Selecting The Right Kind Of Storage Facility

The demand for moving and storage facilities is rising and they have become a vital aspect of relocation and moving processes. People also consider storage facilities as the right thing when they are going out for a holiday. There are many storage facilities online, but which one to choose? Depends on your needs.

Have a look at the various types of storage facilities and decide which type suits your needs.

1. Indoor 
Indoor storage units are similar to bank locker units. You can rent one or multiple units, where the usual size is about 6 by 6 feet.

2. Outdoor 
Outdoor storage units are used to store vehicles like cars and yachts. The usual size is similar to that of a garage.

3. Long term
Long term storage units are especially designed to store valuable items that require climate control conditions to stay undamaged. They can be precious paintings, furniture and so on.

4. Short term
These storage units can be rented on a short term basis such as during relocation, while revamping your office or when going for a short getaway.

5. Climate controlled 
As discussed before in the long term storage section, climate controlled services are best to preserve art works which need special conditions to sustain their original shape and form. They are expensive but offer absolute safety to your valuable belongings.

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4 Effective Ways To Secure Your Self Storage Facility

Is you storage warehouse strong enough to entice quality tenants and frighten off the goons? As per SpareFoot’s consumer survey, they see security as the second most important factor in choosing self-storage behind price and ahead of place, access hours, hygiene and friendliness.


That being said, it becomes crucial to take necessary steps to ensure you send burglars away from your self-storage warehouse. They are low cost and yet effective. The steps are as follows-

1. Surveillance:
Stroll around to spot possible access areas in and out of your storage house that go unnoticed by you but not by thieves! It is always beneficial to get it done by a security professional that can easily pinpoint weak spots and eliminate them with keypads, cameras, alarm systems and so on.

2. Access control:
Storage facilities often provide 24-hour access to their customers. However, remember that thieves love 24-hour access too. Watchfulness over who comes and goes using means like keypad at the gate where customers type in a PIN is a handy move. In this way suspicious moves can hardly go unnoticed.

You should limit gate hours. Also change customer PIN numbers every couple months as codes are highly contagious amongst friends and relatives. “Provide customers with disc locks or locks that are unbreakable,” said a renowned crime investigation officer in Dubai.

3. Partner with law enforcement agencies:
Partnering with the strongest law enforcement agencies sends a message that your facility isn’t an easy mark thus inviting more tenants and no thieves or mishaps.

4. Management:
Does your management give an impression of a laid back evening by scattering weeds next to your storage warehouse ground? “It’s an environmental clue thieves never miss to see that management is dormant!”

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