Storing domestic effects, whether short-term or long-term, is becoming more and more popular in the UK. Here are just some of the situations where it can be useful.

• Thinking of putting your home on the market? Add thousands to its value by storing your clutter with us for as little as £50 a month!
• Your old home is sold, and you're waiting to move into the new one. Short-term storage is the answer, and is a popular way to avoid breaking a moving chain.
• If your chain falls apart, short-term storage with us means you can still move when you'd planned to move.
• Temporarily running out of space? Store some of your household effects until there's room again.
• Going on an overseas assignment? And perhaps you'd like to let your UK home, but you don't want to risk tenants damaging your furniture? Answer: let your home unfurnished, and put your furniture etc into store while you are away.
• Redecorating, renovating, or having the builders in, and nowhere to put the contents of the rooms being worked on? Put the contents into short-term storage.
• Assigned to work in the UK, and you find that not all of your shipped furniture will fit into your assignment accommodation? (UK houses being typically smaller than, say, US ones.) Answer: store it with us.
• You need storage for a student's effects during a gap year.
• You need to store an elderly relative's effects because they are moving into smaller or sheltered accommodation.
• You need to store some large and/or awkwardly shaped items such as pianos and tall cabinets. Let us look after it for you as "Loose Storage".

Types of storage available

We offer three types of storage for private clients:

• Palletised containers for regular storage
• Palletised containers for "personal storage".
• Loose storage

Containers

For more information about the containers we offer, see our Facilities page.

Loose Storage

For items that cannot easily be fitted into our containers, we also offer the option of loose storage within the warehouse. This is suitable for items such as pianos, tall cupboards, and other large and/or awkwardly shaped items.

The Process

1. Contact us to discuss your requirements. Either phone us or email us your phone number.
2. We arrange to visit your home (or other premises) to view the items that need to be stored, to confirm the storage period, and to check on the amount of container or loose storage space that will be required. As part of this consultation we will discuss who should provide the transport. You can make your own arrangements for loading and delivering the goods to our warehouse if you wish. However, we strongly recommend having Bradbeers provide the transport. This avoids double-handling, and it also means that you avoid the possibility of injuring yourself—or damaging items—by trying to load the goods yourself. Loading goods is a far more skilled job than most people realise!
3. Within a few days, we provide a quotation for the cost. The quotation will show the price, the storage period, and the projected date for picking up the goods from your premises.
4. If you agree the quotation, then on the appointed day (if we are providing the transport) a Bradbeers van arrives to collect the goods. In most cases the van will bring an empty container; the exception is when the goods are to be "loose stored". The crew load the goods into the container and seal it; or load the loose goods onto the van. As they load, they record an inventory of all the items concerned. When loading is complete, they ask you to sign the inventory, and give you a copy.
5. The goods are transferred to our warehouse to be stored for the stipulated period.
6. At the end of the stipulated period, after confirming the transport date with you, we transport the container or loose goods back to your premises.
   If you want to visit your storage container, this is fine; just give us at least a working day's notice of your visit, so we can ensure that the container is an a safely accessible position.

Costs

Due to the low-cost nature of container storage, we are cheaper than specialist self-storage operators in the normal course of events.