Factors To Consider When Choosing A Desk Grommet
Posted on: 20 July 2016
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If you work in an office, chances are good that you have a wide variety of cables for different pieces of technology that you need to use regularly. These cables might make doing work a pain due to the fact that they get tangled up with each other and make moving your electronic devices around difficult. One way to solve this problem is to purchase a desk grommet to hold your cables in place. Here are some factors that you should take into consideration before making a final decision about a desk grommet.
1. Is it going to fit all of your cables?
The first question that you have to ask is if the grommets that you are considering are able to fit all of your cables without issue. You don't want a grommet that is too loose because it could result in all of your cables falling out of it whenever they are unplugged, leaving the grommet relatively useless. You also don't want it to be too tight because you will put indentations in the rubber around your cables, resulting in damage.
To make sure that you are buying the right size grommet, take all of the cables that you need to bundle together and hold them in one hand. Have someone else take a tape measure and measure around the widest point of the bundle of cables that you are holding. Take that number and divide it by pi, or 3.14. This is the diameter of the grommet that you are going to need.
2. Are you looking to protect your cables or merely organize them?
If you are looking to protect your cables comprehensively, you can get pretty much any grommet because the point of a grommet is to keep your cables in one place and to allow them to flow over your desk without potentially being damaged by the sharp corners or jagged edges of your desk furniture. All grommets will do this.
If you are also looking to organize your cables into specific sections, you will need a flexible grommet, which has grooves shaped like pie pieces that allow you to bend your cables any way that you need them to go.
3. Do you need to avoid crawling under your desk to get to the power outlet?
If you want or need to avoid crawling under your desk to get to the power outlet, consider getting a customizable grommet that you can pay to add electrical outlets to.
For more information, talk to a company that specializes in desk grommets.