Design and build

Your Self Store in Cannock

By Angus on February 27th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Your Self Store in Cannock

How a new self storage company in Staffordshire created its customer base, and kept it loyal.

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It’s Not Easy Being Green – But It Can Be Done!

By admin on January 4th, 2011 | 3 Comments

It’s Not Easy Being Green – But It Can Be Done!

How to be more environmentally friendly is a challenge facing all businesses these days, not just us in the storage industry. Daniel Beer of The Store Room, whose Manchester self storage site were the winners of the storage.co.uk environmental awareness award, explains what his company has been doing to try and keep things green.

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Henfield self storage – the best value storage in south-west London?

By Angus on December 21st, 2010 | 1 Comment

Henfield self storage – the best value storage in south-west London?

Andy Vaillant is an employee at the Wimbledon branch of Henfield Self Storage, which contains about 800 self storage units. This storage centre is interesting because it used to be a very large car repair facility: in order to convert the building to self storage the owners gutted it and purpose-built storage units inside.

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Boat storage: the Boatel and dry stacks

By Antony on November 17th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Boat storage: the Boatel and dry stacks

When I was in the USA in the 1990s I visited the Lynnhaven Marine Boatel and was impressed by this ingenious solution to a problem. Then disaster struck…

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The Storage.co.uk Award for Website Design

By David on November 9th, 2010 | No Comments

The Storage.co.uk Award for Website Design

For most self storage companies, the internet now accounts for a significant proportion of their new customers. This has made it vital to have a website that is attractive, well-designed and easy to use ‒ and it is these qualities that have distinguished the winners of the Storage.co.uk Award for Website Design.

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The Storage.co.uk Award for Storage Facility Design

By Antony on October 28th, 2010 | No Comments

The Storage.co.uk Award for Storage Facility Design

The Storage.co.uk Award for Storage Facility Design was introduced as part of our campaign to improve architectural design in the self storage industry. A number of companies have done the self storage industry proud in this field, from which five clear winners emerged.

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Safestore opening a new self storage facility almost every three months!

By Angus on September 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Safestore opening a new self storage facility almost every three months!

Safestore are set on a steady expansion policy and have almost 100 self storage facilities in the UK – a target they’ve said they plan to reach during 2011.

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Self storage offices

By Antony on August 31st, 2010 | 2 Comments

Self storage offices

An increasing number of the larger self storage companies are including offices-for-rent in their new-build facilities. And many customers are satisfied.

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Self Storage in Dundee

By David on August 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Self Storage in Dundee

Dundee has a surpisingly large self storage industry, for several reasons

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Containerised self storage

By Angus on August 1st, 2010 | 3 Comments

Containerised self storage

Generally, renting a containerised storage space is cheaper than using a self storage unit in a warehouse. However, what you get differs in several ways

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