Storing Clutter and etc

baxtor

HI

I am planning to move home within the next couple of months. I just have a one bed flat and am moving nearby. I dread having to move everything in one go so was thinking of hiring a storage facility so I could move stuff in there at my leisure.

There are two storage facilities close by. One is indoor and heated and the other is outdoor in a type of large steel structure. The indoor one has limited opening hours and is more expensive than the outdoor one which is open for access 24/7

I was wondering if anyone has any experience of using storage facilities and could give any advice. For example, do things deteriorate quickly when left in an unheated steel shed or will they be ok if they are well protected with plastic wrapping and boxed up?

Thanks

googler

Small items that you're concerned about can be wrapped in cling film, further placed in ziploc bags along with silicia gel sachets, boxed up, and have the boxes sealed with parcel tape. You could then wrap the boxes in bin bags and seal them.

If that doesn't stop the environment getting to them......

Not so appropriate for larger items, though.

G_M

It really all depends on

* what is being stored: soft furnishings? pots&pans? paper? tables /chairs?
* how it is protected (see googler)
* what the weather is like
* how long? a week? a month? 6 months?

Though to be honest, there is a limit to how much clutter you can have in a 1 bed flat.... Are you moving to a smaller place?

edit: if you are just thinking of a week, compare the price of a van hire for a week and just keep your clutter in the van while you sort out the new flat...

baxtor

G_M wrote: »

It really all depends on

* what is being stored: soft furnishings? pots&pans? paper? tables /chairs?
* how it is protected (see googler)
* what the weather is like
* how long? a week? a month? 6 months?

Though to be honest, there is a limit to how much clutter you can have in a 1 bed flat.... Are you moving to a smaller place?

edit: if you are just thinking of a week, compare the price of a van hire for a week and just keep your clutter in the van while you sort out the new flat...

I doubt there would be any soft furnishings mostly kitchen items and a freezer plus storage cabinets (plastic), old computer equipment, suit cases, clothes, it goes on and on. Past experience tells me that there are going to be innumerable trips in the car and a lot of stress.

I was thinking of hiring for maybe two months.

rpc

Personally, I'd go for the indoor option. We did when we hired one and didn't find the opening hours an issue.

Pack it all up, hire a van. It won't cost that much and will save you loads of time and stress. We loaded ours with cars (several cars, several runs), emptied it with a Luton van. I wish I'd had the Luton when we loaded it!

vivatifosi

We did the same when we moved. Clutter went in storage for a longer period due to viewings, then stayed there for a couple of months while we got up straight. In our case we had room for the clutter at new place as it was a bigger house, otherwise I'd have looked to sort and get rid.

We chose an indoor storage place. It's nicer to go to and more secure. If I wanted to sort through some boxes, I could go and do it there, which in an outdoor facility wouldn't have been as straightforward. We never had any problems and the people there were always very helpful.

Moving was really straightforward too, as the only things that moved on the day were things we really needed. It was about as unstressful as you could imagine.

baxtor

vivatifosi wrote: »

We did the same when we moved. Clutter went in storage for a longer period due to viewings, then stayed there for a couple of months while we got up straight. In our case we had room for the clutter at new place as it was a bigger house, otherwise I'd have looked to sort and get rid.

We chose an indoor storage place. It's nicer to go to and more secure. If I wanted to sort through some boxes, I could go and do it there, which in an outdoor facility wouldn't have been as straightforward. We never had any problems and the people there were always very helpful.

Moving was really straightforward too, as the only things that moved on the day were things we really needed. It was about as unstressful as you could imagine.

Brilliant! That is what I am hoping for.

ognum

I looked into storage options when we had a kitchen extension and didn't want the whole of the rest of e house full of clutter.

In the end I found some reasonably priced, dry, secure garages for rent that worked perfectly were cheap and I could get my car right up to for loading and unloading, just a thought!

lincroft1710

Slightly left field suggestion.

Think very carefully, do you really, really need all this stuff? Moving to a new place is an opportunity to declutter.

ognum

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Slightly left field suggestion.

Think very carefully, do you really, really need all this stuff? Moving to a new place is an opportunity to declutter.

Good point!

pleasedelete

Just bin it? Or sell it on eBay. If you have that much stuff in a 1 bed flat that you need storage why don't you look at the hoarding and decluttering threads on old style money saving. The pictures a few pages in on the hoarding will make you want to get rid.

Plastic storage boxes are the curse- they just make you keep crap- its in boxes so you see it as tidy- it is still clutter.