Pot Riser 200mm Across in Powder Coated Steel

A low riser that lifts a pot off the floor and lets air under it, which is what stops a floor marking under a plant.

Plants are heavier than people expect and wetter than furniture likes. A 400mm pot of wet compost is about 25 kilograms, and a stand that is fine for a sculpture will eventually rack under it. Everything in this part of the range is rated wet rather than dry, and everything that a pot sits directly on is either sealed or supplied with a tray, because the commonest way to ruin a good stand is to water the plant on it.

Specification

• Dimensions: see the product name for the diameter
• Display surface: sealed top surface with a lip
• Construction: welded steel or solid timber with a sealed rebate
• Finish: 2mm folded steel, welded and ground before coating so no seam shows, in a fine texture powder coat
• Load rating: 40kg
• Levelling: felt pads or braked castors
• Security: not applicable
• Delivery: one small carton, assembled
• Weight: approximately 1.2 kilograms
• Sealed: the surface and the joints, which is what a drip tray usually is not
• Felt pads fitted, spares supplied
• Takes a pot up to 350mm
• Sold singly unless the name says otherwise

What you get

• One pot riser 200mm across
• Felt pads and a spare set
• A care note

Setting it up

Arrives assembled and blanket wrapped. Stand it where you want it, level it on the feet, and take the wrapping back to the van, which the delivery crew will do.

Specifying it

Match the stand to the pot and not to the plant. A stand should be a little narrower than the pot so the pot reads as the object, and it needs to carry the weight of the compost wet rather than dry, which is roughly double. Height is worth thinking about for the plant rather than for the room: most house plants want to be up in the light rather than down at ankle level, and a plant on a 700mm stand next to a window will outgrow the same plant on the floor beside it inside a season.