Monthly storage costs for one bed flat contents

chickmug

Help would be good as per the heading. I am needing this advice for one of my family.

Thanks

mlz1413

Depends on how much stuff they have! Are they a hoarder or a minminalist?

My friend rented a garage when she moved as it was the cheapest option but it turned out the garage leaked and mice had got into a lot of the stuff as it ended up being in storage a year rather than a month, so it wasn't the cheap option in the end.

There are loads of storage co's so I'd get your relative to work out how big the flat is in sq meters and then decide how much space they need to get everything into and then ring around for quotes in your area. Remember the costs of getting it there to, maybe van hire?

chickmug

Its minimalist.

Sofa and easy chair, two cofee tables, PC table and chair, washer/dryer, fridge, freezer, double bed, two single wardrobes, two bedside cupboards, two chests of drawers, a few garden tools and whatever other bits in boxes.

not_loaded

I have a storage room called a ‘75 feet’. For some reason storage companies seem to talk in floor space not volume. The room is 8.2ft x 9.1ft making just under 75sqft. It’s 8ft high nominally, so that makes 597cuft.

1 cu mtr = 35.3147 cu ft, so it’s around 17 cu mtr if that helps.

The items you’ve described sound like they’d easily fit in one room like that. You have to fill it logically of course, eg: put an empty wardrobe in and then try to fill it with smaller items.

I’m paying just over £100 monthly for that, which I consider expensive, but it’s not worth moving it right on top of removals which I think will be soon.

I negotiated it down when I found out how cheap storage had got locally. Another place offered me a room 25% bigger for a certain price, so I mentioned it to the guy who manages my facility. Not only did he match it size for size but he went lower, as he has quite a few rooms empty.

Van hire, Transit type, £50 to £80 per day if I recall correctly.

If you have plenty of storage places around, play them off against each other. They are VERY willing usually to work out a deal like two months free if you sign up for six.

chickmug

Thanks not_loaded

Very helpful:beer:

not_loaded

I forgot to mention that the costs are very disproportionate for the size of room, so you might want to start with (and negotiate on) a bigger room.

I was thinking of retaining a bit of storage for my two daughters and asked about their small rooms. They were six times the price (like for like) on square footage. I decided not to bother as 1) too expensive, and 2) they would store their garbage there forever and never go back to look at it.

The advantage of going bigger is that, like for like, it’s cheaper, and also, when you find you got it wrong and need more space, you don’t have to shift it all.