Glossary
Storage Basics
- Bridging storage
- Business storage
- Commercial storage
- Container unit
- Document storage
- Drive-up unit
- Ground-floor unit
- Indoor unit
- Long-term storage
- Outdoor unit
- Overflow storage
- Personal storage
- Removals storage
- Seasonal storage
- Self storage
- Short-term storage
- Storage facility
- Storage locker
- Storage unit
- Student storage
- Upper-floor unit (mezzanine)
- Walk-in unit
Contracts & Terms
- Admin fee
- Alternate contact
- Assignment
- Billing cycle
- Business rates
- Change to terms or fees
- Continuous payment authority
- Cooling-off period
- Credit check
- Deposit
- Direct Debit
- Direct Debit Guarantee
- Introductory offer
- Late payment fee
- Licence to occupy
- Lien
- Minimum stay
- Move-out inspection
- Notice period
- Payment in advance
- Price review
- Pro-rata billing
- Proof of address
- Proof of identity
- Reservation fee
- Rolling contract
- Storage agreement
- Sublet
- Unfair contract terms
- VAT invoice
Sizes & Packing
- 10ft container
- 20ft container
- 40ft container
- Acid-free tissue paper
- Archive box
- Book box
- Bubble wrap
- Ceiling height
- Cubic feet
- Double-wall box
- Fragile tape
- Goods lift
- Loading bay
- Mattress bag
- Packing paper
- Packing tape
- Removal blanket
- Sack truck
- Single-wall box
- Sofa cover
- Square feet
- Square metres
- Stretch wrap
- Tea chest
- Trolley
- Unit dimensions
- Wardrobe box
Moving & Life Events
- Box room
- Bridging loan
- Chain-free
- Completion
- Downsizing
- Exchange of contracts
- Executor
- Furniture fire labels
- Gazumping
- Gazundering
- Grant of probate
- Home staging
- House clearance
- Letters of administration
- Luton van load
- Packing service
- Part-load removal
- Probate
- Property chain
- Removals company
- Snagging
- SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification)
- Transit van load
- Void period
Business & Records
- Archive storage
- Certificate of destruction
- Confidential waste
- Data protection (UK GDPR)
- Euro pallet
- Flammable liquids
- Fulfilment
- Hazardous goods
- Lithium-ion batteries
- Pallet truck
- Pick and pack
- Prohibited items
- Records retention
- Retention schedule
- Small business rate relief
- Standard UK pallet
- Stock rotation
- Stock storage
- Tail-lift
- Third-party logistics (3PL)
- Watt-hour (Wh) rating
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