happy to support with a discount, please email a picture of your ID tag to sales@aktivdesk.com and we’ll advise your discount and how to can claim it.

Yes, we’ve teamed up with Klarna who offer spreading payments over three months at no extra cost to you, just select the Klarna option at checkout. Their quick credit assessment doesn’t leave a credit footprint on you, it’s a quick and simple, no-interest means of spreading the capital payment.

We don’t have a showroom, however, if your enquiry is for multiple units, we will be happy to visit your premises with a working sample to demonstrate just how good an Aktiv Desk really is. Free samples of the desktop finishes can be ordered at https://aktivdesk.com/ products/free-standing-desk-desktop-samples

The dimensions of each desk can be found to the right of the product picture on the desk product pages, at the top of the box titled ‘Choose your essentials’.

We cut the cable ports to your specifications, you can view the all the cable port details at https://aktivdesk.com/products/cable-ports-1

The desktops are 25 mm thick commercial grade melamine faced chipboard (MFC), manufactured in UK from FSC sustainable sourced wood and have a scratch-resistant anti-microbial melamine covering with various finish options: https://aktivdesk.com/ products/free-standing-desk-desktop-samples. We manufacture the desktops in the UK using our own CNC machines, so we can pre-drill starter-holes in the fixing pattern of the frame to make assembly easy and give a rock-solid fixing between the frame and desktop, helping to minimize any tendency to wobble.

Yes, the huge advantage of manufacturing in the UK means that we have the flexibility to make almost any size desktop to fit our frames, call us on 0330 133 4421 to discuss or ping an email through to us at sales@aktivdesk.com with dimensions of what you want and we’ll help to make it happen for you.

Both desks are among the most stable sit-stand desks available in the market today, with Aktiv 2 being the most stable of the two desks, and whilst they can be made to move a fraction at full height if you push to wobble it, this is not noticeable during normal use. We recommend the use of a sturdy monitor arm to help eliminate any unnecessary wobble at your monitor. It’s worth bearing in mind that cheaper imported standing desks often have massive stability problems due to poor design and cheap materials.

We provide an Allen key for all the frame bolts, and you will also need an electric screwdriver with a No.2 Posidrive bit for the frame to desktop screws.

It means the desk safety cut-out has operated for some reason and just needs a reset. First ensure nothing is under the desk that would prevent the desk reaching the lowest possible point and press the “down” button until this is reached. Then press the down button again for at least 10 seconds, until you hear an audible “click”. The reset is now complete, and the desk will function normally.