Maximising The Space In Your Self Storage Room

Feb. 9, 2011 - PRLog -- With thought, preparation and careful stacking it’s amazing how much you can get into your self storage unit. Here’s a few trade secrets to help you save space and money.

1. Dismantle, Dismantle, Dismantle

Dismantle any flat pack furniture that you can. This will not only help you to save space in your storage unit but make the furniture easier to get out of your house and transport.

2. Big Things First

Put your largest, heaviest items in your storage unit first for example sofas, white goods from the kitchen, wardrobes, chests of drawers etc. These items will form a base from which you can work forwards and upwards with lighter, more fragile items.

3. Save Floor Space – Use The Volume

Storage units are generally quite tall and if you put an item like a sofa flat on the floor you will waste most of the space above the sofa as you will not be able to stack much on the sofa without damaging it. A better idea is to put a dining table, a few sets of chests of drawer, or a washing machine and tumble drier on the floor first then place the sofa on top of that. This will still leave you space under the table for example where you could put chairs or more boxes.

The same applies to anything else that is an odd shape or which is fragile and you can’t stack much on (e.g. bicycles, dining table chairs etc.). Store these items up as high as is safely possible.

You should also stand up items like mattresses on their end rather than on their side. Most sofa’s will also store well on their end. Always make the most of your unit’s height!

4. Use The Furniture You’re Storing To Store

Once you have loaded an item like an empty wardrobe, chest or trunk into your storage unit, make use of the space inside it by filling with boxes or small items.

5. Box Clever

Try to use boxes with a similar footprint as these will stack together much better. Make sure you load boxes to capacity and when you stack the boxes, put the heaviest ones on the bottom and the lighter or more fragile boxes on the top.

Find Out More About Self Storage

For more information about self storage, and tips on moving, packing and storing contact Extra Room Self Storage or visit their website - http://www.extraroomselfstorage.co.uk/. Extra Room has storage units in all shapes and sizes providing storage for Nuneaton (http://www.extraroomselfstorage.co.uk/storage-nuneaton.html), Hinckley (http://www.extraroomselfstorage.co.uk/storage-hinckley.html), Coventry, Tamworth,  and across the Midlands.

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Extra Room Self Storage are an established family business, offering clean, dry, secure storage at unbeatable value. Our storage facility is easily accessible for the whole of Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and the Midlands.