What Can You Use Self Storage Units For?

What Can You Use Self Storage Units For?

Self Storage units seem to be all about one thing – keeping things that you have no space for in your own home. However, is that really all self storage units are good for? After all, what self storage companies do is provide a space to people. It’s advertised in a way to give people ideas of what to keep within the four walls and security of the warehouses, but we’d like to show you that there’s more that you can do!

Keep Things

It would not be a self storage unit if you didn’t use it to (guess what?!) STORE THINGS! Yes! But besides the commonly kept clothes and books and documents, did you know that we have all sorts of other amazing things that have come through our hallways? We’ve had customers that have stored boats and vintage bikes and all sorts of interesting and rare items. In fact, a small handful of our units are being used to store vast collections too!

If you follow docu-dramas on the television, you may have heard of Storage Wars and Auction hunters. The premise of the show is that when people miss payments on their self storage units, the items within are auctioned away to the highest bidder after the grace period for late payments are up. Not to give away any spoilers to the show, but you’d really be shocked at what weird and fantastic things some people have kept in their self storage units!

Make-shift music studio

Our self storage unit spaces are also good for budding musicians. Generally in the self storage warehouse, we’ve got quiet surroundings as we rarely see customers coming by to pick up their items directly at our facility. The acoustics of a container are wonderful for holding a jam session or practice session with your friends so that you can get your group ready for a musical performance

Make-shift office space

For the same reason that the self storage unit makes a good music studio, it is true also for business owners too! if you have a small headcount or work as a sole proprietor of a business. The serenity helps you to concentrate on what you need to do with daily operations and it makes a perfect environment for doing work. Of course we would advise that you check with the self storage managers to allocate you to a quiet corner away from those budding musicians we were just talking about.

Exercise and Equipment Hold

There are a lot of community exercise groups springing up, least of all is the Cross Fit phenomenon that has groups of people congregating to egg each other on and keep exercising and staying fit. Many a times, these fitness groups combine their resources to take rent out on a space to exercise and also the exercise equipment and paraphernalia that they use (such as weight, medicine balls, mats, etc). The larger self storage units are perfect solutions to the dilemma of finding that exercise space for groups like these.

Super Cheap Self Storage Sydney doesn’t offer storage in fixed units, ours are portable units. Providing solutions for people in need of storage is what we do best.

Climate Control And Regular Self Storage

Climate Control And Regular Self Storage

Climate control is the latest in the range of additional features which are available to you to keep your items in tiptop shape when you put them into safe-keeping at your local self-storage facility. But what exactly is the big deal with it? We look at the 2 most important factors that you need to consider when looking at climate control for your items – the TYPE of item and the COST of storing with climate control.

What items are you storing?

Now this is the most important factor to consider when you’re picking out a self storage facility. The items that you’re keeping may be determined by the climate that you live in – obviously when you have seasons of nature to contend with, the type of things you own will reflect the different temperatures you have to deal with in those hot or cold months. When we are talking about temperature sensitive items, obviously a bit of climate control may be in order to provide better protection in the long run.

Other items that may require a little bit more control in the storage environment are valuable items like furs or wines, or paintings and other art objects. Humidity and spores from moulds can be present in our environment in microscopic amounts, but they can still affect the items within storage. Climate control can limit and even freeze the effects of these outside effects on your things.

If you’re a business, then you should definitely look at climate controlled storage to protect your assets which may have cost your company a pretty penny. The more valuable or difficult the item is to come by, the higher the likelihood that climate controlled storage units will be worthwhile for you to rent.

What’s your budget?

It’s fairly obvious that more protection for your items are going to mean increased costs of storage and the truth is, you really need to have a think about whether the extra protection is worth it! Again, this boils down to factor #1 – which is what the item you’re storing is. If you’ve got expensive items going into storage, then you may want to spend the little bit extra to ensure that the value of your items are kept as it was when it was going into storage.

If you’re a little short in the money department, there are other things that you can consider when it comes to storing your items safely without having to resort to climate control and that includes dehumidifier and vacuum-sealing your textiles. You can also ensure that items are well-cleaned and treated or prepared for long-term storage before you seal up the self storage unit!

Just as an afterthought, it’s also important to quickly think about how long you expect your items to be in storage before you take them out. The longer they are in storage without anybody checking up on them should give you the indication whether you could spot decay and damage early or whether you have to take measures to keep things fresh until someone does come to open the self-storage unit up.

At the end of the day, whether or not you decide to take on a climate controlled self storage unit, do remember that you can still take on some content insurance! Never discount the importance of taking the precaution to protect your investments or your items from damage or unforeseen circumstances. Despite the best of care that can be provided for your things, accidents and acts of God can still happen, so better to be safe than sorry!