Was dead set on a standing desk frame but cheap wood changed my mind

I was about to drop $400 on a motorized frame from Uplift until I found a solid core door slab at Habitat for Humanity for $15. Laid it across two cheap sawhorses and a stack of cinder blocks I had in the backyard. Honestly works great for my 32 inch monitor and I spent the leftover cash on a decent chair instead. Has anyone else repurposed a door into a desk and regretted it later?

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john_singh18d ago

Have you run into any issue with the slab being too thick for your monitor arm clamp? The solid core doors are usually around 1.75 inches thick and a lot of the cheaper monitor arms won't bite deep enough on the C-clamp to stay secure. I tried a similar setup with a hollow core door once and it started bowing after about six months with a 27 inch monitor and a laptop on it. That solid core slab might hold up better but I would check the clamp depth before you get too comfortable. The weight is also something to watch if those sawhorses are the plastic folding kind.

kevinc8418d agoOG Member

Oh man that's a really good point about the clamp depth. I've seen so many people buy cheap arms off Amazon and then realize the C-clamp barely grabs the edge. Did you end up swapping to a specific brand that actually fit your solid core door or did you just scrap the whole idea? I'm curious if the grommet mount route would work better for those thicker slabs since you can drill right through the door instead of fighting the clamp.