Moving out due to covid. Storage facilities for belongings

zpargo

Hi 
Is bystored a reputable and reliable company for storage of belongings? Not many reviews on trust pilot; about 11 % bad reviews, lot more people go with big yellow as lots of reviews. Bystored are due to come pick up my things tm but now things I should have gone for big yellow .
Thx

bradders1983

"Moving out due to Covid"? How bizarre. Why?

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bradders1983 said:

"Moving out due to Covid"? How bizarre. Why?

Could be for example that OP can't pay rent on a flat, and is moving back in with family who don't have room for his grand piano.

zpargo

Poster_586329 said:

bradders1983 said:

"Moving out due to Covid"? How bizarre. Why?

Could be for example that OP can't pay rent on a flat, and is moving back in with family who don't have room for his grand piano.

Sorry for the delay. I ended up going for big yellow. 
Reason is that I am clinically extremely vulnerable to Covid and don't want to live with flat mates constantly going to work / outside in case I catch Covid. More a trust issue. And yes moving in with family for a few months will help me save some money on rent.

ToxicWomble

Jeremy535897 said:

tacpot12 said:

unforeseen said:

Get a grip! There is no reason (unless you are in Tier 3 and been contacted about that) that you need to go to such extreme lengths. 
I lot of CEV, me included, are back at work as normal and just using sensible precautions. My wife carried on working all the way through and she works in a care home where risks were higher.

You do realise that your family are not going to lock themselves away to pander to your misplaced anxiety? 

I think it is Unforeseen who needs to get a grip here. The country is in the grip of a life-threatening virus that is easily transmitted by social contact. If you are vulnerable, and don't want to die a horrible death, you should take the precautions you propose to protect yourself and others. Covd-19 is not a seasonal flu; the mortality rate in the UK is 3.7%! This means that unless people take precautions, and until the vaccines are fully rolled out, upto 2.4 million people could die in the UK.

It only takes the breakdown of someone's normal precautions to expose you, and as people begin to let their guard down, it is increasingly likely that people will let their guard down. If you don't trust your flatmates to take all possible precautions to protect your health, then moving out is a sensible and proportionate response. 

Your 3.7% I assume comes from deaths (60,617) as a percentage of cases (1.69 million). The problems with using this simple measure include:

• it doesn't account for people who are asymptomatic, or who have mild symptoms and just self isolate without a test. These people raise the total of cases but not deaths
• it assumes that positive tests are 100% accurate. They may actually exaggerate the number of real cases because of false positives
• it assumes that every death where a positive coronavirus test happened within the previous 28 days is solely attributable to coronavirus. About 95% of deaths involve people with other pre-existing health problems

Exactly - people spreading  incorrect data/stats really needs to stop - it helps no one and ultimately causes more damage

ToxicWomble

Aranyani said:

unforeseen said:

Get a grip! There is no reason (unless you are in Tier 3 and been contacted about that) that you need to go to such extreme lengths. 
I lot of CEV, me included, are back at work as normal and just using sensible precautions. My wife carried on working all the way through and she works in a care home where risks were higher.

You do realise that your family are not going to lock themselves away to pander to your misplaced anxiety? 

Why is it any skin off your nose?

Likewise ??

Aranyani

ToxicWomble said:

Aranyani said:

unforeseen said:

Get a grip! There is no reason (unless you are in Tier 3 and been contacted about that) that you need to go to such extreme lengths. 
I lot of CEV, me included, are back at work as normal and just using sensible precautions. My wife carried on working all the way through and she works in a care home where risks were higher.

You do realise that your family are not going to lock themselves away to pander to your misplaced anxiety? 

Why is it any skin off your nose?

Likewise ??

Uh, I didn't pass comment.  Its nothing to do with me.  

Smashingitnow

The poor guy just asked for reviews of a storage company, y'all. 

yksi

As a lucky sharer myself, I completely empathise. Among my housemates are an elderly lady about to have a hip replacement, a selfish **** who regularly invites her loud boyfriend over and disturbs the whole house and leaves our shared areas filthy, a lady with mental health issues who simply can't/won't isolate from her many friends, plus not forgetting Guy Who Can't Wash His Hands After The Bathroom. As far as I can tell, the hip lady is the only one attempting to isolate. The others are all in contact with dog-knows-how-many, and trying to pretend that hip lady is actually safely isolating in preparation for her surgery is ridiculous. And she is a reasonably healthy lady. But imagine she was also immune suppressed?

OP has made the decision that they are at less risk by living with family, and we don't know either the flatmates or the family.

Now maybe we could actually address the question?

I haven't personally used either company but I do know that many positive reviews are faked or nagged or written by friends & family, and that unhappy customers often yell much louder than the company deserves. 89% happy customers is still a pretty decent rate. Try not to worry and all the best for your move.

GDB2222

The incidence of COVID is 10 times higher in some parts of the country than others. 

The overall population statistics tell us very little about the risk for people in the CEV group.

The fact that one CEV person has gone back to work and managed okay tells us nothing about the risk for others. As a counter example, I live in a road with 18 houses. One neighbour died. Another’s son was in hospital but managed to pull through. I know two other people who have been hospitalised and pulled through. One of those is still convalescent months later. 

unforeseen

The current advice is for CEVs to go back to work for the majority of the country. Lots probably have because there is no longer any meaningful support for them.

The overall population statistics tell us very little about the risk for people in the CEV group.

Because nobody is breaking the statistics down in a fashion to extract that information. The also don't say anything about the vulnerable group either. 

The level of risk in the CEV group will be variable depending on which main condition the person has and what co-morbidities are also present.