Desk horizontal

Dec 18, 2005 6 Replies

Hi,



I'm building a desk by fixing a sheet of laminated MDF to a wall along a



2x2" strip that runs the length of the back and one side of the desk, with aluminium tube legs as support at the front.

The floor of the room (1st floor, timber boards on joists, 100 years old, just hardboarded and shortly to be carpeted) has an incline of up to



2cms/metre along the direction of the length of the desk. The desk itself will be quite long (2.5m at the back and 2m at the front - it's a trapezoid shape a bit like this
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'm just about to mount the 2x2" to the wall and was wondering whether horizontal with gravity or horizontal with the floor was best.

On the one hand, horizontal with gravity will look better below the rows of shelves I've fixed to the wall above desk height, on the other I suspect that horizontal with the floor will be more comfortable to sit in front of - after all, my chair and I will be horizontal with the floor. Computer keyboards will be placed on the desk and so I feel having one side of my body lower than the other is not good posture. But horizontal with the floor will look pretty awful over 2.5 metres, just below a shelf of equal length mounted horizontal with gravity.



Short of pulling up the floorboards and relevelling the floor (carpet fitters arrive on Tuesday), what would you do?



Thanks.


There's only type of horizontal! *Parallel* with a sloping floor is *not* horizontal!

Make it horizontal (with a spirit level) or it will look 'orrible - especially with shelves above it. If the sloping floor is a problem, make yourself a wedge-shaped platform for your chair to rest on.

Always put it up real horizontal, at least things won't roll off it.

mrcheerful

Do you really want a desk thats completetly pi**ed ?

No didn't think so, so fix it level of course

-- Nick H

"Set Square" wrote

FWIW I agree, rolling pens etc would irritate me no end

Regards Jeff

Square, plumb & level - only option.

2cm per metre - you won't notice that whilst sitting at the table.

Dave

Build the desk level (i.e. real - not parallel to the floor) and see what it is like to sit at.

If it does not feel right, then you know what to do! (failing that a plinth for the chair).

Get busy on Monday ;-)

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