Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Space-saver folding desk
Working from home is becoming more common for many people. Feeling bad for claiming the dinner table as my working desk, I have recently designed and built myself a foldable desk and mounted it on the wall at the corner of my living room. I mean it is working wonderfully for me as a flat dweller. Not sure if anyone else would like one. Please do let me know if you want one, so I can make one for you at an agreeable price. The material cost, bear in mind that I ordered the components back in March, was £165, including the lighting and power socket. If you are a professional carpenter and see business opportunity in this, I would also like to have a chat - how the design can be improved and how we can make it more affordable. Here is a link to a video I made for it - https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cfy1JDDlgs4/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Permalink Reply by Gideon Henry on
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Hello there. I am curious about this product . Is there enough support for the opened plinth as the accumulated weight for laptops books etc will need to be considered. Is the unit completely collapsible for those tenants who may move every other year. Are there built in recesses for stationary pens whilst the table is in use. Inkwell hole for pens? Is the lighting fitting sufficiently strong to illuminate the workspace area. I will be looking for a compact workdesk that can be folded away neatly. An intriguing product.
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Permalink Reply by Yat on
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Gideon, Thanks for your comments and questions. Yes, lots can be improved to incorporate the features you mentioned. I will definitely looking into possibilities to incorporate those thing. Good question about the structural strength - I haven't quite got to the bottom of it so I want some advice from the pros. The pneumatic springs' steel ball joints certainly failed during my first trial, so I had to add small legs to sit on a cabinet which I built into the wall many years ago. It is a temporary solution. Recently I come across an American commercial product of the same nature - it has a deeper frame and when the table top flaps open, it overlaps the bottom of the frame and use that compression to take the weight. They claim that a man can sit on it no problem. It is priced for £500 a piece though.
If a rental tenant wants to screw one of these on the wall, I suppose agreement must be had with the landlord prior to the installation. My one is screwed to the wall too, some I can easily take it off and fill in the holes and repaint the wall. If I want to commercialise it, I don't know if there would be lots of H&S tests required to make sure what wall type would be suitable for installation and how deep the holes need be drilled. If it was a stud wall behind, the holes would be better drilled through the studs.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Smeeton on
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Hi Yat. This is a good idea. On the issue of holes in walls I wondered if a slighter narrower version could be used that incorporates soft ended knobs which expand along a screw-like thread to wedge in between the walls of an alcove. Thay should avoid the need to make holes in the walls. I probably haven't explained that well but if you have a look at some baby stair gates you will see what I mean.
Good luck .
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