Ensuring Complete Safety Of Your Items: Storage To Safety

While it is important to choose a storage and moving company that offers 100% security, it is also vital to take some necessary precaution yourself. In this article, we will learn how to protect your things from fire mishaps.

Do not store items that are susceptible to catch fire. This refers to items like paint and gasoline which are highly inflammable, strictly prohibited to be allowed to store in storage units.

Another catalyst that supports fire instances (and a lot of them) are slimy bags, many of which are carelessly dumped into the dryers. Storing oily rags or slimy bags in storage units is inviting fire mishap. It’s because these bags easily catch fire amidst increasing temperatures (which is a common aspect of storage units). Another important thing to remember is to make sure that your heater’s plug is disconnected from the extension cord before keeping in the storage house.

Conclusion-
Refrain from smoking around your storage company premises. It’s because the slightest fume can alight a good portion of the facility, especially if it is surrounded by grass and shrubs. Get in touch with your storage manager at once whenever you smell non-compliance of rules. Contact us for affordable self storage units in Dubai.

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How To Safeguard Your Storage Unit From Fire Related Consequences?

Storage houses are undoubtedly the safest havens for keeping your precious valuables safe and secure, delegating the monotonous responsibility. However, there lie certain responsibilities on the tenants or the customers too in terms of what they are planning to store in the storage unit.

Today you can find various storage providers offering storage solutions to procure everything from cans to cars, there are certain limits which benefit the customers only. They even benefit the storage managers by drawing lines thus preventing fire related consequences and resulting damages and losses incurred by both parties. In this article we will tell show you the red and green signal in terms of things allowed to keep in storage warehouses and those that are prohibited.

Self-storage units have stipulations in terms of what one can store and cannot to prevent incidents like fire mishaps. In order you stay and your valuables stay protected from fire we recommend the following rules that ought to be followed.

Prohibitions
Storage warehouses and managers when on side encourage people to keep their valuables in safe units, they also on the other side do not entertain materials that are hazardous and not suitable for storage. These include combustible or highly inflammable liquid substances like paint and gasoline. Alcohol is another commodity that falls in the list of no-goers in the storage warehouses. These substances are highly volatile. They ooze out vapours that can catch fire easily with the help of smallest spark at length.

Considering the above fact, be careful when you plan to move your lawnmower to a self-storage unit. Before moving, make it entirely gasoline free to prevent major fire havoc.

Another catalyst that supports fire instances (and a lot of them) are slimy bags, many of which are carelessly dumped into the dryers. Storing oily rags or slimy bags in storage units is inviting fire mishap. It’s because these bags easily catch fire amidst increasing temperatures (which is a common aspect of storage units). Another important thing to remember is to make sure that your heater’s plug is disconnected from the extension cord before keeping in the storage house.

Conclusion-
Do not smoke in the vicinity of storage warehouses as the smallest spark or fume is enough to lit up the facilities. Go to the concerned manager immediately on witnessing non-alliance of such rules by anyone. Visit Du-store for your self storage requirements.

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Attention: Is Your Self Storage Service Provider Deficient?

The answer might be a yes or no. In this blog, you will come across through a real illustration. It is about how a self storage provider lacking in even one salient aspect leads to a great blunder. After reading this blog, you will become alert while choosing the right storage provider.

This is an incident which occurred at Kepp’s Self Storage in New Zealand:

On April 4, 2015; there erupted a fire at the self-storage unit. This resulted in the loss for many people who had stored their belongings with utmost faith at the self storage unit.

Let’s see what the storage facility lacked:

Adequate sprinklers and relative advanced technology-
It is true that like a house, any self-storage unit cannot be immune to calamities like fire, floods or tornadoes. However, the installation of necessary measures greatly helps to prevent losses and gain control over the situation.

Like in this illustration, the self storage provider lacked the sprinklers. Kepp’s buildings did not have sprinklers; the presence of which would have prevented the extent of loss. However, today even sprinklers are not enough and you need storage providers who are equipped with advanced protective gears.

What to look for in a self storage provider to be covered against such losses?

As a customer, you must-
Ensure the self storage provider has a proper insurance clause to redeem the losses of any customer during such situations. After all is not the mistake of customers for any calamity faced by the storage unit. So why should you face losses?

Summing it up-

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