Storage facilities are springing up all over the country, on the outer fringes of towns, and wherever enough cheap space in cities can be found. They’re a major growth industry, and if you don’t use them yourself, you might be asking why. They actually a range of extremely useful services to different kinds of customers, and finding out some of the ways you can use storage facilities to make your life easier, or even help your business turn a profit might help you to realise not only why they’re so successful but that now is the time for you to look into renting a storage facility.

Moving House

The most obvious use for a storage facility is to make a house move easier. Just because it’s well known, you shouldn’t discount it: putting some of your bulkier items in storage can help make moving day much more manageable.

Also, if you’re moving out of one house and don’t have another immediately lined up, you may want to put everything except a single suitcase of essentials into storage until you’ve signed a contract for a permanent home. Sofa surfing is on the rise, especially among those in their 20s, and finding a cheap storage facility is a safer alternative to storing possessions with a variety of friends across the city, in damp cellars and cupboards.

Some storage facilities also offer pick up and drop off of your stored items, so you can use them as a partial removal service as well, making the move to your new home even easier!

Business Options

If you’re running a small business it’s a waste of resources to take a long term rent on big warehouse space. While you might need lots of storage when you’re at peak capacity, at quieter times it’s a waste of resources to have warehouse space you’re not using. For seasonal businesses, finding the right storage solution is one of the most important problems to solve.

Storage facilities offer a perfect solution to this: notice periods are short, and there’s a great deal of variety in the capacity of units available, meaning you can shift to one that meets your needs quickly, maintaining the agility that’s vital for your business’ success, and at a budget that works for you.

If any of this has helped to pique your interest in how you can make storage facilities work for you and you’re looking for storage London has plenty to offer the curious.