Where do household items and furniture go during a renovation?
The simplest answer is a storage unit outside the home for the duration of the work: furniture and rugs, the contents of your kitchen and cupboards, electronics, books and clothes. There your belongings are safe from dust, paint and construction moisture, and your contractors have a clear run. These jobs make temporary storage particularly worthwhile:
From a single room to a full refurbishment
- Painting & wallpapering: With no furniture, pictures or rugs in the room you can reach every corner, skip most of the masking and finish faster.
- Sanding & laying floors: Sanding parquet creates fine dust that settles everywhere. The room has to be completely empty anyway.
- Fitting a new kitchen: It is not only the units that have to go, but the crockery, food and appliances too. A kitchen refit rarely takes just a weekend.
- Renovating a bathroom: The washing machine, cabinets and linen need somewhere to go while tiles and fittings are replaced.
- Full refurbishment & modernisation: When the whole flat becomes a building site, the entire household moves into storage for weeks or months.
- Staying put while you renovate: If you live in the flat during the work, you otherwise push your things from room to room. In a storage unit they are finally out of the way.
- Letting & change of ownership: Renovating between two tenancies or before a sale. The furnishings wait until the property is ready.
- Trades & construction firms: Businesses store with us too, from building materials and tools to furniture held on behalf of a client.
