Safe as houses

Your off to the self storage unit to store your worldly goods or part thereof and everything looks fine.
Or does it?

90% of us before we go to bed will check that the front and back door is locked, all the lights are off and some even take certain plugs out. This nightly walkround to ensure everything is safe, sends you to bed with a secure feeling. Although if a spider coughs you will sit bolt upright in a cold sweat assuming that it is a gang of marauding thieves, intent on, well at this point your imagination has gone way beyond the realms of reality. Half an hour later clutching loo roll to lob at said gang if they do make it upstairs, you lie back down thinking, well they've probably gone by now. Cut to the morning and have to explain why you are clutching loo roll. Good luck!

All I would ask is that you use such diligence when selecting where to place your possessions, furniture in Self Storage etc.  We have already established that you will defend your goods and chattels (in mind anyway) to the death, let's extend this.

You have the shipping container sites, now the clue to avoidance in is the title, "shipping container." They are designed o be used short term on big boats to bring you goods from far flung corners of the world. They are not conducive to long term storage. They have a tendency to get damp, I have suffered first hand at this and the damp sits on whatever you have put in there.

Security at these places tends not to be great, I know of one site in Cambridge that has had the same universal access code for the past 4 years at least, I know because I check it every now and again!
The camera on these sights generally are dummy or point in one direction only and aren't terribly effective in the dark.
Lighting is more often than not a single security light activated by you performing star jumps in front of it and then having to repeat the process every 30 seconds. Great for keeping fit but fairly useless for illumination and safety.

Not all self storage facilities are like that.

Safebox for example has over 600 indoor, individual units. They each have an alarm which is deactivated by you putting in a customer unique access code, you have your own padlock on the door and the lights in the corridors are activated by motion sensors and they stay on! You have to go through a compound gate, roller door and sliding door. Each time you must enter your code.

In short, we do it properly. Clean, dry and secure, just the way it should be.

So next time you think of using Self Storage, remember the things that go bump in the night and how much you value your posessions.

Need more space?
Have some of ours!

http://www.thesafebox.co.uk/