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Why build a storage company in a market town instead of a city? When we first started planning Wigwam, the obvious move would have been to find a big industrial unit off a city ring road. Cities have density. Cities have footfall. Cities are where the self-storage industry told you to go if you wanted […]
A whole student life to pack up, and four days to do it in? You are standing in a student bedroom that somehow contains an entire life. There is a guitar against one wall, a mattress topper that has seen better days, a bicycle leaning against the wardrobe, and approximately forty cardboard boxes that your […]
New town, new house, and three vanloads that don’t have a home yet? Most families who have moved house will tell you the same thing: moving day is just the beginning of it. You get the van loaded, you hand over the keys, and then reality sets in. The new house is not quite the […]
How did five old Tewkesbury houses come through renovation unscathed? The Wigwam Tewkesbury team has supported more than 50 period-property renovations since 2022. Last reviewed: June 2026 | 14 min read | For Tewkesbury and Cotswold period-property owners planning a renovation Tewkesbury has more Georgian and medieval buildings per street than most market towns of […]
Posting order in, dates set by someone else — how do you store around that? A posting order lands and the timeline shifts immediately. The quarter needs to be cleared, furniture needs somewhere to go, and the dates were set by the chain of command, not by you. If the serving member is already on […]
Leave early — do you get money back for the days you didn’t use? Most people come to us having already braced themselves for bad news. They have been reading about self storage refunds online and the answers they found were written for the American market, where “all rental transactions are final” is standard. Here […]
The familiar names all pointed everywhere but Shipston — why? You searched. The names you recognised were not there. Coventry, Oxford, Birmingham – the results pointed everywhere except here. It is a strange feeling, looking for something ordinary and finding a gap. Self storage is not exactly a rare commodity in the UK. There are […]
Not the loft, not the skip — so where do the keepsakes actually go? There is a particular kind of box that nobody can open and nobody can throw away. It sits at the back of the loft, or on the landing, or pushed under a spare bed. Inside are things that belong to someone […]
Landing in Reading before the new place is quite ready for you? Most people get the big things right when they move. They book the removal van. They notify the utilities. They change the address. What catches them out is the gap, the few weeks where you have left the old place but the new […]
Customer Reviews
Lovely clean place and the app was faultless.
Highly recommended.
Once contract in place very easy app use to access site and unit, very clear easy to follow instructions. Very happy and would definitely recommend
Very easy access with parking right outside the door.
Plenty of trolleys, so no need for muscles ! It maybe a little more expensive than some others, BUT the cleanliness & ease of use perfect.
The staff are VERY patient, explaining how each unit works.
It is great to know the manned office hours & how to make contact if not.
Plenty of accessible hours too.
Ps.... they do like a biscuit or 2 in the office I hear !
Units were good and secure.
only critisms - lights turned off automatically too quickly and no onsite toilet.