At the end of the year 2014, there were 48,500 storage units out there in the country, according to the Huffington Post. That's a whopping 21 feet of self-storage available for every person in the population. If you've decided you need to take advantage of self-storage services, it is actually best if you hire moving companies to help you transition your items into the unit. Here's a look at why you should hire professional movers to get your belongings to a newly rented unit.
You can use the moving truck to determine what size storage you need.
One of the hardest things about renting a storage unit is determining how big of a unit you need. It's hard to picture how much space multiple items will require if they are all mingled together in a small space. When you hire a moving company with a truck, they will likely show up at your property with a truck that is pulling a trailer of a certain size.
For example, the moving truck may be anywhere from 10 to 26 feet long with a certain floor space. By seeing how much room your items take up in the truck, you can better judge what size unit you will need.
You can avoid making multiple trips to the storage unit and save time.
When the movers come to your property to load up the moving truck, you can probably get everything you want to store in one swoop instead of having to load only what you can to haul to the unit on your own truck or in your vehicle. Because you can take everything to the unit at one time, you will save on fuel costs to get your items into storage and save yourself a lot of time and trouble in the process.
You can prevent items from being damaged in transit to storage.
Your grandmother's wardrobe, that expensive artwork you picked up at auction, or the lawnmower you don't need for the season—these are common examples of items that are stored in storage units. Hauling these things to and from storage personally can mean they are at a higher risk of being damaged.
For instance, if you are hauling a large piece of wooden furniture on an open truck bed or trailer, it could be exposed to rain or snow before it arrives at the facility. In a moving truck, the items will be situated in a way that they are protected, handled carefully by the movers, and protected in an enclosure.
Share17 September 2018
Every home is filled with items that may or may not be necessary, and my home is no different. I started having problems with the sheer volume of things in my home a few years back, and so I decided to move some things into a storage unit. I didn't know what to store at first, so a friend of mine had the great idea to help me to rent a storage unit. She worked with me to identify different things that would work well for my lifestyle, and I stored everything else. Check out this blog to find out how to store smarter every day.