Conference Room Tables

Conference room tables come in many different sizes and shapes.   It is important to make sure you can get it to your conference room as well!

Standard conference room tables come in sizes starting at 6′, and go in 2′ increments.  You can in theory get a table as long as you want. Generally speaking any table that is over 8′ long, you will want it to be a 2 piece table so that it is easier to move.  As you get larger than 16′, you will need to have 3 or more pieces for the table.   Many elevators are not big enough to hold conference room tables longer than 8 feet, and sometimes not even an 8′ table will fit.    Stairwells have a lot of turns, and as the table gets larger you may not be able to make the turn with conference table when it is longer than 8′ feet.

Now there is an old folk tale that is talked about in the industry about conference tables.

Once upon a time there was a company that was on the top floor of a sky scraper in New York.  The CEO of this  company wanted a big,  once piece conference table for his board room.  Legend has it the table was about twenty five feet long.  Of course every time this tale is told the table gets longer.   In order to get this table to the board room, the glass of the conference room window had to be removed and a crane was used to get the table to the conference room through that window.  The CEO got his conference table for his board room and everyone lived happily ever after.

So be advise that when it comes to conference tables, size does matter.  Be sure before you buy a conference room table that you have figured out a way to get your table into your space.

Is your meeting space a trip?

Have a safe trip, see u next fall..

If you have a conference room that has cords running across the floor to the table from the wall, then this is for you.

Not only do the cords laying across your floor look bad, but they are a hazard to your employees and guests.  If you have clients coming to your meeting space nothing says we are a sloppy company like a disheveled meeting space.

Here are some common, expensive ways to fix this.  And one smart, cost effective way.

First, you need to interview contractors to drill a hole in the concrete floor underneath your conference table or location where you need electrical & data.  If you are lucky enough to be on the 2nd floor or above and you can talk the tenant below you and the building management to let you run electrical and data through the ceiling to your hole, that would be the next step.  If this stroke of luck is not in your cards, then you will need to either “floor trench in the concrete from that hole in the center to the wall to get connected, or you will need to run an electrical & data film under the carpet.  Either way you, these are costly solutions.  Sure you could also run wire mold, but then  you might as well duct tape the wires to the floor.  You could also install a power pole from the table to the ceiling but c’mon really?  The other way, and yes I am laughing, is to install a raised floor, or also known as a computer floor.    Yes they still make those.   (The also still make raised platform shoes as well.)

Raised Floor

Raised Platform Shoes

Ok, here is the smart, cost effective way.

Install a power track, that goes under the carpet, it is raised gradually and is less than an inch high.  Depending on your existing carpet, you can cut it and stick this power track underneath.  You run this from the wall to the center of  your conference table, and then we can have a professional installer drill a hole in your conference table, add a power/data module in that freshly cut hole.  An electrician will hook up the electrical and  then run the data and you have a meeting space that will make you proud.

Easy enough?  www.thinkspaces.com can help you with the whole project.  You can also use this for workstations, or any other application where you need to get electrical or data to the a location in the center of a room.