The prospect and thrill of owning real fur can sometimes get in the way of the practical problems that storing fur entails. If you are planning on buying a fur garment, you will need to plan ahead and not make its long term storage an afterthought. Perhaps more than any other clothing fabric, fur is […more]
It’s been a strange summer weather-wise – many of us have been absolutely baked in the heat wave, whilst we are also being told it has been one of the wettest summers since records began! Just our luck that when summer rolls around, many of us have end up craving to stay in either to stay cool […more]
When you are trying to turn over a profitable business, the last thing you want to be dealing with is the extra time and expensive labour of an office move. However, as business expands or changes shape, or leases expire and landlords put the rent up, it is something you will inevitably have to face […more]
Decluttering is one of those tasks that we love to put off until the last minute – there’s always something more pressing, less tiring or simply more entertaining than just getting on with throwing out or selling things that are getting in the way that you no longer need. You may find once a year […more]
One of the key features of a modern self storage outlet is the flexibility of the service being offered. We aren’t talking about twisting the arm of the self storage facility near you (there should be no flexibility about when it’s time to pay up!), but rather that storage needn’t just be the place to […more]
Valuables can come in all sorts of forms – from the expensive electrical goods that are part and parcel of modern live, to the data that we hold on hard drives, through to the old family heirlooms. All retain personal and financial value to varying degrees, and we are naturally very careful when these objects […more]
We all seem to crave space, but we often don’t know when to stop accumulating things either. If you have enjoyed the luxury of moving into a larger home or office recently, you had better enjoy that moment of having some space to move around in while it lasts, because sadly it won’t last as long […more]
The self storage industry is really building up momentum in some parts of the world with stores popping up everywhere, not just in your usual retail park areas and beside motorways, but even in built-up urban areas as pretty much any abandoned large building is snapped up and converted into storage units. It’s certainly a […more]
The self storage industry took a while to make an impact in the United Kingdom, but now that it has, it is blossoming at quite a considerable rate. Any resident of this country could tell you why it has proven such a success with a very succinct explanation – the amount of space for the […more]
Quite a while ago we took a look at alternatives to self storage that may work under different circumstances. One of the areas we did not touch upon was the somewhat larger scene of lock-up garages. This is an incentive, seen frequently in the UK, where free standing blocks of garages purpose-built for cars are […more]