With self storage, you rent your own unit, you control who can get in, and you can visit whenever you like, normally from 6am to 10pm, seven days a week. With removals storage, a removal firm packs your belongings, keeps them in its own warehouse and delivers them when you’re ready, so you usually see them again only by arrangement with the firm.
Self storage: your space, on your terms
Because the unit is yours, you can pop in to fetch the winter coats, drop off another load or check on something whenever it suits you. That flexibility helps most when plans change: if completion slips by a few weeks, nothing needs rearranging, and your things are there when you need them.
You also decide who else can get in. You can share access with a family member, friend or colleague, for a set time or with no end date.
Moving in is easy. Every site has free parking while you unload and free trolleys to use. If you’d like help with the lifting, we can recommend local removal and man-and-van firms. When a crew is loading your unit, just make sure you, or someone you’ve shared access with, is there to let them in.
Removals storage: hands-off
Removals storage suits you if you won’t need anything until your new home is ready and you’d rather one firm did all the packing, lifting and delivery. If you think you might want something back before then, ask the firm how visits work and whether they cost extra.
Keeping your belongings covered
Everything stored with us needs contents cover, and it’s simple to arrange. Our contents protection is designed for storage, and because it’s separate from your home insurance, a claim on it won’t affect your home insurance no-claims. If you’d rather use your own policy, you can: take our cover when you move in, show us proof of your own cover within 14 days, and we’ll refund our charge in full.
With removals storage, ask the firm what its cover includes and how much it would pay.
Which suits you?
Choose self storage if your dates might move, you’ll want things during the gap, or you’re storing for a business and need regular access. Choose removals storage if your dates are fixed and you’d like someone else to do everything. You can also have the best of both: a removal firm can move your things into your own unit with us.
To compare, get a price online or call us on 0800 2545585.
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